A New Jersey woman was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for throwing her neighbor’s small dog into ongoing traffic during an argument over a parking space, the Associated Press reports.  Haniyyah Barnes, 29, also has to pay the neighbor $2,000 in restitution and perform 30 days of community service with an organization dedicated…

Students on the basketball team at Iowa’s Perry High School found themselves targeted by a very peculiar chant during a Monday-night game against the Dallas Center-Grimes Community High School team, WHO-TV reports. Fans of the opposing school reportedly used Donald Trump’s scorn for undocumented immigrants, openly chanting the 2016 Republican presidential candidate’s name, along with…

An Edisto Island, S.C., woman died after being arrested at a hospital over the summer. According to statements from family attorneys Wednesday, she died because she was deprived of water at the Charleston County jail,  the Post and Courier reports.  Joyce Curnell, 50, was found dead at the jail shortly before 5 p.m. on July…

Mount Healthy, Ohio, police are looking for tips about a serial-theft suspect who was involved in the shoplifting of some $847 worth of Rogaine and Prevagen products from a local Walgreen’s store.  The thief had reportedly also been identified in similar Cincinnati-area thefts in North College Hill and West Chester, among other locations, and is…

Johnson & Johnson will have to pay $72 million to the family of a woman who died from ovarian cancer that the family argued was linked to the woman’s use of the health care giant’s talcum powder, the New York Daily News reports.  The family of Jacqueline Fox argued that the company was “lying to…

A vanity license in Minnesota has been confiscated and officials are apologizing after the plate, which read, “FMUSLMS,” caused an uproar, Reuters reports.  Officials said Wednesday that approval procedures for the vanity plates are under review. The contention started after a St. Cloud-area resident uploaded a photo of the offensive license plate on social media. …

A Bronx, N.Y., teen died last Friday in a hotel pool while doing missionary work in Tanzania, WABC reports.  Laniece Moore, a 15-year-old student at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Harlem, was part of a group helping to rebuild a Tanzanian school before she drowned in the hotel pool. According to the news station, the girl’s…

President Barack Obama has taken to SCOTUSblog to describe the qualities he will be looking for in his nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. In the blog post titled “A Responsibility I Take Seriously,” Obama noted that this particular duty is one that he intends to fulfill in the weeks ahead,…

One Kenyan member of Parliament is encouraging women to withhold sex from their husbands in an odd bid to encourage the men to register to vote in the 2017 general elections, Newsweek reports.  Esther Murugi, the M.P. for Nyeri Town, is also encouraging women not to cook for their husbands, and even encouraged pastors not…

The medical center that dispatched paramedics and ultimately treated Eric Garner after his fatal encounter with New York City police officers has agreed to pay $1 million to his family, the Associated Press reports.  According to the newswire, the settlement with Richmond University Medical Center in New York City’s borough of Staten Island is confidential and…