A Texas father has been charged with capital murder after allegedly beating his sons so severely over their lack of progress in potty training that one of the children died, KHOU-TV reports. According to the news station, 24-year-old Anthony Trakemon Powell could face the death penalty for the death of 3-year-old Tristan Powell. Charges for…

A former elementary school employee is not sorry she broke the law when she decided to give school lunches to kids who didn’t have money for food, CBS Denver reports. Della Curry, who worked as a kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora, Colo., was fired by the Cherry Creek School District after…

A sheriff’s second-in-command in Louisiana is accused of discriminating against a co-worker and using a racial slur against the employee, the New Orleans Advocate reports. Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jerry Ursin allegedly threatened employee Ronald Coleman Sr., calling him a “stupid, ungrateful n—ger” during an altercation involving parking last summer, the news site notes.…

“Monkey” and “blackie” were only two of the racially charged slurs that were allegedly hurled at the only black bus driver at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn, N.Y., Newsweek reports. Willis Baker claims in a lawsuit that while employed at the United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park Inc. last year, he was not only…

William Chapman’s family believes that his case is akin to that of Michael Brown. However, unlike Brown’s death in Ferguson, Mo., in August, Chapman’s April 22 death barely made a wave among activists and the media, The Guardian reports. “I feel alone,” Chapman’s mother, Sallie, told the news site. “Because my son is gone and because…

Former Duke University basketball star Nolan Smith tweeted about a confrontation with Durham, N.C., police in which officers making a traffic stop approached him, allegedly with guns drawn. Smith was in the state this week preparing for the annual K Academy College Basketball Fantasy Camp when the alleged encounter occurred. According to Sporting News, a…

Floyd Dent, a Michigan resident who was brutally beaten by a police officer in Inkster during a traffic stop in January, settled his lawsuit for almost $1.4 million on Thursday, The Guardian reports, the same day the officer involved appeared in court to learn whether he would be headed to trial. According to the report,…

His final wish was to go through the tunnel leading into his high school’s football stadium with his team one last time. Coffee County High School football players honored their teammate Malik Sparkman’s dying wish and carried the talented linebacker’s coffin through the tunnel and across the field to the end zone, WSB-TV reports. According…

A Bronx, N.Y., police officer who also works as a pastor and was facing multiple charges for allegedly being in a relationship with a 16-year-old girl was cleared of all charges Wednesday, the New York Post reports. A judge cleared Vladimir Sosa, an officer with the 46th Precinct, after prosecutors reportedly could not prove that…

Boston police are asking the public for any tips about the person who shot a 7-year-old while the child was riding his bike, ABC News reports.  According to the report, second-grader Divan Silva was riding to the store to get water early Sunday evening in Dorchester, a neighborhood in the city, when he was hit…