A Florida day care director was taken into police custody after she was caught on cellphone footage hitting a child with stuffed animals and slamming him to the ground, the New York Daily News reports.  According to the report, it was nap time at the Children’s Palace Learning Center in Clermont when Kimberly Marie Reid…

More than 1,000 students stayed home from an Ocala, Fla., high school Monday following a mass-shooting threat posted on social media over the weekend, Click Orlando reports.  According to the report, Marion County Public Schools officials said that three students at West Port High School brought a Confederate flag to school and took it out…

Georgia is preparing to execute its oldest death row inmate Tuesday evening for the 1979 murder of a convenience-store manager, the Associated Press reports.  Brandon Astor Jones, 72, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at 7 p.m. after spending years on death row since being convicted in the shooting death of…

The pain of losing a child is unfathomable. Yet California mom Heather Clark somehow turned her tragedy into a life-changing opportunity for other families, donating her infant son’s organs when he suddenly died in 2013, KTLA reports.  And last Friday, Clark was moved to tears as she was able to listen to her son’s heart…

Members from the terrorist group Boko Haram firebombed huts and burned children to death in a vicious attack that left 86 people dead, the Associated Press reports.  A survivor hidden in a tree saw the brutality unleashed and heard the screams of children in the latest attack by the Islamic extremists. According to the report,…

Daniel Holtzclaw is no longer listed on the website for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, and officials are citing security reasons, KFOR reports.  The news station notes that the website, which shows criminal convictions, mug shots and inmates’ locations, has deleted Holtzclaw, who was recently sentenced to 263 years in prison for raping several women…

The family of Ramarley Graham, a black teen who was gunned down in his Bronx, N.Y., home by a police officer, is demanding justice in the teen’s case, telling the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara that the “foot-dragging is unacceptable,” the New York Daily News reports.  Tuesday will mark…

A handful of Minnesota high school students are facing disciplinary action because of Ku Klux Klan-like costumes that they donned during a school fundraiser last week, WCCO reports.  At least seven students at Mound Westonka High School were said to have worn outfits resembling KKK robes at a dodgeball event held at the school Wednesday.…

A former bartender was awarded $687,000 after jurors found that the owner of a Washington, D.C., bar violated her civil rights under federal and district anti-discrimination laws, the Washington Post reports.  Redline owner Mick Dadlani and his company were found to have racially discriminated against newly hired bartender Briggitta Hardin at the time of the…

A New York City firefighter has been getting paid since 2013 while not having to do any work, the New York Post reports.  Arnaldo Rodriguez, 40, has been at home for the past two-and-a-half years, culminating in some $125,000 in salary plus benefits, while the Fire Department of New York decides what to do with…