A high-ranking Republican believes that the Senate is likely in the next few days to approve Loretta Lynch as the nation’s next attorney general, a nomination that has been delayed as Republicans jostle for political position. “My sense is over the next 48 to 72 hours that is going to be resolved, and we will…

Sixty-nine-year-old Kenneth Broskey was given up to 10 weeks to live, but he refused to check into hospice because his family still needed his help. According to ABC News, Broskey, who has been battling cancer for some two years, was still working as a part-time real estate agent and a full-time Uber driver in Michigan…

In 2009 Phylise Davis-Bowens was pursuing her master’s degree at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla., when she decided she wanted to join the school’s dance team, known as the 14K Gold Dancers. But Davis-Bowens said that the band director told her she couldn’t even get an application until she lost 20 pounds, according to…

On Thursday, Gov. Nathan Deal signed legislation to make Georgia the 36th state, along with Washington, D.C., to legalize medical marijuana. But slow down: The Southern state isn’t loosening its staunch Bible belt all that much. According to MSNBC, it is legal “for people to possess up to 20 ounces of fluid cannabis oil.” However,…

Lawrence Phillips, former NFL running back and standout Nebraska Cornhusker, who is currently serving a 31-year sentence on domestic violence charges, is now a major suspect in the death of his cell mate. According to ESPN, 37-year-old Damion Soward, who was serving 82 years to life for first-degree murder in California’s Kern Valley State Prison,…

With cellphone video camera running, a customer got the wrath of a Burger King employee in Louisiana after asking about four times whether she could speak with a manager, Live Leak reported. Finally the customer asked for a refund, to which the employee responded, “Baby, you’re about to get it. Just wait. You’re gonna get…

Oklahoma authorities say that the sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot an unarmed man trying to evade arrest was reaching for his Taser but accidentally pulled his firearm, NBC News reports. Body-camera video from the April 2 encounter shows Eric Harris, 44, of Tulsa running as Reserve Deputy Robert Bates, 73, can be heard yelling “Taser!…

Michigan authorities are looking for a 19-year-old woman who reportedly fought with a rival and then hit the victim with her car as she drove away. According to MLive, police have issued an arrest warrant for Jalin Smith-Walker, who was also involved in a separate incident late last year in which she and another woman…

South Carolina authorities have released the police dash-cam video that shows the initial traffic stop and subsequent chase that led to the fatal shooting of Walter Scott, CNN reports.  While the actual shooting is not shown on the footage, the video from Michael Slager’s patrol car, which was released Thursday, shows the traffic stop and…

The video is stunning. A black man appears to be running away from a South Carolina police officer when he is fatally shot in the back. What’s even more difficult to believe is that not only did the officer, Michael Slager, report that the man, Walter Scott, tried to steal his Taser, but the video…