Turns out that the gin bottle Samuel Dubose handed to a University of Cincinnati officer, who would later kill him with a single gunshot to the head, didn’t contain gin at all but was, in fact, filled as Dubose had said: with air freshener. The July 19 exchange between Officer Ray Tensing, 33, and Dubose, 43,…

In May 2014, Ray Tensing, the University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the death of Sam Dubose, stopped a vehicle carrying two young black men. The bumper was dragging on the car Sexton Henley was driving. Demetrius Pace was a passenger. The two believed the officer was harassing them, so Pace started…

Memphis, Tenn., police are searching for Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, in the fatal shooting of Officer Sean Bolton after the officer reportedly interrupted a small-time drug deal. According to the Associated Press, Wilbourn has been identified as a suspect and faces a first-degree-murder charge in the 33-year-old officer’s death. Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong told those…

President Barack Obama has done nothing for African Americans and “set the bar very low,” according to Donald Trump, who also says he thinks Obama’s done such a bad job, there won’t be another black president for a long time. In an interview with ABC News Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate said that President Obama…

Former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Brandon Boykin wants to make it clear that he doesn’t believe his ex-football coach is a racist; he just feels that he has trouble relating to men of “our culture.” Boykin explained to CSN Philly in a series of text messages that he wasn’t trying to call Chip Kelly a bigot,…

Dylann Storm Roof, the suspect in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre, pleaded not guilty Friday to 33 federal charges. Earlier this month, Roof was indicted on 33 counts, “including federal hate crime and firearms charges,” for the June 17 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church that left nine people dead, CNN reports. According to…

The former University of Cincinnati police officer who has been indicted for murder in the fatal shooting of Sam Dubose during a routine traffic stop has posted bail, and a union representative has filed a grievance demanding that he be reinstated with the school’s Police Department. Thomas Fehr, a representative of the Fraternal Order of…

An underage University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student reportedly drank at two local bars before getting behind the wheel and driving the wrong way on the interstate, causing a head-on collision that left three people dead, authorities said. Chandler Michael Kania has been charged with second-degree murder in the July 19 accident on…

Eight-year-old Zion Harvey of Owings Mill, Md., lost his hands and feet to a dangerous infection when he was just 2 years old. Now Zion is the youngest person to receive a dual hand transplant, and while there are several hurdles to cross before Zion gets the all-clear, doctors are hopeful that this will be…

Updated Wed., July 29, 3:15 p.m. EDT: Officer Ray Tensing is in custody and reportedly broke down in tears when he was notified that he was being charged with murder in the death of Samuel Dubose, according to his lawyer, Stew Mathews, NBC 12 reports.  Tensing reportedly turned himself in and will be arraigned Friday, according to…