The public will not know exactly what was said during the grand jury hearings that ended with a decision not to indict New York City Police Department officers in the choke hold death of Eric Garner. A judge on Thursday refused to release the testimony, the Associated Press reports. According to AP, “The New York…

Martese Johnson, the University of Virginia honors student who was arrested by authorities early Wednesday, did not try to use a fake ID to enter a bar, his attorney said at a news conference Thursday in Charlottesville, Va. Early reports suggested that the third-year student had tried to use a fake ID to enter the…

On March 2 a friend dropped off Otis Byrd at the Riverwalk Casino in Vicksburg, Miss. On March 8, members of the Byrd family reported the 54-year-old missing. On Thursday, Claiborne County, Miss., authorities found a man’s body, believed to be Byrd’s, hanged from a tree by a bed sheet, causing many in the area…

Disgraced NFL running back O.J. Simpson used to make astonishing cuts on the football field, but cutting a jailhouse medication line may have the Hall of Famer running for his life. According to the Daily Mail, the 67-year-old Simpson is housed in the minimum-security section of a Nevada prison, but when it comes time for…

On Wednesday evening, University of Virginia students gathered to protest the beating and arrest of third-year student Martese Johnson, 20, who was accosted by Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control officers in what many witnesses call an unprovoked attack after Johnson was denied entry to a bar. UVA students marched through the streets of Charlottesville…

Harmony Jones lives in Memphis, Tenn., and was excited about her 10th-birthday party last week, which included a sleepover at her house. But Harmony’s parents were shocked to learn that one of their daughter’s friends at Highland Oaks Elementary wouldn’t be able to attend the festivities because Harmony is black. Fox 13 reports that Harmony’s…

Shanesha Taylor, the Phoenix woman whose tearful mug shot went viral after she was arrested for leaving her two small children in her car while she attended a job interview, has pleaded guilty to child abuse. According to AZ Central, after Taylor’s arrest March 20, 2014, a crowdfunding campaign raised $114,000 in donations, and Taylor’s…

Two plainclothes Los Angeles police officers traveling in an unmarked car sustained minor injuries in a shooting Sunday afternoon at the intersection where officers fatally shot unarmed Ezell Ford last year. According to the Los Angeles Times, the two unnamed officers were driving at 65th Street and Broadway when several men opened fire. The officers…

James Robertson, the Detroit man whose story of walking some 21 miles to and from his job went viral and included an outpouring of donations, has taken out a restraining order against his ex-girlfriend, who reportedly wants some of his newfound wealth. “He said he was going to give me $50,000 to fix up the…

Police arrested a 16-year-old girl Thursday in connection with the savage beating of a teenage girl caught on tape inside a McDonald’s in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. According to the New York Daily News, Aniah Ferguson, who police note can be seen during the three-minute attack wearing a hoodie and then only…