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A Black Panther who spent the past 30 years behind bars for his role in the deadly Brinks armored car robbery and for trying to kill six police officers during a Queens shootout was paroled Tuesday from an upstate New York prison, DNAinfo reports. SEE ALSO: Darren Wilson: Michael Brown Looked Like ‘A Demon’ The man, […]
Johnathan Herring, 32, faces felony second-degree assault, felony domestic assault and felony terroristic threats charges after allegedly striking his unidentified girlfriend over the head with a pistol inside of a Lutheran church in Jordan, Minnesota, My Fox 9 reports. Herring fled from the church, which also serves as a homeless shelter, after the incident in a stolen car but was apprehended late […]
Brian Jones (pictured) is behind bars and facing charges of trafficking for sexual servitude and two counts of raping a child. Jones is accused of pimping out a 12-year-old girl whose ferocious father and his trusty baseball bat, wound up saving from his clutches according to WMC News. When the unidentified father learned that his daughter was allegedly having sex […]
Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson testified before a St. Louis County grand jury that unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown looked like a “demon” during their fatal confrontation over the summer, according to transcripts released Monday. RELATED: Darren Wilson’s Injuries After He Killed Michael Brown [PHOTOS] He also said he did not believe “non-lethal” options would be […]
After weeks of reviewing evidence and hearing testimony, Yahoo News is reporting that a St. Louis County grand jury has reached a decision on whether to charge Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson (pictured) in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The 12-member panel, which convened Aug. 20, was asked to decide if there is probable […]
A top St. Louis County, Mo., administrator has raised questions about a St. Louis prosecutor’s pledge to obtain a court order to release evidence reviewed by a grand jury in the Ferguson, Mo., case if officer Darren Wilson (pictured right) is not indicted, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. RELATED: NewsOne Minute: Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Makes […]
Randy Wiggins (pictured) spent almost a year and a half at the Fulton County Jail for a crime he did not commit. Wiggins was reportedly booked under the name of Randy Williams, an at-large convicted child molester, and spent 525 days in prison hell being targeted and tortured by other inmates for despicable crimes they wrongly […]
As a grand jury weighs his fate, Ferguson, Mo., Police Officer Darren Wilson (pictured front), who fatally shot unarmed Michael Brown, is in the final stages of negotiations with city officials to resign, CNN reports. The grand jury hearing evidence is preparing to meet Friday for what might be its final session. A decision on […]
Byron Scott (pictured), the son of prominent DeKalb County, Georgia Judge Mark Anthony Scott, was indicted on aggravated assault charges stemming from an incident that took place last year involving 2 women who allege he assaulted them after a fender bender, according to WSB-TV. A police report claims that Scott and an unnamed mother and daughter got into a minor traffic […]
A Kentucky fire chief is under scrutiny after video surfaced of him using the n-word at the scene of a recent traffic accident, the New York Daily News reports. Southeast Bullitt, Ky., Fire Chief Julius Hatfield, whose department is being audited by the state over allegations of financial mismanagement, can be heard using the n-word […]
A lawyer for the family of Vonderrit Myers Jr. has released the name of the White off-duty St. Louis, Mo., police officer named in the teen’s fatal shooting, saying that his social media comments reveal political and racial biases that weigh on the shooting, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. RELATED: NewsOne Exclusive: Vonderrit Myers Jr.’s Parents […]
Lakechia Schonta Stanley (pictured), 34, received a 78-year sentence for brutalizing her then 8 and 10-year-old daughters by using such torturous punishment tactics as waterboarding, beating them with baseball bats and electrical cords, and making the girls take scalding hot or bone-chilling, frigid showers for any alleged wrongdoing, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The abuse came to light […]