The journalism world suffered a great loss Sunday when Michael J. Feeney, a veteran journalist who was set to start his dream job as an entertainment reporter at CNN.com, died of complications from a staph infection in his kidneys. He was 32. “Mike did everything to help everyone,” his mother, Reba Willis, told the New…

The U.S. Department of Justice is set to open an investigation into the San Francisco Police Department after disturbing video captured the shooting of a young black man and, in a separate incident, some officers reportedly shared homophobic and racist text messages. According to the Los Angeles Times, details of the review are expected to…

A St. Augustine, Fla., Burger King worker was arrested Wednesday after he reportedly set his uniform on fire after learning he had been let go. Timothy Alejandro Ortiz, 24, was supposed to return his uniform to his manager, but he allegedly stormed out of the store with his shirt and hat in hand and then,…

A Chicago man was found guilty Saturday of first-degree murder for giving a gun to his niece to handle a Facebook dispute. According to the Chicago Tribune, 27-year-old Donnell Flora was convicted over an April 2014 incident in which he gave his then-14-year-old niece a .38-caliber revolver, which prosecutors say the teen then carried to…

In January 2015, while cries from residents of Flint, Mich., that something was wrong with the tap water went ignored, state officials made provisions to have watercoolers installed at the State Office Building in Flint. It would be some eight months before city officials would admit that the tap water was unsafe to use, according…

Texas police are searching for a man who shot and killed a woman driving on a busy highway. According to KHOU, the incident happened Wednesday evening as traffic during rush hour was coming to a crawl. Twenty-six-year-old Brittany Daniel was driving on busy Arlington, Texas, Interstate 30 to take a co-worker home when a car,…

Virginia police arrested a mother Tuesday after she reportedly punched an assistant principal, knocking the woman unconscious, during a meeting at her child’s elementary school. According to ABC 13, 43-year-old Tracy Lawrence of Portsmouth went to Lakeview Elementary School demanding to speak to the assistant principal about a matter concerning her child. The news station…

It was supposed to have been a discussion about racial sensitivity during a meeting with members of the community after a group of Phoenix high school students used their T-shirts to spell out the n-word. Shortly after the meeting let out last week, 77-year-old attorney and civil rights leader Don Harris, who is white and…

The Ferguson, Mo., Police Department and the Justice Department have reached a tentative agreement to overhaul training, policies and practices in the wake of a federal investigation after the 2014 fatal police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown that uncovered unconstitutional and discriminatory practices. According to the Associated Press, the overhaul comes after seven months…

Quintonio LeGrier, the Chicago teen who was fatally shot by police, called 911 three times the day he was killed, asking for help, and was hung up on by a 911 operator, ABC News reports. According to ABC News, audio of the 19-year-old’s 911 calls made Dec. 26 were released late Monday by Chicago’s Independent…