A homeless Nashua, N.H., man who had won settlements against two police departments in New Hampshire over arrests concerning panhandling and vagrancy was found dead in his cell at a Manchester, N.H., jail Sunday, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.  Jeffrey Pendleton was arrested last week on a misdemeanor charge for possessing marijuana and was…

Authorities are asking for the public’s assistance in finding the killer of a 12-year-old boy who died in a hail of bullets as he and a cousin walked to a convenience store in San Bernardino, Calif, the Associated Press reports.  The boys—Jason Spears, 12, and Terrance Spears, 14—were reportedly walking to the store around 10…

Abdi Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee who was seriously wounded in a police shooting in Salt Lake City, has emerged from a coma and is talking. Abdi’s cousin Muslima Weledi told the Associated Press that the teen was awake from the medically induced coma but remains on painkillers. Weledi visited him Saturday but said that he…

Former South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert has pleaded guiilty to charges of shooting an unarmed man at a Columbia, S.C., gas station in September 2014, WLTX reports.  On Monday, inside a courthouse in Richland County, S.C., Groubert entered the plea to charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in the…

Darryl Hunt, who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, was found dead in a car in Winston-Salem, N.C., early Sunday, the Charlotte Observer reports. Officers got a call about a person believed to be dead in a car near the Wake Forest University campus, where they found Hunt unresponsive.…

A Houston man reportedly ripped down a road sign and charged after officers before he was fatally wounded in an incident Saturday, KHOU reports.  According to the report, the officer who fired the shots attempted to stop and help the man when he lunged at the officer. The officer tried to tase the man twice,…

Federal prosecutors declined to bring charges against U.S. law-enforcement officers in a majority of cases involving charges of civil rights violations between 1995 and 2015, an investigation by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has revealed.  The newspaper reportedly delved into almost 3 million records from the Department of Justice related to how the 94 U.S. attorney’s offices…

Students at Humble High School in Texas were left in tears after an assembly about rape and domestic violence went terribly wrong, KHOU reports. The upset was sparked from a visiting speaker, who was brought in from a local domestic violence and sexual assault charity to speak to ninth- and 10th-grade girls for an event…

The Chicago Board of Education is seeking $65 million in damages and penalties from former Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Barbara Byrd-Bennett and other co-defendants involved in a multimillion-dollar bribery scandal, the Chicago Tribune reports.  “In plain terms, Defendants have stolen money from Plaintiff and the schoolchildren of the City of Chicago, and that money should…