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  • Son Allegedly Shoots Father at Repast for Brother’s Funeral Service in Baltimore

    The police are investigating a shooting that occurred at the New Song Worship & Arts Center in Baltimore after a son pulled a gun on his father at the post-funeral repast for his brother, the Baltimore Sun reports. Authorities say that the brother of Antonio Addison, a 22-year-old who was killed in West Baltimore last month,…

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  • Michael Dunn Appeals Murder Conviction for Shooting Jordan Davis in Loud-Music Case

    Michael Dunn, the Florida man who was convicted of murder for shooting Jordan Davis at a gas station in November 2012, is seeking to have his convictions and life sentence thrown out, the Florida Times-Union reports. Dunn had gotten into an argument with Jordan, 17, and his friends over the loud music coming from their vehicle…

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  • November Trial Set for Accused Charleston, SC, Church Shooter Dylann Roof

    The federal trial for accused Charleston, S.C., church shooter Dylann Roof has finally been set in motion, with jury selection scheduled for Nov. 7, the Associated Press reports. Roof is accused of killing nine members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church in Charleston, including pastor and state Sen. Clementa Pinckney. Roof is facing several…

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  • Black Students Nearly 4 Times as Likely to Be Suspended: Report

    Black students are almost four times as likely as white students to receive one or more out-of-school suspensions, new federal data released on Tuesday shows (pdf), underlining the grave disparity that still exists within the U.S. education system. The 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection survey looked at 16,758 school districts, encompassing 95,507 schools and 50,035,744…

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  • Ill. School Bus Monitor Denies Hitting 8-Year-Old Boy With Special Needs

    A 68-year-old Illinois woman, a former bus monitor for the First Student bus company, denies slapping and hitting an 8-year-old boy with special needs from the Naperville area of suburban Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports. The incident, which reportedly occurred in April, prompted an investigation, and now she is facing charges of misdemeanor battery. “This is…

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  • Helen Chavez, Widow of Civil Rights Icon Cesar Chavez, Dies at 88

    Helen Chavez, the widow of civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, died Monday at a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., at the age of 88, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to a statement from the Cesar Chavez Foundation, Helen Chavez died of natural causes, surrounded by family. Chavez was known for helping her husband with the…

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  • Los Angeles Serial Killer the 'Grim Sleeper' Should Be Sentenced to Death, Jury Decides

    A Los Angeles jury has decided that the serial killer known as the “Grim Sleeper” should face the death penalty for murdering nine women and a teenage girl in a 23-year killing spree, the Associated Press reports. Lonnie Franklin Jr., a 63-year-old former city trash collector and garage attendant for the city’s Police Department, was…

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  • Brian Banks, Wrongly Convicted of Rape as a Teen, Calls Stanford Case One of ‘Privilege’

    By now we are all familiar with the outrage sweeping the nation since a Santa Clara County, Calif., judge sentenced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to six months in county jail after the 20-year-old was convicted of raping an unconscious and intoxicated woman in 2015. However, Brian Banks, a once-promising high school football player who was…

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  • Hillary Clinton Has Enough Delegates to Secure Democratic Nomination

    Hillary Clinton has secured commitments from the number of delegates she needs to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, the Associated Press reports. An AP count of pledged delegates and its survey of superdelegates show that Clinton has gained the overall support of 2,383 delegates, which is the number necessary to snatch the nomination. According to…

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  • Ex-Marine Charged With Murder in Stabbing Death of 11-Year-Old in Houston

    Authorities have apprehended an ex-Marine from Houston and charged him with murder in the stabbing death of 11-year-old Josue Flores, in an attack that shook the neighborhood, CBS News reports. Andre Timothy Jackson Jr. was arrested Friday afternoon at a Salvation Army in downtown Houston and charged later that day. The 27-year-old ex-Marine is being…

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