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A brawl broke out at a kindergarten graduation ceremony in Cincinnati Monday morning that ended up with the Springfield Township school being locked down. The brawl took place at Mt. Healthy North Elementary School’s cafeteria where the parents and friends gathered for punch and cookies to celebrate the graduation of 150 kindergarteners. Allegedly, the fighting began when […]
Arthur Morgan III (pictured), a New Jersey native who threw his daughter in to a creek while she was strapped in her car seat, received a life sentence last week, the New York Daily News reports. SEE ALSO: Dispatcher Suspended For Oprah Winfrey Comments Made During Maya Angelou 911 Call Morgan committed the appalling act in November […]
A Georgia SWAT team acting on a search warrant threw a grenade into a Habersham County home in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, critically burning 19-month-old Bounkham Phonesavanh, reports WSBTV. The toddler’s mother, Alecia Phonesavanh, said that the grenade landed in her son’s crib on his pillow and exploded in his face. Read more […]
Vincent Parker (pictured), 16, who last December allegedly beat then bludgeoned his parents to death because they took away his iPod, pleaded guilty to the crime on Wednesday at a Norfolk, Va., criminal court. The high schooler, who was an honor roll student without any criminal record, will be tried as an adult, but his […]
Kamari Smith, the young girl who was injured in a hit and run in Detroit on May 19th, has died, according to her mother. RELATED:Â Two…
Buzzing Chicago artist Chance The Rapper (pictured) was instrumental in a social media campaign that led to a quieting of the escalating gun violence in the Windy City for 42 hours straight. Using Twitter to spread a message of hope, Chance partnered with his father in an ambitious mission to combat the rising murder rate […]
Amanda Hendrickson, 33, and boyfriend Roderick Buckner, 34, have been arrested in the beating death of her daughter, 5-year-old Heaven Woods, reports WSBTV. Heaven was discovered unresponsive in her Forsyth County, Georgia home after 911 was called. She later died at a local hospital. An investigation was immediately opened by the GBI. “So far what […]
A 16-year-old Houston boy is facing attempted robbery charges after an incident last week. But beyond the impending court date to follow, the teen received an earful from his mother and grandmother while he was detained in the backseat of a Houston Police Department squad car. Local outlet ABC-13 caught the exchange on tape after […]
Andrew Gehring (pictured left) and Donovan Johnson (pictured right) were arrested on disorderly conduct charges Saturday morning for allegedly causing quite a stir with regards to their attire. The 22-year-old men were patronizing a Waffle House in Spartanburg, S.C., when they were asked by the establishment’s security guard to pull up their saggy pants because their boxers […]
Twin brothers Tyrelle (right) and Myrelle Lockett (left) were the masterminds of a sex trafficking and prostitution ring in Chicago, using social media and smartphones to lure teenage girls into their insidious business. The Lockett brothers, now 21, are both back in the system after becoming the first individuals arrested for human trafficking under Illinois law […]
A man who claimed that police officers assaulted him outside his Clayton County, Ga. home late last week while he was moving in is coming forward with more details about the incident. Fox 5 Atlanta reports that  Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, 69, has filed a complaint against Clayton County Police with his legal team producing video that […]
Charity Johnson, 34 was arrested for posing as a 15-year-old Texas high school sophomore for nearly an entire year. The jig was up after Johnson’s adoptive family grew suspicious of her identity, according to KLTV. Johnson, who had attended New Life Christian School in Longview since October, used the alias Charite Stevens and claimed that both of […]
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