A former Houston middle school teacher who was accused of performing an erotic lap dance for a 15-year-old student in February pleaded guilty last week to having an inappropriate relationship with the boy. According to news station KHOU, video of Felicia Smith, the 42-year-old teacher who performed the dance in front of the class, made…

Some 8,000 former patients of a gynecologist who secretly recorded their exams aren’t happy with the slicing up of the $190 million settlement that was reached with Johns Hopkins Hospital. According to the Associated Press, lawyers could receive up to 35 percent, or some $66 million, of the negotiated deal. Twenty-five former patients not only…

While Floyd Mayweather Jr. is getting ready to take on Marcos Maidana next week, he may want to make sure his lawyers are ready to fight his former fiancee, Shantel Jackson, in court. According to the Associated Press, Jackson filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that the superstar boxer abused…

A mother says that on Tuesday, while she and her family were taking her 12-year-old son, Brandon Pearson, to school for his first day at Huntington K-8 School in Syracuse, N.Y., they stopped to take photos of him inside the school at a hallway mural. That is when a school security guard walked over to…

Updated Thursday, Sept. 4, 3:49 p.m. EDT: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed Thursday what several news sources had reported: that the Justice Department is opening an investigation into the Ferguson Police Department in Missouri. The DOJ plans to take a top-to-bottom look at the police force that has become the epicenter of a national debate…

Looks like Michael Sam may still have a future in the NFL. After being cut from the St. Louis Rams this past week, Sam flew into Dallas late Tuesday night and took a physical Wednesday. Now ESPN is reporting that the Dallas Cowboys have signed the rookie to their practice squad. “It’s been a roller coaster this…

Fifteen-year-old Dominique Allen wanted to be a model. She had plans to one day attend the prestigious Spelman College in Atlanta. Last weekend the Indianapolis teen’s body was found burned, and police believe that she didn’t know the person who abducted and killed her. Dominique had been staying with one of her sisters, Mareeka Allen,…

Artifacts belonging to legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks have been auctioned off for a reported $4.5 million, according to a lawyer involved in the sale, the Associated Press reports. The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, run by Howard G. Buffett, the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, purchased the items that once belonged to the…

A Florida man who allegedly went on a shooting rampage on Friday, killing three people, might have killed more had he not been accidentally struck by a truck, police told 10 News. According to witnesses who spoke with the news station, George Mason III reportedly shot and killed Jannie Taylor, 81; Ralph Peyton, 29; and…

Daniel Holtzclaw, the Oklahoma City police officer arrested in August and charged with sexually abusing eight black women, has supporters online who have raised more than $7,000, according to MLive.com. According to the Raw Story, the 27-year-old cop is facing charges of “rape, forcible oral sodomy, sexual batter and indecent exposure” for allegedly assaulting women he…