Seven days after giving birth to twin boys, 56-year-old Lisa Swinton McLaughlin died on Jan. 4 from a “bowel obstruction,” the Daily Mail reports. Lisa McLaughlin lived in Baltimore and thought the pain she was experiencing in the days after giving birth was a result of the cesarean section she’d had, her husband, Mike McLaughlin,…

A miniature drone was found on White House grounds early Monday morning, triggering a security response and investigation from the Secret Service, the New York Daily News reports. The “2-foot quadcopter drone” landed in a tree on the Southeast side of the White House a little after 3 a.m., NBC News reports. The device “did…

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed drew the ire of a local police union because a photo he took in December recently resurfaced, and it shows the mayor alongside other African-American celebrities raising his hands in the “Hands up, don’t shoot” pose—a gesture that has become associated with the protests against the police killing of 18-year-old Michael…

The Internal Affairs Division of the San Francisco Police Department is investigating a Sunday incident caught on tape that appears to show a police officer almost pushing a man out of his wheelchair, SFGate reports.  Acording to the report, around four police officers were standing on a street corner responding to an incident pertaining to disorderly…

Arthur Scott, a San Diego police sergeant, is suing his Police Department because he believes that a cartoon shown during a training event was “racist” and depicted an African-American officer as a “monkey,” KGTV reports. Scott says that when he tried to communicate his concerns about the video, he “was transferred to a different division,”…

Georgia high school linebacker Brian Bell recently committed to Florida State University, but since he is one of the defendants named in a wrongful death suit filed by Kendrick Johnson’s family, some people find that news very upsetting, WTXL reports. Kendrick Johnson was the Georgia high school student who was found dead, rolled up in a…

A 13-year-old Tennessee girl was shot in the head during a drive-by shooting and later died earlier this month, and on Tuesday, police officers arrested the man they believe is responsible: 19-year-old Joseph Hendry, WKRN reports. C’Asia Watkins was sound asleep in her Lebanon, Tenn., home on Jan. 5 when it “was riddled with bullets,”…

Middleweight boxer Jermain Taylor was arrested at a Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Little Rock, Ark., Monday after he allegedly put a gun to a man’s head and threatened to shoot, the Associated Press reports.   During the parade, Taylor reportedly wielded his championship belt for everyone to see and then knelt down to give it…