Crime

Adolfo Davis had been 14 years old for just two months when he made the mistake that changed his life. SEE ALSO: Philip Ward Charged With Beheading Girlfriend Veronica Bowen, Cops Say In October 1990, he was living on Chicago’s South Side with a grandmother who could barely care for him. His father was gone. […]

The tragically familiar violence that punctures Chicago with gunfire reached a crescendo Saturday with the murders of 7 people, including a 6-year-old girl, and the shootings of at least 12 more, reports CBS Chicago. SEE ALSO: Philip Ward Charged With Beheading Girlfriend Veronica Bowen, Cops Say According the Chicago Police Department, 3 were shot in […]

UPDATE: 12:30 A.M. EST The Orlando Sentinel reports: [911 calls] were released [to the public] after Trayvon’s family spent two hours with city officials, listening to the calls that documented the 17-year-old’s last moments alive.” In one of the 911 calls … a man reports that “they’re wrestling right in the back of my porch. […]

A Brooklyn, N.Y., 27-year-old woman on crack handed her newborn baby to a stranger on Thursday while the umbilical chord was still wrapped around the infant and attached with a shoestring, reports WABC News. SEE ALSO: Man Kills Wife In Car, Then Shoots Self As 3 Children Watch The Mother, whom police have now identified as Shoshanna Muhammad, […]

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate’s love life was convicted of invasion of privacy and anti-gay intimidation Friday in a case that exploded into the headlines when the victim threw himself to his death off a bridge. SEE ALSO: Nike Apologizes […]

Dwayne Flourney was arrested Wednesday for the brutal murders of his 76-year-old grandmother and 52-year-old father. After performing the murders, Flourney allegedly hid the bodies and then threw a house party in his Maplewood, New Jersey, home, reports The Star-Ledger. SEE ALSO: Man Kills Wife In Car, Then Kills Self As 3 Children Watch ‘LIKE’ NewsOne’s […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A founder of the Roc-A-Fella record label has pleaded guilty in New York to marijuana distribution charges. Kareem Burke entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Manhattan. Burke started the hip-hop label with Jay-Z and Damon Dash in the 1990s. The 38-year-old was arrested in October 2010 along with more […]

Curtis Glendell Mathews, pastor of one of the oldest Black churches in the south was arrested late Tuesday night and accused of arranging sexual trysts with a juvenile, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Mathews, who for the last 15 years has served as pastor of the Springfield Baptist Church in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, was arrested […]

Jedidiah, 25 (pictured top), and his wife, Alyshia Alexander, 24 (pictured below), died of gunshot wounds from an alleged murder-suicide on Tuesday as they reportedly sat in their car outside of Jedidiah’s mother’s Kansas City home. The pair’s unharmed three young children, ages 1, 2, and 3, were in the backseat of the car, reports KCTV 5. […]

Math teacher Damany Lewis became the first teacher to be fired in the Atlanta Public School standardized cheating scandal that embarrassed the state of Georgia and shined a bright light on the pressure educators are placed under by districts to raise test scores, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. SEE ALSO: How Palin Destroyed U.S. Politics […]

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them on Wednesday. SEE ALSO: How Palin Destroyed U.S. Politics After the verdict, the […]

Britshonna Lashaun Patterson, 17, was taken in to police custody Monday afternoon for allegedly stealing her teacher’s wallet on February 28, but before going on a spending spree, the remorseful teen left the educator a written apology and placed in within view of the teacher’s desk, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. RELATED: Mom Makes Daughter Wear “I’m A […]