The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of a 29-year-old man who died while in police custody in a downtown Jackson jail, WAPT reports.  “We have had an incident occur here at the Jackson Jail, and we want to be as transparent as we can about it,” Jackson Police Chief Lee Vance…

A Memphis, Tenn., police officer was fatally shot multiple times Sunday, making him the second officer on the force to be shot dead in a little over two months, the Associated Press reports.  Officer Terence Olridge, 31, was taken to the hospital after being discovered in a home in the suburb of Cordova but later…

We’ve all been there. We’re in a foreign place and something goes wrong with our car, and we’re stuck searching for a way to fix it before any further issue can arise—without being half extorted for our money for an emergency repair. Well, now there’s an app for that. GreaseMonkey Mobile LLC is the brainchild of Stephan…

A California man was arraigned earlier this week on charges of murder and desecration of human remains after allegedly detailing to investigators how he killed his mother and how “good” he felt after the brutal slaying, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.  Omar Mark Pettigen of Fremont was arraigned Tuesday at the Fremont Hall of Justice.…

A Catskill, N.Y., mom is furious after her crying fifth-grader detailed how a support-staff employee at Catskill Elementary School told the child and her black friends that they shouldn’t be sitting together because they looked like a black “gang in the hood,” the Catskill Daily Mail reports.  The employee who allegedly made the remarks has…

It’s never too early in October (or in the year, period), for a solid dose of blackface, apparently. According to the Los Angeles Times, a “Kanye Western”-themed frat party at UCLA is prompting student protests after some partygoers showed up wearing blackface—because of course they would. Cute theme name, not-so-cute theme attire.  The party, hosted…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has come under harsh criticism after he suggested that he would fight a gunman and “not just stand there and let him shoot me,” a seemingly dismissive response to the recent mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore. Now Carson is backing up his supposed bravado, recounting, on Wednesday…

A Minnesota man has been charged with two felonies after allegedly pulling a knife on a 13-year-old girl who reportedly made fun of his white supremacist tattoos, the Post Bulletin reports. Jamie Lee Chris Schammel, 35, of Austin was charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon and making terrorist threats, but he has since…

Amos Newsome, commissioner of Dothan, Ala.’s District 2, was arrested Tuesday after being caught on camera hitting a local television reporter twice, causing injury, the Dothan Eagle reports. Newsome, 82, was taken into custody and charged with third-degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor. The commissioner reportedly hit WTVY reporter Ken Curtis Tuesday after the reporter…