Politics can make strange bedfellows, with Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan finding a commonality in Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Trump “is the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said, ‘I don’t want your money,’” Farrakhan said during a weekend sermon, Politico reports. “Any time a man…

On Thursday a Montgomery, Ala., police officer shot and killed Greg Gunn, 58, steps away from Gunn’s home. On Monday, Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange and Police Chief Ernest Finley held a press conference, where Gunn’s brother Franklin Gunn asked them both for five minutes. Five minutes, he said, that had his brother been afforded the…

Prince William County Police Officer Ashley Guindon, 28, completed her official ceremony to join the Virginia force Friday and was working her first full shift Saturday when she responded to a domestic violence call with two other officers. When Guindon and her fellow officers arrived at the front door, “the subject opened fire,” Prince William…

On Sunday, Feb. 21, Kisha Michael, 31, and Marquintan Sandlin, 32, had finished their date, according to family, and pulled off the road to take a nap. Inglewood, Calif., police responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle around 3 a.m. Very little information has been released as to what happened next, but according to…

Around 12:30 p.m. Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, as the St. Peters Missionary Baptist Church choir was singing, the Rev. William Schooler’s younger brother walked into his office and shot and killed him, police believe. According to WDTN, police arrested Daniel Gregory Schooler, who is now being held at the Montgomery County Jail, where he is…

A 24-year-old woman was caught at Kennedy Airport in New York City hiding a half-pound of cocaine in her vagina, authorities say. According to the New York Daily News, Shekira Thompson of Queens, N.Y., was returning from a trip to her native Jamaica when she was pulled out of line by U.S. Customs officers for…

A Massachusetts teen who followed his teacher into a school bathroom, then raped and killed her, was sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole in 40 years. According to the Associated Press, Philip Chism, who was 14 at the time of the incident, was convicted in December 2013 in the death of Danvers…

The Library of Congress has taken civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs and made the entire collection available online. According to the Associated Press, the collection of 10,000 items belonging to Parks was made available to the public Wednesday, and we have philanthropist Howard Buffett to thank. That’s…

Nine-year-old Edmund Lee is a great student. He’s a third-grader at Gateway Science Academy, a charter school in south St. Louis. He’s been a student there since kindergarten, and he wants to stay there, but an archaic law on the city’s books won’t allow him to attend the school anymore because he’s black. Everything was…