Crime

Brooklyn resident Jurard St. Hillaire recently won a $14,000 settlement from his city, after surveillance video proved he was illegally stopped and frisked last June, according to the New York Daily News. RELATED: Busted! Video Possibly Captures Illegal ‘Stop-And-Frisk’ Of Man Recording Police Stop In the video, Officer Leonard Clarke is seen roughly forcing Hillaire […]

Jesse Rutledge, an 88-year-old Tuskegee airman who served in World War II as a gunner on a B-25, was carjacked in Detroit in broad daylight on Saturday, Channel 7 Action News reports. SEE ALSO: Community Activist Redirects Youth Away From Guns, Violence “He said,” ‘N*gga give me your keys’ and racked his gun back,” Rutledge […]

The missing Springfield, Miss., 13-month-old baby girl Harmony Blue (pictured), who was abducted Saturday afternoon as she and her 4-year-old brother sat in a running car while their father made a quick dash in to a grocery store, was found hours after her brother was located, reports ABC News. SEE ALSO: Miracles Singer Bobby Rogers Dead […]

Fiona Clarke (pictured), 40, fired home health care worker in Norwalk, CT is accused of leaving feces in her former employers’ oven and refrigerator after a work-related dispute, reports Raw Story. Earlier this year, Clarke was caring  for an elderly woman in Norwalk when the family asked her if she would like to work more […]

When a football player allegedly aimed a loaded .22 caliber revolver at another student on a Florida school bus, a 16-year-old student bravely wrestled it from him — then got suspended for his heroic action. The incident occurred between Cypress Lake High students in Fort Myers, Florida on Tuesday afternoon. The student, who remains anonymous because […]

Jeffrey Simon Hubbard, the jet-ski operator who allegedly ran over 11-year-old Kile Glover in a jet-ski accident on Atlanta’s Lake Lanier on July 8, 2012,  was arrested this morning and charged with homicide by vehicle, reports TMZ. Kile was the son of Tameka Foster Raymond and Ryan Glover, and step-son of recording artist Usher. As […]

Six-year-old Amar Diarrosova (pictured) was on his way to school when he was reportedly plowed down and killed by a tractor-trailer truck in Harlem while the school’s crossing guard was on a break, reports NBC News.com. SEE ALSO: More Black Men In College Than In Jail? Wrong The elementary school boy was just one block from […]

Aswad Ayinde (pictured) , the New Jersey father who stands accused of raping and impregnating three of his five daughters when they were all minors, is currently facing his second of five jury trials. In this proceeding, the 54-year-old is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault, and two counts of sexual assault. His former spouse, Beverly Ayinde, […]

Nineteen-year-old Atlanta youth Orentheal Childs (pictured below right) who was left for dead after being shot 15 times for attempting to cut his ties with a gang is miraculously, still alive, reports My Fox Atlanta. SEE ALSO: African Family Opens First Black Hair Salon In Beijing Childs was a member of a new street gang, the Young […]

Phillip Hudson Jr. (pictured) was arrested on child abuse charges for allegedly using a taser on the 5-year-old boy of his ex-girlfriend about 20 times, which left burn marks all over the child’s body, reports Oklahoma’s Own. SEE ALSO: Cop Charged With Not Investigating Racial Threats…Against Himself The incident came to light when the child went to […]

Pop and gospel performer Michael Winans, Jr. (pictured) was sentenced to 13 years for running an $8 million Ponzi scheme, The Detroit Free Press reports. He was also ordered to pay his victims–some 1,200 investors–$4.8 million in restitution. Winans, who is a member of the renowned Winans family gospel music dynasty, pleaded guilty to defrauding investors out of $8 […]

Lendsey and Delilha Harbin (pictured) are facing felony theft charges for allegedly “movie-hopping” last Saturday night at a Portage, Ind., multiplex.  The couple is accused of paying to see only one film, then sneaking in to another without paying another admission fee, according to The Smoking Gun. SEE ALSO: Cop Charged With Not Investigating Racial Threats…Against Himself […]