Hunting helped save Gil Alexander’s life. It all started in 2008 when the Kansas farmer struck up a friendship with Rob Robinson, a 45-year-old firefighter from Mississippi who wanted to hunt on his property, the Associated Press reports. A few years later, Robinson returned again to the property to hunt, but at the same time…

Gospel music may have saved little Willie Myrick’s life. Earlier in April the then-9-year-old was in his front yard in Atlanta when he bent down to pick up some money. At that point someone snatched him up and threw him into the back of a car, WXIA reports. According to Willie, his abductor told him…

Veteran editor Mitzi Miller has been handed the reins of Ebony magazine and will take on her new position as editor-in-chief of the publication effective immediately, according to a press release. Desiree Rogers, CEO of the Johnson Publishing Co., which owns Ebony, made the announcement on Tuesday. “Mitzi is a gifted editor with tremendous energy…

A neighborhood in Pennsylvania’s Fairview Township will be under the protection of a new neighborhood watch group … made up of members of the local chapter of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, PennLive.com reports. That’s right: Members of the KKK are forming a neighborhood watch for the area. The move was…

When a 15-year-old managed to sneak his way into the wheel well of a jetliner and survive a five-hour flight to Hawaii, despite a lack of oxygen and freezing temperatures, he also sparked a national conversation about just how secure our nation’s airline fleet is. According to the Associated Press, authorities are trying to understand…

A New York mother is questioning why EMTs were late to the scene following a weekend fire in Queens that left her 4-year-old daughter and the girl’s half-brother, also 4, dead, The New York Post reports. Khalilah Waymer sang praises for the doctors at St. John’s Hospital saying they “broke their own rules” in trying…

Brooke Kimbrough is dead set on going to the University of Michigan—so set on it, in fact, that she is currently leading protests against her rejection from the university. She plans to continue her public calls to be accepted until her wish is granted. But Kimbrough says it’s not just about her—it’s for all minority…

Multitalented entertainer and current co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg debuted her first column for the online publication The Cannabist on Thursday, writing about her first experiences with a vape pen, which allows her to inhale concentrated marijuana “vapor.” Goldberg, who has glaucoma and gets excruciating headaches because of it, affectionally calls her own pen Sippy—it was a…

Prosecutors have decided not to press charges against wrestling-team members of New Jersey’s Phillipsburg High School who posed in a picture with a black dummy in a noose, CBS New York reports. “Based upon the evidence obtained and the concurrence of the Attorney General’s Office after reviewing the investigative file, no criminal charges will be…