David L. Scott (pictured) has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing 42-year-old Roger Wilkes over a bag of Cheetos during an argument in downtown St. Louis, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. MUST READ: Did He Deliver? Grading Obama’s Master DNC Speech Authorities say that Scott and Wilkes got into an argument over the […]

Crime

A 9-year-old boy has been charged with first degree murder after he allegedly beat 14-month-old Taquan Willis to death on Aug. 26, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. SEE ALSO: Stevie Wonder Apologizes For Frank Ocean ‘Gay’ Comments Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! The 9-year-old was staying with relatives at a home […]

A 12-year-old girl, Dejamon Baker (pictured), was tased inside of a Victoria’s Secret in South St. Louis County, KSDK-TV reports. SEE ALSO: Arrest Warrant Issued For Cuba Gooding Jr. After Allegedly Pushing Female Bartender Police say an officer went inside of the Victoria’s Secret because the girl’s mother, Charlene Bratton, had warrants out for her arrest […]

A Missouri man set up a wildlife camera in his yard hoping to catch images of the pesky animal getting into his garbage cans. SEE ALSO: Why Romney Won’t Release His Tax Returns Instead, his camera ended up snapping shots of two no good vermin hiding from cops after they invaded a nearby neighbor’s home […]

I was introduced to AIDS, and subsequently, gay people at the age of 6, following the death of a relative. The words gay or homosexual weren’t the terms used to describe same-sex lovers, though. The word faggot was, which from its very utterance of the word in all its hate-filled tone, instilled a great fear […]

An annual study released on Wednesday revealed that Missouri leads the nation in the highest homicide rates for African Americans for the second year in a row. The study, performed by the Violence Policy Center in Washington, has placed the state at the top of the list three times in the past five years. SEE […]

Police in Missouri arrested a man for an incident last Saturday after he pulled a shotgun on a Taco Bell employee for forgetting to include hot sauce with his order. Police said Jeremy Combs, 30, arrived home after making an order at a Lee Summit, MO. Taco Bell. Combs returned to the restaurant’s drive-through with […]

PINHOOK, Mo. — A small town of African Americans may have met their fate thanks to a decision made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to blow up a levee in Eastern Missouri last month. Pinhook, Mo. once comprised of 250 people in the 1960s — today there are about 30 residents. The town […]

St. Louis, Missouri— St. Louis police say two federal marshals and one city officer were shot during a gunfight that broke out while they were trying to make an arrest.

From USA Today: It was the summer of 1950, and Mary Jean Price, the salutatorian of Lincoln High School in Springfield, Mo., hoped to enroll at a hometown college and become a teacher but But this was four years before Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared denying black […]