Crime

Last February, Brandon Jackson would be sentenced to 12 years in prison by a nearly all-White jury, after being jumped by a group of White males in Jackson, N.J.  Here, Brandon’s mother, Gloria Fisher, describes the void she has been experiencing each Mother’s Day without her son. RELATED: Son Jumped By Whites, Sentenced To 12 […]

Sheila Howard (pictured) is behind bars at a Clayton County, Ga., jail and charged with shoplifting, criminal trespassing, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for allegedly using her 11-year-old granddaughter to help her steal at a local retailer. The pilfering, which amounted to $139, was all reportedly caught on tape, according to WSBTV. […]

Assistant State Attorney Tammy Glotfelty, who advised Officer Gregory Rhoden to charge 16-year-old Kiera Wilmot with a felony, has some explaining to do. Just days after doling out a stiff charge for Kiera, Glotfelty decided not to bring any charges against White 13-year-old Taylor Richardson, who mistakenly killed his younger brother with a BB gun, […]

Self-described neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman‘s (picture) legal team filed a motion to have the processes of the voice recognition experts challenged in regards to the 911 call, according to the Orlando Sentinel. During the 911 call, a voice is heard repeatedly calling for help, but is then dramatically silenced with a gunshot. To date, both […]

Nina Koistinen (pictured) was arrested on Sunday and accused of deliberately suffocating her eighth child, a newborn daughter, because she was overwhelmed by her brood, reports Phoenix New Times. SEE ALSO: Emmet Till’s Family Tries To Halt Lil Wayne’s Mountain Dew Deal When initially questioned about the death of her 6-day-old child, Koistinen told police […]

Authorities have charged 19-year-old Ariel Devonish-Francis (pictured) of the Bronx with unlawful disposal of a cadaver for allegedly throwing her newborn down a garbage chute, according to the N.Y. Daily News. SEE ALSO: Michigan Democrat Caught On Tape Calling Town Official An ‘Arrogant N***er’ On Saturday, Devonish-Francis reportedly gave birth to a baby boy in […]

Atlanta police arrested brothers Montez Thompkins, 21 (pictured left), and Jeremy Jemell Thompkins, 23 (pictured right) on Wednesday, 6 months after the Nov. 3 fatal shooting of 2-year-old  Ty-Teyanna Motley and charged them with her murder, reports the AJC.com. Little Ty-Teyanna was asleep in her bed with her 1-year-old brother, Isaiah, and her grandmother at […]

Katrina Tisdale (pictured) was arrested and charged on Monday with misusing  911, when she reportedly called twice so she could get a refund from her drug dealer, reports the Smoking Gun. SEE ALSO: N.Y.C. Train Rider Grooves To Grandmaster Flash When St. Petersburg, Fla., resident allegedly purchased drugs from her unnamed female drug dealer, she […]

For many, first dates bring uncomfortable small talk, inquiring questions, and the possibility of what may come after it ends. For Nimeha Milien, it brought about a carjacking, according to the N.Y. Daily News. SEE ALSO: Richie Havens, Woodstock Legend, Dead At 72 Milien says she agreed to go out on a date with 19-year-old Donald McGee […]

Mustapha Farrakhan (pictured left), the son of controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (pictured), is reportedly under investigation by the Illinois Police Standards and Training Board for enjoying all of the privileges of a part-time cop with the Harvey Police Department (HPD) even though he allegedly hasn’t worked in years, according to the Washington Free […]

Antwan Rayvon James, 27 (pictured left), is suspected of fatally shooting his stepfather, Washington, D.C. police officer, Joseph Burrough Newell, 46 (pictured right) because he asked him to do yard work, reports the Washington Post. Authorities are currently searching for him. According to court documents, there Burrough requested that his James put fertilizer on the […]

Murray Bergtraum High School, which is located in Manhattan’s downtown financial district and has been plagued with a violent reputation, is now in the news yet again. This time, student fisticuffs involving two separate incidents was caught on tape last Thursday, reports the New York Daily News. SEE ALSO: Will President Obama Rise To The […]