When New York City occupational therapist Debra Fisher discovered that one of her special needs students, 13-year-old Aaron Philip, had a talent for video animation, Fisher coordinated a fundraiser to help Aaron create a multimedia project that would help other special needs kids. Fisher sent emails to other staffers at Public School 333 in Manhattan…

On Monday the White House revealed that President Barack Obama regrets that he did not send a more senior U.S. official to the march in Paris on Sunday to denounce terrorism. Heads of state from a number of countries gathered to commemorate the shooting attacks against journalists, police officers and hostages that occurred in France…

When Amedy Coulibaly—one of the assailants responsible for the shooting attacks in France last week—threatened to kill hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris, a young Muslim man led people to a walk-in freezer below the supermarket to shield them from harm, CNN reports. Lassana Bathily, an employee at the Hyper Cacher supermarket, is being…

Grant Morrison, a Montana police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in April, sobbed several minutes after the shooting occurred once he realized that the man didn’t have a gun, a dash-cam video recently released to the public reveals. Morrison shot and killed Richard Ramirez, a 38-year-old man who was sitting in his car…

Amedy Coulibaly—one of the assailants responsible for the wave of attacks that claimed the lives of journalists, police officers and hostages in France last week—appears in a video released to the public on Sunday in which he attempts to justify the attacks.  “What we are doing is completely legitimate, given what they are doing,” Coulibaly,…

Dante Martin—the former de facto student president of the hazing rituals conducted by Florida A&M University’s marching band—was sentenced to 77 months in prison (almost six-and-a-half years) for the 2011 hazing death of FAMU student and drum major Robert Champion, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Before Martin’s sentencing on manslaughter charges in Champion’s death, his family,…

Matthew Ajibade, a 22-year-old Nigerian native who was in the U.S. studying computer science at Savannah Technical College, died last week in a Georgia holding cell while he was in police custody. Two sheriff’s deputies have been placed on administrative leave without pay until the investigation into Ajibade’s death is concluded, CNN reports. Ajibade was…

On Friday, French officials announced that Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two brothers suspected of gunning down staffers in the Paris newsroom of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, were shot dead by police in front of a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goële, a town outside Paris, CNN reports. French law-enforcement officials also described how they engaged another…

On Monday night a New York judge saw only 30 defendants come before him instead of the usual 60 to 90. One arraignment courtroom was used instead of two, the New York Times describes, and the judge closed down shop 45 minutes early because there were “no more cases to call.” According to the Times,…

Matthew Christian Cash, a 24-year-old Pennsylvania man with a lengthy rap sheet, attempted to run over as many of New York City’s Port Authority police officers as possible Wednesday night near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, the New York Post reports. Fortunately, Cash’s car missed the officers who were patrolling the tunnel and instead…