Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, currently facing child-abuse charges and banned from the team, is now the subject of a new set of allegations. According to a Minnesota Star-Tribune report released Monday, in 2011 Peterson reportedly participated in an “orgy” at a hotel, and Peterson’s All Day Foundation charity paid for the hotel room. …

A video has gone viral of a couple being arrested for obstruction during a traffic stop in which an Ohio police officer appears to give a series of conflicting stories as to the reason for the stop. On Wednesday, Kathryn Said, 30, of Taylor, Mich., and Andre Stockett, 34, of Huron, Ohio, were driving with…

Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old Oakland, Calif., teen who became the center of a national debate last year regarding end-of-life decision-making after doctors declared her legally dead when her family believed otherwise, is reportedly showing signs of life. According to CBS San Francisco, Jahi’s family is petitioning the courts to have an Alameda County judge declare…

A day after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell held a news conference to address the numerous accusations surrounding domestic violence and NFL players, the New York Daily News is reporting that a “Dallas Cowboys special-teams player was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at the team’s hotel in Texas” and was still allowed to play. According…

During a conversation on Twitter Wednesday, someone using the handle @thesusannichols claimed at 9:45 a.m. that the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury that is deciding whether to charge Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown Aug. 9 didn’t have enough evidence to warrant an arrest. “I know someone sitting on the grand jury…

Editor-in-Chief of The Root Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr.’s documentary series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross took home the Emmy for Outstanding Historical Program—Long Form at the 35th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Tuesday night at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City. The documentary, which premiered in 2013 on…

New audio has a white South Carolina state trooper telling a very different version of the events surrounding his shooting of an unarmed African-American man as the man reached into his car to retrieve his wallet. Video footage recorded on now-fired State Trooper Sean Groubert’s dash cam Sept. 4 shows Levar Jones, 35, reaching inside…

With the Secret Service under intense scrutiny amid reports that an armed man jumped the fence at the White House and made it all the way to the East Room, the Associated Press is now reporting that earlier this month, the president was on an elevator with an “armed security contractor who had three criminal…

The Zimmermans really know how to party on another person’s tab. According to a profile in the October issue of GQ magazine, George Zimmerman and his brother, Robert Jr.—who told the magazine that before George’s fatal 2012 shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, “he was the family f—kup”—racked up $3,600 in comped fees in February at…

Turns out that the man who jumped a White House fence armed with a knife and hatchet, and who was initially reported to have made it to the front door, actually made it as far as the White House’s East Room. According to NBC News, on Sept. 19 Omar J. Gonzalez hopped a fence, sprinted…