A lot has changed in 37 years.  You just have to look back at the famous 1979 Coca-Cola commercial featuring Pittsburgh Steelers legend “Mean” Joe Greene and the little kid who offered him a Coke to drink, which gained iconic status after it aired during Super Bowl XIV in 1980. That being said, Tommy Okon…

Infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch is officially back in the U.S. and was booked into a Texas juvenile-detention center after he was deported from Mexico on Thursday morning, the Associated Press reports.  Couch, 18, who is accused of fleeing the country with his mother while prosecutors were investigating a possible probation violation, was brought into…

Abe Hagenston, who has been homeless in Detroit for about seven years, has found a very efficient way to help not only himself but also others in his little community. “Honest Abe,” as he calls himself, who calls the 8 Mile overpass on Interstate 75 home, accepts credit and debit card donations from those passersby…

Oregon authorities say it was the fact that Robert “LaVoy” Finicum reached for his waistband, which held his gun, that prompted officers to open fire on the group of armed Oregon wildlife-refuge occupiers, CNN reports.  Authorities caught up with the leaders of the group on U.S. Route 395, some distance away from the wildlife refuge…

A South Carolina judge has ordered a jury pool of 600 people summoned for the trial of Dylann Roof, who is charged with murder in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting that took place last summer, The Guardian reports. Roof, 21, is facing nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and a…

A Chicago police officer who shot and killed a black teenager is planning to sue the teen’s estate, claiming that the teen attacked him, CBS Chicago reports.  Chicago Police Officer Robert Rialmo’s lawyer, Joel Brodsky, told the news station that he plans to file a counterclaim against the estate of 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier on the…

A top-ranking Georgia Department of Education official has been fired after making a racially charged comment on his personal Facebook page, 11 Alive reports, the latest in a spate of homophobic and anti-Muslim posts made from the account.  Jeremy Spencer, who was the associate superintendent of virtual instruction for the Georgia Department of Education, was…

Two members of the Missouri House of Representatives reportedly got into an alley fistfight over right-to-work legislation, ultimately prompting one of them to seek a restraining order, the Associated Press reports. State Rep. Courtney Allen Curtis reportedly released a copy of the restraining order and a House ethics complaint that he filed against fellow Democratic…

Infamous “affluenza” teen Ethan Couch is going to drop an appeal against his deportation from Mexico and will return to Texas to face the charges awaiting him there, his lawyer in Mexico, Fernando Benitez, revealed, according to The Guardian.  Couch reportedly formally decided to drop the appeal Monday.  “I gave him several options, but he…

The FBI and Oregon State Police have arrested members of a group of armed protesters who took over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon for more than three weeks, including group leader Ammon Bundy, USA Today reports.  Authorities moved in on the group around 4:25 p.m. PST Tuesday along Highway 395 during a traffic stop.…