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…

In an attempt to dispel rumors that Sandra Bland was dead when she arrived at the Waller County jail, Texas officials released some three hours of footage showing the 28-year-old’s arrival at the jail. According to the Associated Press, rumors on social media have spread far and wide that Bland may have been dead when…

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts did not meet with the family of Freddie Gray after the 25-year-old’s death in police custody in April, a claim that he made on several occasions, according to the family’s attorney. According to the Baltimore Sun, once the Gray family’s attorney William H. Murphy Jr. found out that Batts…

On Saturday a black child’s birthday party in Douglasville, Ga., took a racist turn after, witnesses say, several men driving Confederate-flag-bearing pickup trucks interrupted the gathering and began yelling racial slurs and threats at the partygoers. “One had a gun, saying he was gonna kill the [racial slur],” Melissa Alford, who hosted the party at…

The principal of Teachers College Community School in West Harlem reportedly threw herself in front of an oncoming train after a whistleblower notified the New York City Department of Education that she had altered third-graders’ test scores. According to the New York Post, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden’s death April 17 came less than 24 hours after the…

Updated Monday, July 27, 6 p.m. EDT: Ralkina Jones, 37, of Cleveland argued with an ex outside a Save-a-Lot store in Cleveland Heights Friday before she was arrested and charged with “assault, domestic violence, endangering a child and criminal mischief,” according to CBS 5. According to Cleveland Heights police officials who spoke with the news…

What started as a peaceful gathering at the first Black Lives Matter conference to discuss police brutality against African Americans ended with a 14-year-old boy being arrested and several conference attendees being pepper-sprayed by police. The National Convening of the Movement for Black Lives began Friday at Cleveland State University and was ending Sunday when…

Newark, N.J., police are investigating an alleged Facebook exchange between a onetime city police officer and an active-duty city police lieutenant in which “Ras Baraka, the city’s African-American mayor, is referred to as a gorilla,” the Star-Ledger reports. According to the Star-Ledger, the reported incident, a screenshot of which was sent to police officials, violates the…