The sister of a 29-year-old man charged with fatally shooting a Memphis, Tenn., police officer said the shooting was in self-defense because the officer was too aggressive and left her brother no choice. Callie Watkins, 28, claims that before her brother, Tremaine Wilbourn, turned himself in to police, he told her his version of events.…

An 11-year-old Detroit boy has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of 3-year-old Elijah Walker in what police are calling a tragic accident. According to ClickonDetroit, the 11-year-old, who has not been identified because he is not being charged as an adult, took the gun from his father’s closet and tossed it out…

Cedric Jackson walked into Rick’s Food Mart in Rome, Ga., Saturday, checked his lottery numbers and figured he had lost. He asked the clerk if he wouldn’t mind throwing them out, and left the store. Later that night, he realized that while he hadn’t won the grand prize, he may have tossed out two winning…

Ever found yourself hungry with barely enough loose change to make a dollar and really wanted a steak? Well, you’re in luck, my friend, because Dollar Tree discount stores sell Stampede’s $1 boneless-ribeye, preseasoned steak! Sure, some reviewers are saying that it’s tougher than long division and thinner than a whisper on a windy day.…

Deidra Reid and Reginald Lane Jr. thought they were just going to visit a friend Monday, maybe hang out by the pool, but an encounter with a young boy whose father is a Orange County, Fla., deputy sheriff ended with the pair being arrested and Reid’s arm in a sling. “This is someone who used…

Turns out that the gin bottle Samuel Dubose handed to a University of Cincinnati officer, who would later kill him with a single gunshot to the head, didn’t contain gin at all but was, in fact, filled as Dubose had said: with air freshener. The July 19 exchange between Officer Ray Tensing, 33, and Dubose, 43,…

In May 2014, Ray Tensing, the University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the death of Sam Dubose, stopped a vehicle carrying two young black men. The bumper was dragging on the car Sexton Henley was driving. Demetrius Pace was a passenger. The two believed the officer was harassing them, so Pace started…

Memphis, Tenn., police are searching for Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, in the fatal shooting of Officer Sean Bolton after the officer reportedly interrupted a small-time drug deal. According to the Associated Press, Wilbourn has been identified as a suspect and faces a first-degree-murder charge in the 33-year-old officer’s death. Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong told those…

President Barack Obama has done nothing for African Americans and “set the bar very low,” according to Donald Trump, who also says he thinks Obama’s done such a bad job, there won’t be another black president for a long time. In an interview with ABC News Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate said that President Obama…