African-American and Hispanic retail workers are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to staffers who are most likely to be paid more, promoted or given full-time jobs, a study conducted by the NAACP and the public policy group Demos found. African-American sales clerks, cashiers and low-level managers are paid the least…

Editor’s note: This article contains gruesome details about the alleged killing of an unborn baby. Four Dallas adults were recently arrested for severely assaulting a pregnant 14-year-old girl, and police believe the attack was an attempt to end the pregnancy, WFAA reports. The assault took place sometime between January and March 2013, according to court documents.…

Kelly Mayhew, a 34-year-old Maryland woman, was having silicone injected into her buttocks to enlarge them Saturday, her mother told police, when she became short of breath, was rushed to a nearby hospital and died, the New York Daily News reports. Mayhew, a freelancer for BET Networks, was having the cosmetic procedure administered in the…

Undercover federal agents managed to smuggle fake explosives and weapons through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints 67 out of the 70 times they tried to do so at dozens of airports around the country, the Associated Press reports. As a result, Melvin Carraway, the acting administrator of the TSA, has been reassigned and the entire agency…

More than 50 people staying in a homeless shelter in Salt Lake City were rushed to the emergency room this weekend to be treated for symptoms related to food poisoning, Raw Story reports. The group—which included 55 men, women and children—suffered from nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea. They were all temporary residents of the Road Home…

An official who sits on the executive committee of FIFA—the body governing the World Cup international soccer competition—was allegedly given $10 million so that he would vote for South Africa to host the 2010 games. That is just one example, American officials say, of how FIFA and marketing executives have been scheming and bribing officials…

When more women than men were elected to the Austin, Texas, City Council this year, Anthony Snipes, a city official, decided to organize a training session for council members on how to deal with women in local government, the Associated Press reports. Jonathan Allen, the consultant Snipes hired, dished out recommendations on how to handle…

Trameka Pope, a Chicago high school senior, gave birth to a baby girl the summer after eighth grade and decided then that she wasn’t going to become a statistic. Now she has more than 26 college-acceptance letters and has been awarded more than $600,000 in scholarships, People magazine reports.  “I was told that God don’t…

A U.S. Marine who was brought before a court-martial and then convicted of refusing to take down a Bible verse displayed on her computer screen has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, Fox News reports. Lance Cpl. Monifa Sterling was convicted in 2014 at Camp Lejune in North Carolina…

Holly Nicole Solomon was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for running her husband over with her SUV when she found out that he didn’t vote in the 2012 presidential elections, the Associated Press reports. Solomon, a 31-year-old Mesa, Ariz., resident, thought the political contest was especially important because Barack Obama was up for re-election—and subsequently…