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Lashia White is wanted by the Temple, Texas, police for allegedly setting her sister on fire during an argument Saturday afternoon. Police investigators say that the suspect fled from the scene after the domestic disturbance and now they are looking for her across two states, reports the Daily Mail. SEE ALSO: Is The Internet Driving Us […]

A 12-year-old boy allegedly beat to death 2-year-old Aniyah Batchelor (pictured center with older sister and Mother), who was a foster child that had been staying at his Fort Washington, Md., home. The youth is being charged with murder for the June 3 killing, reports ABC 7. SEE ALSO: Slavery To The White House In 5 Generations The unidentified boy, who […]

Crime

After being forced to perform oral sex on an 11-year-old bully on a school bus, a 7-year-old boy twice attempted suicide, reports the Daily Mail UK. According to a lawsuit filed July 2, administrators failed to take action when the sexual abuse was reported. In November 2011, the boy told his mother that the older […]

Crime

The violence in Chicago continues to escalate, with 12 people being shot between Friday night and Saturday morning, including a 14-year-old boy, reports the Chicago Tribune.com. The teen was shot in the 12400 block of South Perry Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood about 8:35 p.m. He was shot in the back and leg and […]

Mourners in the urban war torn streets of Chicago gathered Friday to say goodbye to 7-year-old Heaven Sutton, reports the Chicago Tribune.com. As previously reported by NewsOne.com, Heaven was shot in the back on June 27 as gunfire rang out up the street from her mother’s candy stand. A stand, said her distraught mother Ashake […]

Crime

William Allen Clark, 19, Jonathan Andrew Miller, 18, and a 17-year-old boy have been arrested in Miami for sexually assaulting a 29-year-old woman walking to her car, reports Miami’s Local10.com. The young woman was walking in a parking lot at 2:30 a.m. when the three men attacked her and sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. According […]

Muhammed Jah (pictured) of The Gambia told the BBC in a recent interview of a friend who went to the airport in the late 1990s to pick up a consultant who was in the country teach his department the then-popular word processing program, WordPerfect. SEE ALSO: Allen West’s Runaway Slave Rhetoric Surprised, Jah asked, “how […]

In spite of lying to the court, George Zimmerman walked out of Seminole County Jail this afternoon, after posting $1 million bond, according to the Orlando Sentinel. RELATED: Trayon’s Mom Disappointed Over Zimmerman Bond About his release, Zimmerman attorney Don West reportedly told reporters that Zimmerman was “happy” to be out of jail, “He is […]

In yet another questionable turn of events, Judge Kenneth Lester ordered George Zimmerman, who will soon stand trial for murdering unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, released on $1 million bail, according to the Orlando Sentinel. RELATED: Judge To Make Decision On Zimmerman’s Bond Thursday In a bond hearing that began last Friday, Zimmerman’s defense attorney Mark […]

Quartavious Davis (pictured) is a first-time offender who was convicted of armed robbery in April. Even though the gun he fired did not shoot anyone, he received a stiffer than stiff sentence from a Florida judge for his crime:  1,941 months or 161 years in prison, reports the Huffington Post.  Davis’ new attorney, Jacqueline Shapiro, is […]

The ever elusive ‘God Particle,’ formally known as the Higgs boson in honor of British physicist Peter Higgs, who first theorized the discovery in 1964, has allegedly been discovered after decades of expensive searching, reports The Telegraph. “I think we have it,” said the director general of CERN, Rolf-Dieter Heuer. “[It is] a historic milestone.” CERN […]

It’s been nearly one year since 2-year-old Destiny Riddick died after allegedly ingesting some pills from her grandmother Kimberly Artis’ (pictured left) candy dish.  Now police are hunting for Artis who ran away after being brought up on murder charges for her granddaughter’s death, according to NewsChannel 3. SEE ALSO: When Rap Lyrics Stand Trial Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE […]