Felicia Green won’t be winning any grandmother-of-the-year awards if reports that she left her 5-month-old grandchild in a locked car while she went to the movies turn out to be true.  According to KLTV, Green, 49, was arrested last week and faces “child-endangerment charges” after she reportedly left her granddaughter strapped into a car seat inside…

Ferguson, Mo., police now have their sights set on finding one suspect they believe shot and wounded an officer in a Saturday-night altercation that is now being described very differently from when police first reported the incident. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, police initially reported that the officer saw two suspects breaking into a business.…

Two years ago, Pittsburgh native Mileek Grissom, 23, was shot and rushed to UPMC Mercy hospital. After learning of the shooting, Grissom’s stepfather, the Rev. Earl Baldwin Jr., was the first of his family to arrive at the hospital, and even though doctors had not yet said so, Baldwin says he knew Grissom was already…

The July 1 video of a police officer sitting atop a black woman and raining down punches on her went viral. The story would soon emerge that the woman, Marlene Pinnock, a 51-year-old great-grandmother, was homeless and headed to an underpass to sleep when a California Highway Patrol officer stopped her, threw her to the…

Surveillance video of John Crawford III’s last moments inside a Beavercreek, Ohio, Wal-Mart has been released. Crawford can be seen walking into the store, picking up the air rifle and then walking the aisle holding the gun. He never holds the air rifle in a shooting stance, but he can be seen with the gun…

An Ohio special grand jury decided after days of deliberation that no officers will be charged in the death of 22-year-old John Crawford III, who was shot and killed inside a Beaverton Wal-Mart while carrying an air rifle sold at the store. Special Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier announced Wednesday morning at a press conference that the…

A small group of protesters converged on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., Tuesday to continue the effort to bring attention and resolution to the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson. The protest comes after reports that a memorial to Brown caught fire Tuesday, which upset many on…

Bigen. Pronounced “Beijing.” Sounds almost magical. “Bigen Blackout.” That’s what the hood calls it. A mystical mix of chemicals whipped up and applied to hair, and like magic—or Magic Marker, as it were—beards look blacker, more asymmetrical, and hair looks thicker and fully restored. In a layman’s hands, Bigen is nothing more than semipermanent hair…

While the NFL and the state of Texas are deciding how many books to throw at Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson if he’s convicted of child-abuse charges, sources tell ESPN that Peterson has yet to fully grasp the enormity of his situation and still believes that there’s a chance he may play football again…

Last month Ferguson, Mo., was in full uproar after a police officer shot an unarmed teen. People protested. Cops wore military gear and threw tear gas. The nation was on notice. Marquis Govan, 11, dressed in khakis and a white dress shirt, appeared before the St. Louis County Council last month and told its members…