Home Depot is apologizing for what some are calling a racist tweet sent out by the megastore. The tweet shows two African-American drummers and a third man in a monkey mask with the caption, “Which drummer is not like the others?” The hardware chain store tweeted the photo on Thursday and then promptly took it…

A second suspect is in custody and has been charged with the abduction and killing of a Mississippi family, the Associated Press and ABC News reports. While authorities say that they are still piecing together exactly what happened on the night when 7-year-old Jaidon Hill, 30-year-old Atira Hughes-Smith and her husband, 34-year-old Laterry Smith, were…

The family of Kendrick Johnson, the young man found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat in his high school gymnasium, believes the video surveillance footage that a judge ordered released to them has been tampered with, CNN reports. CNN also obtained what they are calling a “scathing report” written by the coroner in the Johnson…

Former Dallas Cowboy running back Tony Dorsett has been diagnosed with exhibiting signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative condition many scientists have attributed to head trauma and believe is linked to dementia and depression, doctors told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.” The Hall of Fame running back, who amassed more than 12,000 yards with the…

Renisha McBride was involved in a car accident around 2:30 last Sunday morning. She sought help once she realized her cellphone battery had died. The 19-year-old would later be found dead on the porch of the Dearborn Heights, Mich., home where she went to seek assistance, the Detroit News reports. McBride was driving her 2001 white…

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius dropped a bombshell during a Senate hearing Wednesday. According to the New York Post, Sebelius admitted that “navigators” who help folks enroll in Obamacare could in fact be felons. “A convicted felon could be a navigator and could acquire sensitive personal information from an individual unbeknownst to them?” asked…

The 16-year-old son of New York’s newly crowned mayor-elect, Bill de Blasio, isn’t ready for a change of address just yet, the New York Daily News reports. Becoming mayor means the family moves to Gracie Mansion in the Upper East Side, which is awesome—unless you go to high school way over in Brooklyn. “I’m still…

A 19-year-old New York University student who lay trapped between a two-foot-wide shaft between a building and a garage for almost two days yelled for help as he drifted in and out of consciousness. Asher Vongtau also had thoughts of the movie 127 Hours, about a man who, while hiking in Utah, gets trapped under a boulder…

The History Channel is set to remake one of the biggest and most successful miniseries ever, Roots, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The cable network has acquired the rights to both the original miniseries as well as the book, Roots: the Saga of an American Family, from Alex Haley’s estate. Mark Wolper, son of the…