Once again, people in the fashion industry are taking the not-so-fashionable (read: really racist) route, with A.P.C. founder Jean Touitou deciding that it would be OK to use the n-word throughout the presentation for his Fall 2015 men’s collection, Style.com reports.    According to the news site, on Sunday the French designer used the slur…

A York, Pa., man faces two counts of felony aggravated assault and reckless endangerment after he allegedly shot a 15-year-old who was reportedly part of a group throwing snowballs, Fox 43 reports. Charging documents indicate that police were responding to a report about shots being fired a little after 2 p.m. on Saturday. A witness…

Three Kansas City, Mo., teenagers have been charged in the grisly murder of an eighth-grader whom they allegedly beat up before taking turns shooting the young girl, KCTV reports. Alexis Kane’s body was found Jan. 11 outside the Bay Waterpark not far from Smith-Hale Middle School, where Alexis was a student. According to the report,…

Jonathan Walker, the Queens father who police say shot his girlfriend and two children before shooting himself, did so out of jealousy, the New York Post reports. According to the news site, sources said that the 34-year-old was overheard at a liquor store on Friday night telling people that his girlfriend and common-law wife, Shantai…

Members of the clergy have started a new hashtag, #UseMeInstead, imploring police to use their images for target practice after news broke that North Miami Beach’s Police Department was using mug shots of black men, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, the idea to send out photos of the clergy for target practice…

The Arlington Police Department in Texas has released surveillance video from an ATM in hopes of identifying and catching a robber and kidnapper who forced an unsuspecting woman into her trunk earlier this month, CBS DFW reports. The kidnapping occurred at a drive-through ATM at a Wells Fargo bank Jan. 14, where the victim, choosing…

Norwood, Ohio, Mayor Thomas Williams penned a letter to his local Police Department, voicing his support for the boys in blue, who he feels are “under attack by race-baiting black leaders and cowardly elected officials,” Talking Points Memo reports. The letter was officially written on Dec. 22, days after New York City police officers Wenjian…

Updated Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:15 p.m. EST: In a statement, McDonald’s USA told The Root that it had not seen the lawsuit but would be reviewing the matter “carefully.”  “We have not seen the lawsuit, and cannot comment on its allegations, but will review the matter carefully,” the statement read. “McDonald’s has a long-standing history of embracing the…

A 19-year-old suspect was fatally shot by St. Louis police after he allegedly got out of a stolen car holding a gun and confronted the responding officers Wednesday night, Chief Sam Dotson confirmed, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Police patrolling the neighborhood had reportedly been following the car, a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo that…

A high school girls’ basketball coach in Cobb County, Ga., is facing multiple charges after she allegedly bit another coach in the face twice and threatened to beat the man, even throwing a chair inside a school office, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Melonie Joyce Martin, who coaches the South Cobb High School girls’ team, was…