An Illinois family wants answers after one of its members—a father of two—was shot and killed by police while at a hospital, reports the Chicago Tribune. Christopher Anderson, 27, was shot for allegedly refusing to put down a gun that police claim he drew after becoming irate with hospital staff.   “It doesn’t sound right at…

Chicago election judges are crying foul on the Republican Party, Raw Story reports. Two Republican Party committee members who were selected as election judges say they were told whom to vote for if they wanted to retain their Election Day jobs. The judges said their selection was withdrawn when they objected to being pressured on…

Diverse emojis are finally coming our way. According to the New York Daily News, Unicode Consortium, the coders behind emojis, will introduce a skin-tone modifier to their system to allow users to change the shade of the emoji of their choice. Over the past two years, celebrities including Miley Cyrus and Tahj Mowry have voiced…

A Dallas man has been arrested in the theft of 160,000 diapers from a charity, Captain Hope’s Kids, reports the Dallas News. Roderick Phillips, 39, was arrested on Oct. 22 for theft and evading arrest. Phillips is a former employee of the charity, which lost roughly $34,000 worth of diapers in the theft, which occurred Oct.…

Three more women have come forward to make claims against Daniel Holtzclaw, the Oklahoma police officer charged with raping eight black women while on duty, according to News 9. Holtzclaw was arrested and charged with 26 counts of rape, sexual battery, indecent exposure and oral sodomy after women came forward in August. Now three more…

SWAT-team members were sent to a neighborhood in Racine, Wis., when Kim Polk called authorities after a dispute over dog feces led a neighbor to threaten to attack her with a bow and arrow and a machete, reports the New York Daily News. Once police arrived, Polk’s neighbor threatened the police, too, with with his bow…

Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help finding a 22-year-old woman whose abduction was caught on tape, reports New York’s Daily News. Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was abducted while walking through Pennsylvania’s Germantown neighborhood around 9:40 p.m. on Nov. 2. Security video captured the assailant driving to the street, getting out of the four-door sedan and…

Comedian Wayne Brady sat down to tell Entertainment Tonight that he has suffered from depression for years, reports Page Six of the New York Post. In an interview set to air Monday, Brady told the show that his battle with depression had long been secret. “People are like, ‘Wayne Brady’s always happy!’ No, I’m not.…

An American citizen attempted to escape a Namibian prison, the Associated Press reports. In 2011 Marcus Kevin Tomas, a Los Angeles native, and another American, Kevin Townsend, were charged with the murder of Andre Hackmair, a Namibian national. Prison authorities say that Tomas climbed a tree outside Windhoek Central Prison and attempted to climb over…

The first lady of New York City says that the New York Post is “spreading lies.” Writing for the New York Daily News, Chirlane McCray says that a Post article quoting her criticism of New York City police Commissioner Bill Bratton for the resignation of black NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks is just false:…