As it turns out, the body of a Washington, D.C., grandmother was never missing. It was always her body lying in a casket at Horton’s Funeral Home, News4 reports.  “The physician determined it is my grandmother. We had them to strip her down of all of her makeup and put her in her natural light—as…

Gainesville, Fla., Police Officer Bobby White isn’t done with his good deeds yet.  The officer first caught national attention when he responded to a noise complaint about neighborhood kids playing basketball outside by joining their game instead of reprimanding them. The dash-cam video of him playing around with the kids went viral, along with the…

The brother of an Ohio pastor who is accused of shooting and killing the pastor during a Sunday church service has pleaded not guilty, court records note, Reuters reports.  The man, Daniel Gregory Schooler, 68, is facing a possible life sentence without parole if convicted in the murder of his brother, the Rev. William B…

Kam Chancellor of the Seattle Seahawks was looking into an investment opportunity Wednesday when he ended up having to chat with police instead because two employees at the business got nervous and called 911, Fox Sports reports.  According to the report, Chancellor was checking out a Redmond, Wash., gym that had recently lost its lease…

A black couple are upset after realizing that the receipt they were given at an Austin, Texas, IHOP had the words “BLACK PPL” written at the top of it, Fox 7 reports.  Even more surprising to them, they say, is the fact that their waiter was also black.  “People being racist—and it’s your own people…

Jesse Matthew Jr. was convicted Wednesday for the murders of two Virginia college students as part of a plea deal that spared him from facing the death penalty, the Washington Post reports.  The 33-year-old entered guilty pleas in Albemarle County court for the 2014 murder of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and the 2009…

It seems that Ben Carson’s run for president is all but over. On Wednesday the retired neurosurgeon announced to his supporters that he does not see a “path forward” and will not be attending Thursday’s debate in Detroit, the Washington Post reports. According to two Republican sources familiar with Carson’s plans, however, he will not…

The head of the Baltimore City Public School Police Force, Marshall Goodwin, was placed on administrative leave, and two officers were reassigned, after video started circulating of an officer repeatedly hitting and kicking a young man, CBS Baltimore reports.  The profanity-laced incident at Reach! Partnership High School has left viewers of the footage outraged and in…

A Washington, D.C., family are hoping that they can still have a proper burial for their beloved grandmother after finding a different deceased woman in her casket when they arrived at her viewing, NBC Washington reports.  “I saw the body of another female that wasn’t my grandmother,” Tawana Murphy told the news station. “My heart…

On Monday, four white men were ordered by a federal judge in Mississippi to pay $840,000 in restitution to the estate of James Craig Anderson, a black man who died as a result of their racially charged cruelty, the Washington Post reports. Deryl Dedmon, 23; John Rice, 23; Dylan Butler, 24; and William Montgomery, 26,…