EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Authorities suspect hunters may have shot two South Texas middle school students who were wounded by gunfire Monday afternoon while trying out for a basketball team. SEE ALSO: How Saturday Night Live Has Become The Place For Celeb Damage Control Two boys – ages 13 and 14 – were shot, said […]
In this is episode of NewOne’s original video series “On The Corner,” we joined twelve-year-old Victoria Pannell, the National Action Network’s Northeast Regional Director of the Youth, in a march and rally in a Harlem neighborhood where gang, drug, and gun activity is rampant. SEE ALSO: DMX Plays Wheelchair Basketball With Disabled Vets
In this is episode of NewOne’s original video series “On The Corner,” we joined twelve-year-old Victoria Pannell, the National Action Network’s Northeast Regional Director of the Youth, in a march and rally in a Harlem neighborhood where gang, drug, and gun activity is rampant. SEE ALSO: DMX Plays Wheelchair Basketball With Disabled Vets
AP- A woman who allegedly fired pepper spray at other customers during a Black Friday sale has surrendered to authorities, Los Angeles police said Saturday. Police Sgt. Jose Valle said the woman who allegedly caused minor injuries to 20 shoppers at a Los Angeles-area Walmart turned herself in Friday night. She is currently not in […]
UPDATE — Via MSNBC: Violence erupted at Black Friday sales across the U.S. with one bargain-hunter left critically injured after being shot during a robbery and 15 other people injured when an angry shopper used pepper spray. Several of the incidents took place at Wal-Mart stores as millions of Americans loaded up on holiday purchases. Update 11:57 a.m. ET: An off-duty police officer […]
A Chicago high school football coach is in police custody, charged with misdemeanor simple assault for watching more than a dozen of his players attack a disabled teen. Fenger High School coach Cassius Chambers, 28, turned himself into police yesterday for an incident on Oct. 1 when more than 20 of his football players jumped Darion Jones, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of violent crimes fell by a surprisingly large 12 percent in the United States last year, a far bigger drop than the nation has been averaging since 2001, the Justice Department said. The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported there were 3.8 million violent crimes last year, down from 4.3 million […]
ST. ELMO, ALA.– A former candidate for one of Alabama’s U.S. Senate seats is being sought by authorities in Alabama after he allegedly tased a pastor during a church knife fight. While the exact details are not clear, various accounts are surfacing. In one account, Simone De Moore tased a pastor at New Welcome Baptist Church in St. […]
When I was growing up, there were always stories of random acts of violence here and there, or a tragic shooting that would periodically capture the headlines. But what was once a rarity has sadly transformed into some sort of normalized disturbing behavior. Just within the last week, a Florida teen was accused of bludgeoning […]
KANSAS CITY–An alarming murder reputation plaques the 64130 zip code area of Kansas City, earning the moniker “The Murder Factory.” While its 26,000 residents make up about 6 percent of the city’s population, it accounts for 20 percent of Kansas City citizens in prison for murder or voluntary manslaughter. Your Black World Reports: Victims ranged […]
NEWARK — A Newark Little League coach Kevin Waters, 54, was brutally attacked on a baseball field, leaving him with a fractured skull, a concussion and two missing teeth. Waters, who served as president of the West Ward Little League for 13 years, is said to be the only thing that separates his young players […]
By Richard Nieva William Bell still can’t sleep at night. “It’s not easy,” said Bell, the father of Sean Bell, the 23-year-old groom-to-be gunned down outside of a Queens night-club in 2006 on the night of his bachelor party by a team of plainclothes policemen. This revelation came during a panel on violence and grief […]
