The conviction against San Francisco Police Officer Ian Furminger was supposed to end there, with him serving jail time for robbing drug dealers during his tenure as a supervisor in his bureau’s plainsclothes unit, CBS SF reports. But during a court filing, federal prosecutors came across racist and homophobic texts sent between Furminger and three…

Chyemil Pierce, 30, had just picked up her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son from a Bay Area, Calif., day care when she heard shots ring out in front of her home. Pierce rushed toward her children to protect them and told them to run. When police officers arrived on the street to investigate the shooting…

Sgt. Gregory McQueen’s role at an Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, was to support sexual assault survivors at the same time he was reportedly organizing a prostitution ring at the base. McQueen was sentenced to two years in prison for “pandering and conspiracy to solicit prostitution,” the Daily Mail reports. McQueen recruited female soldiers…

The only two historically black female colleges still up and running in the nation—Spelman College in Atlanta and Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C.—are commemorating Women’s History Month by having their choirs perform together at a joint concert March 16, WFMY News 2 reports. The gig—a first for both schools—is aptly called a “her-storic” event and will take…

Instead of having a luxurious spa day to celebrate a birthday, three women had four police officers come into their private room at a Brooklyn, N.Y., spa Feb. 19 to ask if the credit card they had used to pay for the services was, in fact, stolen, the New York Daily News reports. And even…

One would never know that Rudy Giuliani was once a fairly moderate mayor of a liberal Northeastern city like New York, judging by the string of controversial comments he’s made recently. A few weeks after saying that President Barack Obama doesn’t love America, during a radio interview Thursday he suggested that Obama is to blame…

Roshika Smith, 18, felt the wrath of her private school’s corporal-punishment policy March 4 when she was held down by fellow students at Florida’s Zarephath Academy so that a teacher could paddle her, News4Jax reports. The incident was caught on video. Smith’s mother is threatening to take legal action against the school and the parents…

Adding to what is becoming a long list of President Barack Obama’s Secret Service agents dropping the ball or behaving inappropriately, the Washington Post is reporting that two senior agents attended a party, consumed alcohol and allegedly crashed their government car into security barricades that were positioned by the White House on March 4. One…

Thomas Jackson, chief of the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, will resign Wednesday, Reuters is reporting via Fox News. The news comes nearly a week after a Justice Department investigation found that the Ferguson police force harbored racial biases and acted on them, much to the detriment of the city’s African-American community. The DOJ investigation was prompted by…

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered Tuesday to cough up nearly $7.4 million to Marvin Gaye’s children after a judge found that the duo copied Marvin Gaye’s music to create their 2013 hit single “Blurred Lines,” the Associated Press reports. “Right now I feel free,” said Nona Gaye, Martin Gaye’s daughter. According to AP,…