Updated Monday, May 12, 1:10 p.m. EDT: Community pressure may have forced Sgt. Mourad Mourad to decline the Cop of the Year award after several news outlets reported on public outrage over the choice of recipient: a nine-year veteran of the police force who was involved in the controversial fatal shooting of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, according…

An Oklahoma death row inmate has been given a six-month stay of execution while officials investigate how the lethal injection of a different inmate, Clayton Lockett, went horribly wrong, the New York Daily News reports. Charles Warner was to have been executed the same day as Lockett in what would have been Oklahoma’s first double…

Tech giant Apple is in negotiations to buy Beats Electronics—the company founded by rapper Dr. Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine that produces the über-popular Beats by Dre headphones—for $3.2 billion, according to several reports. Reports from the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal all confirm the negotiations, and…

Residents of the small town of Hearne, Texas, are demanding the immediate firing of a police officer who shot and killed a 93-year-old woman. Authorities say Officer Stephen Stem shot 93-year-old Pearlie Golden on Tuesday after responding to a call from her nephew that Golden was threatening him with a gun, KBTX-TV reports. According to…

Nigeria’s government is offering about $310,000 for information leading to the return of more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants as the country acknowledges increased international assistance to help find the girls, CNN reports. During a World Economic Forum speech Thursday, President Goodluck Jonathan opined that the global outcry inspired by the kidnappings would be the…

If the NBA really wants to get tough on racism and dish out lifetime bans and make a stand against bigotry, then the only recourse it has is to move the franchise out of Sterling control—and not just Donald Sterling’s but the entire Sterling clan’s. On Thursday his wife, Shelly Sterling, announced that she wants to take…

The family of a Texas teenager who was paralyzed after the driver of the truck he was riding in slammed into three good samaritans is set to receive more than $2 million, according to court documents seen by USA Today. Sergio Molina, 17, was injured after 16-year-old Ethan Couch crashed his pickup into a group…

In another show of force, Islamist terrorists who have claimed responsibility for the mass abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls are now believed to have opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of shoppers taking advantage of a cool night in Nigeria’s semidesert Northeast region. According to the Associated Press, some 300 people…

On Tuesday the mother of a Chicago teen who collapsed on the basketball court during a game over the weekend made the most difficult decision a parent hopes never to have to make: Tarcia Patton decided to take her son, Jermaine Cullum, off life support, WLS-Chicago reports.   “It was so hard, I couldn’t think…

Just last week, Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant’s basketball hometown paper called him “Mr. Unreliable,” and on Tuesday he was crowned the NBA’s Most Valuable Player. A normally subdued Durant couldn’t fight back the emotion as he recalled the tireless effort his mother put forth in raising the family. “We weren’t supposed to be here,” he…