A desire for the comforts of home is apparently what led Mexican police to the doorstep of fugitive “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch and his mother: The pair reportedly used a cellphone to order from Domino’s Pizza, according to the New York Daily News. The Texas teen gained national attention after a 2013 fatal drunken-driving crash…

A New York City family was moved from a shelter in the Elmhurst section of the borough of Queens after their child was reportedly spit on, called a “n—ger” and taunted for living in a homeless facility. According to DNAinfo New York, the child, whose name was withheld by the news site, was inside a…

The father of Quintonio LeGrier, the 19-year-old who was fatally shot alongside his 55-year-old neighbor by Chicago police last week, filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that the officer shot his son without justification. According to CNN, Antonio LeGrier filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Monday. In addition to claiming that the…

Eslam Mohamed and his family went to an Olive Garden in Georgia on Christmas Eve, and when he asked for the check for his table of 12, he received a receipt with the message, “Paid. Merry Christmas Beautiful Family” written across it. Turns out that an anonymous customer, who embodied the true spirit of the…

Ethan Couch—who became infamous after a fatal 2013 drunken-driving crash for which his lawyers argued that the Texas teen should be spared jail time because he suffered from “affluenza,” an affliction of wealth with little understanding of consequences—has been captured in Mexico. NBC News reports that Couch, 18, was detained along with his mother in…

Bettie Jones, 55, received a call early Saturday morning asking if she could help police gain access to her building. According to ABC 7 Chicago, Jones’ neighbor in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood, Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was wielding a bat and acting erratically, so his father called police and then called downstairs to ask if…

A Florida man has been arrested, accused of opening fire inside a local McDonald’s after an argument with another man about his food order. According to the Miami Herald, police arrested 23-year-old Devin Gibbs of Miami on Saturday in connection with the shooting inside the fast-food restaurant. A witness told WSVN that the suspect and another…

Newly released audio recordings indicate that at least one Chicago officer asked radio dispatch for Taser support to subdue 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Radio calls made Oct. 20, 2014, and obtained by NBC Chicago and released Wednesday, demonstrate that minutes before the teen was fatally shot 16 times, an officer tried to request nonlethal force. “Someone…

An Idaho lunch lady was canned just days before Christmas for giving a hungry middle school student with no money a $1.70 lunch. “I handed her the food and said, ‘Here, we’ll take care of it in a minute,” ‘ Irving Middle School cafeteria worker Dalene Bowden told KPVI after the Dec. 15 incident. Bowden says…

Updated Wednesday, Dec. 23, 5:58 p.m. EST: According to a press release put out by several Black Lives Matter chapters, the protests are part of a “Black Xmas” campaign happening in Minneapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area.  Declaring Dec. 23 “Black Xmas,” protesters referenced the death of Sandra…