Two police officers in Ferguson, Mo., were shot outside police headquarters early Thursday morning after protesters gathered there following news that embattled Police Chief Thomas Jackson would be resigning. According to the Associated Press, a 32-year-old officer from Webster Groves, Mo., was shot in the face and a 41-year-old St. Louis County officer was shot…

Turns out it’s hip-hop’s fault for the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon frat members’ racist chant that included the lyrics, “There will never be a n—ger SAE/There will never be a n—ger SAE/You can hang him from a tree, but he will never sign with me/There will never be a n—ger SAE.” According to…

The fallout from a video that captured members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter singing a racist chant continued Tuesday as university President David Boren announced that two students have been expelled. Boren said that both students, Parker Rice and Levi Pettit, played “a leadership role” during the party-bus ride’s racist sing-along. Thank you for…

Just days after video emerged of members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singing a racist chant, new footage has popped up that appears to show the fraternity’s housemother spouting the n-word repeatedly. On Monday the Oklahoma Daily, the student newspaper, published the Vine video, which appears to show Beauton Gilbow spouting…

Hearing a trash truck in the early-morning hours can certainly be annoying, but for one garbage collector, starting too early in an Atlanta suburb cost him 30 days behind bars. That’s right. Kevin McGill, 48, an Atlanta husband and father of two, was sentenced to 30 days in jail for collecting trash too early for…

Two Indianapolis teens were blindfolded, kidnapped and tortured after their older sister reportedly stole $120,000 in cash, some 4,000 OxyContin pills and a kilogram of cocaine from her allegedly drug-dealing boyfriend. According to the Indy Star, on March 2 around 2:30 a.m., three men with pistols kicked in the door of the teens’ family’s home,…

A California mother and her boyfriend prostituted the woman’s two daughters, one of whom is 14, authorities told the Press Enterprise. According to the newspaper, Antwana Muhammad, 38, and Charles Anthony Smith, 32, were arrested last week after police began investigating allegations that the couple were exploiting the woman’s 14-year-old daughter. During the investigation, police…

It wasn’t a secret underground drug-running cave or a subversive terrorist plot. Turns out that the 33-foot-long bunker, found under one of Toronto’s most popular tourist attractions, was literally just a man cave, according to the architect. Elton McDonald, a 22-year-old construction worker, told the Toronto Sun that had he not been caught, he had plans…

Consider it a miracle. On Monday, Ohio mother Lashanda Goldsmith; her 7-month-old daughter, Madison; and a 15-year-old girl were in a van when a car ran a red light, crashing into their vehicle and sending Madison flying through a window. According to WHIO, rescuers found Madison, who was strapped in her car seat, facedown, some…