Former Detroit Lions running back Jahvid Best, whose football career was cut short after he suffered several concussions, is suing the NFL and helmet maker Riddell, the Associated Press reports. Best, who was the 30th draft pick in the 2010 NFL draft after breaking multiple records coming out of California, suffered at least four concussions…

The gunman who killed two people and injured several others before taking his own life inside a suburban Maryland mall last Saturday wrote of killing people in a journal. He also wrote that he was ready to die, police told the Associated Press, as they released new details about the shooting.  Darion Marcus Aguilar expressed…

Football player Jonathan Martin, who left the Miami Dolphins mid-season amid allegations of bullying and racism, sat down for his first interview since the scandal broke.  Martin told NBC Nightly News, which aired the episode Tuesday evening, that the persistence of vulgar language and the climate the lockerroom made him feel trapped, forcing him to…

The teen who allegedly called Kim Kardashian everything but a child of God and then received a reported ungodly beat-down from Yeezus has settled with the rapper out of court and received a massive six-figure payday, New York’s Daily News reports. The unidentified 18-year-old, who was alleged to have called Kim “a slut” and a…

Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter had strong words for the NCAA, the governing body of collegiate sports, during a news conference on Tuesday in which he called the group “a dictatorship” while unveiling a proposal for college athletes to unionize, issuing the latest blow in the growing national debate over whether college players should be compensated,…

His purple majesty, Prince, who is notorious for controlling his musical image, is now suing 22 fans who he claims have illegally posted his live shows online, making them available for download, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, Prince Rogers Nelson filed a lawsuit in Northern District of California earlier…

A 56-year-old Missouri death row inmate’s life was spared on the eve of his execution, the Associated Press reports. Herbert Smulls received word that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had signed the order that was sent out Tuesday night after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech. Smulls’ lawyers had been making last-minute…

The U.S. government doesn’t want people looking at the phone records of the people whom they are spying on. The Associated Press has learned that while the Obama administration is considering moving its  collection of phone-surveillance records from the National Security Agency to be stored at phone companies or elsewhere, it is also funding research…

A North Carolina grand jury on Monday has rectified what many considered an injustice by indicting an officer who shot and killed an unarmed former Florida A&M football player, the New York Daily News reports. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Randall Kerrick, 27, now faces a voluntary-manslaughter charge for the September 2013 shooting in which Kerrick is…