The family of a church drummer has been left searching for answers after a Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., police officer shot and killed the Florida man early Sunday morning. According to WPTV, Corey Jones, 31, was fatally shot by an on-duty plainclothes officer in an unmarked car around 3:15 a.m. Sunday. A police report viewed…

Looks like Russell Simmons has some explaining to do after scores of people took to Twitter and Facebook to voice their displeasure over the hip-hop mogul’s prepaid debit card, which they said had many locked out of their accounts and some showing zero balances. According to Time, the controversial prepaid RushCard debit card, which some…

A Detroit pastor pulled out a Glock handgun during the 1:30 p.m. Sunday service and fatally shot a man who was reportedly trying to attack him, authorities say. “The pastor had had issues with the man before,” Assistant Police Chief Steve Dolunt told the Detroit News. “He had been threatening him to do bodily harm.…

A four-part video posted on Twitter Saturday appears to show a Prince George’s County, Md., police officer punching a handcuffed man. In the first installment of the video, the man can be seen on the ground with the officer on top of him. The officer appears to punch the man in the face. In the…

A Boston man who posed as an Uber driver and raped a passenger has been sentenced to 10-12 years in prison. According to the New York Daily News, Alejandro Done, 47, “pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of aggravated rape, kidnapping and assault and battery.” In December, Done convinced his victim that he was the…

A Rhode Island high school student was cuffed and another student was slammed to the floor by a school resource officer who claims the two students attacked him, although video of the incident seems to tell a different story. According to ABC 6 News, a 40-second video posted to social media shows the tail end…

A nationwide FBI sting rescued 149 sexually exploited children and arrested 150 pimps and others involved in prostitution of underage children.  According to CBS News, the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children teamed up to form Operation Cross Country, which targeted 15 cities, including Atlanta; Cleveland; Denver; Knoxville, Tenn.; Alexandria, Va.;…

On Wednesday evening a group of demonstrators staged a sit-in at Baltimore’s City Hall to protest the city’s deliberations on the permanent hiring of interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis. According to the Associated Press, protesters also wanted a sit-down meeting with Davis and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. According to a video posted to Twitter, one of…

“I misplaced $60,000,” 50-year-old Tony Harris wrote on his Facebook page Oct. 5, with a photo of his wife, Amber Crane, holding four large stacks of money. “I hope my wife didn’t go shopping with it.” Philadelphia police say that photo may have led to Harris’ death after three masked men burst into his home…

Black Lives Matter activists lined a Washington, D.C., street Tuesday in protest after an 18-year-old black man and his friends were accosted, chased and handcuffed by police for, they believe, standing too close to a banking institution and thereby making a white woman uncomfortable. Jason Goolsby told the Washington Post that he and two friends…