Looks like making half a million dollars a year isn’t enough for some people. According to ESPN, Dallas Cowboys backup running back Joseph Randle was arrested Monday night after reportedly attempting to steal cologne and underwear from Dillard’s department store. Randle was charged with a Class B theft, which is in the $50-$500 range, and…

Professor, political writer and one of Kenya’s brightest sons, Ali Mazrui died Monday at the age of 81. “Death has robbed us of one of Kenya’s greatest scholars,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta told BBC News regarding the Kenyan-born scholar. Kenyatta called Mazrui a “towering” academic whose “intellectual contributions played a major role in shaping African scholarship,”…

Planned protests this weekend throughout the St. Louis area to stop police violence led to at least 17 arrests Sunday as protesters staged an unplanned sit-in outside a convenience store and refused police orders to leave. St. Louis Police Department spokeswoman Schron Jackson told Reuters that those detained were arrested for “unlawful assembly” Sunday morning in…

Last week Washington, D.C., police were called to investigate a suspected burglary. The police stopped a black man in a wealthy neighborhood who was minding his business and began questioning him. He told police that he had no idea why he was being stopped but believed that he was being singled out. Police told the…

Eric Garner’s family will still get their day in court, but it won’t be with the same lawyer. That’s because the Associated Press is reporting that attorney Sanford Rubenstein has been accused of raping a woman he met at a 60th-birthday party for the Rev. Al Sharpton last week. According to reports, the alleged incident took…

A few Sundays ago, a now-former Montgomery, Ala., pastor, Juan Demetrius McFarland, who had led his church for 23 years, walked up to the pulpit and told his congregation that he has full-blown AIDS and that he had slept with church members who never knew his health status. “He confessed to the entire membership and…

Protests erupted and Twitter was ablaze after early reports from St. Louis had an off-duty police officer involved in the fatal shooting of a teenager in south St. Louis Wednesday night. Conflicting reports have emerged since the shooting, but police claim that the teen was armed and fired at least three shots at the officer…

C.J. Spillman, the Dallas Cowboys special-teams player accused of sexually assaulting a woman in the team hotel last month, may have sexually assaulted another woman last year, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, Spillman, who was a member of the San Francisco 49ers at the time, allegedly “attempted to rape…

A group of Michael Brown protesters who took their rally outside a St. Louis stadium were met by angry Cardinals fans shouting, “Get a job” and “Let’s go, Darren,” in support of the Ferguson, Mo., police officer, Darren Wilson, who killed the unarmed teen, according to the New York Daily News. The racial confrontation was…

On Monday a 4-year-old Delaware girl was reportedly fishing around in her mother’s backpack when she stumbled on what she believed was candy. Police say the little girl took the “candy” to her day care center and began passing it out to other children. Workers at the Hickory Tree Child Care Center noticed some of…