A Michigan man savagely beaten by five men after he accidentally struck a 10-year-old boy with his truck has been released from the hospital some six weeks after the attack, the New York Daily News reports. Steven Utash, a tree trimmer, was driving in Detroit on April 2 when a 10-year-old boy slipped from the…

A Maryland man who took his unresponsive 3-year-old son to the hospital earlier this year is now in custody on first-degree child-abuse and manslaughter charges, WUSA-9 reports. Police believe that Thomas Everett Holland, 38, gave the child lethal amounts of cocaine, acetaminophen and codeine after autopsy and toxicology reports showed that the child could not have…

A mother whose 5-year-old son was shot in the arm during a Mother’s Day shootout in the Richmond, Va., project where they live told NBC 12 that she would rather be homeless than move back there with her child. Tiara Saunders has only been home to the Whitcomb Court housing projects once, to gather clothes…

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston didn’t protest when he was caught stealing more than $30 worth of crab legs from a Florida grocery store, and now the video shows why. Security-camera footage from the Publix supermarket, released Thursday by the Leon County Sheriff’s Office in Tallahassee, Fla., shows exactly what happened that day in April…

Looks like Donald Sterling will not go quietly into the night, since the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner is refusing to pay the $2.5 million that he has been fined, and his newly hired attorney has sent a letter to the NBA threatening to sue, ESPN.com reports. According to SI.com, Sterling’s lawyer, Max Blecher, sent…

Columbus Short, the controversial former star of Scandal, made a brief appearance in a California court to plead not guilty to felony battery charges for allegedly knocking a man unconscious in a bar brawl in West Hollywood in March. Short, who has been the subject of many news reports since it was announced that he…

In the almost all-white town of Wolfeboro, N.H., resident Jane O’Toole was in a restaurant in March when, she says, she overheard the police commissioner use the n-word. She wrote the town manager about the language. Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland wrote her back acknowledging that he’d called the president the n-word and adding that…

Violence erupted again near the Nigerian village where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, with the Associated Press reporting that gunfire between Islamic militants and the Nigerian military left 12 soldiers dead and led to some soldiers firing on a commanding officer as he left the scene. According to a witness who spoke to AP,…

A California couple who both worked at San Francisco International Airport were sentenced to jail for stealing passengers’ luggage in the aftermath of last year’s fatal crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214. Sean Sharif Crudup, 44, and his wife, Raychas Elizabeth Thomas, 32, both of Richmond, Calif., were sentenced this week to nine months and…

Michael Sam has to be the most celebrated seventh-round pick never to have played a single NFL game. As the first openly gay NFL player, Sam has signed an endorsement deal with Visa; his jersey sales have been second only to Johnny Manziel, aka Johnny Football; and now the Oprah Winfrey Network will be chronicling…