A noose was found hanging from a tree on Duke University’s campus early Wednesday morning, the school newspaper The Chronicle reports. It’s the latest in a string of racially offensive incidents that have been occurring on college campuses nationwide. A student at the University of Mississippi suspected of draping a noose and a Confederate flag…

Anthony Stokes, a 17-year-old Georgia teen who captured national headlines in 2013 after initially being denied a heart transplant because of run-ins with the law—and who would later receive a heart transplant—died Tuesday, the New York Daily News reports, after crashing a stolen car into a pole while fleeing an armed robbery, officials said. Stokes…

Harry Draughn is claiming in a lawsuit that he was hazed while trying to join a Maryland alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, the Washington Post reports. What’s more alarming is that Draughn says the man who led the hazing is a Maryland police officer. Jesse Stewart Jr. is reportedly the intake chairman of the…

When Phyllis Jefferson, 50, an Ohio woman, saw that her boyfriend had eaten all the salsa they were sharing, she stabbed him with a pen, a report claims, and then went to get a small kitchen knife and stabbed 61-year-old Ronnie Buckner again in the stomach, NBC News reports.   According to reports, between stabbing Buckner…

Danielle Zimmerman, 41, had just suffered a brain aneurysm and crashed her car into a Taco Bell drive-thru in Kansas when, prosecutors say, 21-year-old Dacquantrius Johnson and two of his friends approached Zimmerman’s car and stole her purse and the wedding ring off her finger—all while Zimmerman lay dying in the car, the New York…

In order for Navy SEAL teams to hunt down terrorists, or for foreign policy analysts to track the movement of WMDs—or to detect whether Iran is, in fact, developing a nuclear weapons program—our leaders rely on special pilots to capture that type of intelligence through the use of spy-plane cameras. Merryl Tengesdal (that’s Lt. Col.…

Rudeness will not be tolerated in Kyesha Smith Wood’s Alabama household, even if it occurs in a public space like a movie theater—and even it happens when Wood, a mother of three, is not there. When Wood caught wind of how her daughter and stepdaughter were acting the plum fool at a local movie theater…

When Hannah Tate, 18, sent celebrity hairstylist Tokyo Stylez a message on Instagram asking him to make her a wig for her prom, she had no idea that Stylez would be at her doorstep Saturday, the day of her prom, with a full glam team in tow, ready to treat Tate, a cancer survivor, to…

Administrators at Connecticut College thought it best to cancel classes Monday to allow students to deal with a string of racially offensive incidents that have occurred on campus in recent weeks, Raw Story reports. First, campus authorities found the words “no n—gers” on a bathroom wall this past weekend. The college’s dean of students immediately…

Classrooms are filling up again in Sierra Leone now that the Ebola crisis is under control, but the outbreak didn’t only claim the lives of some students; it also created an environment that led to a spike in pregnancies, RFI reports. That, too, is affecting attendance, since pregnant girls are not allowed to come to…