In an op-ed for the Washington Post, President Barack Obama announced an end to solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, citing the potential long-term psychological effects. Obama began his piece, which appears in Tuesday’s edition of the Post, by outlining the story of Kalief Browder, a Bronx, N.Y., teen who was arrested for…

A mother of two was followed to her car, shot and killed after she reportedly rebuffed a man’s advances in a Pittsburgh bar. According to WTAE, Janese Talton-Jackson, 29, of Penn Hills, Pa., located just outside Pittsburgh, was leaving the bar around 1:50 a.m. when the suspect followed her to her car, where she was…

Gainesville, Fla., Police Officer Bobby White was dispatched to a Gainesville neighborhood last week after a neighbor called to report that children were playing too loudly. When the officer arrived, he saw several children playing basketball. He joked with the kids about someone calling the police on them and then proceeded to shoot hoops with…

Craigory Burch Jr. thought all his dreams had come true after learning that his lottery ticket matched all five numbers in the Fantasy 5 jackpot. Winning the Georgia lottery meant that the 20-year-old forklift operator won close to a half-million dollars, or $434,272 before taxes. One of the first things he did with his winnings…

On Monday around 10 p.m., a Florida mother had a quick decision to make. She had just pulled into a gas station when two armed thieves attempted to steal her car. What the carjackers may not have known is that the woman’s two kids were still in the backseat. As the mother left the car…

Kwame Kilpatrick, the embattled and imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn his 28-year prison sentence, the Associated Press reports. Kilpatrick was found guilty of some two dozen crimes in 2013. His charges included tax evasion and bribery, according to AP. Kilpatrick recently filed the request asking the…

A former North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted of murder after he shot and killed a black teenager using a crossbow just three days after Christmas in 1992 was denied parole. According to the Charlotte Observer, Russell Hinson, 56, shot 16-year-old Felicia Houston through the chest with a razor-tipped arrow as she…

Trayon Christian, the young black man who was arrested in 2013 for “shopping while black” at a Barneys New York store has reached a $45,000 settlement with the city, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, police stopped Christian on April 27, 2013, after he purchased a $349 reversible black-and-white Salvatore…