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Medical Examiner Rules Death of Fla. Inmate, Locked in Scalding Shower, an ‘Accident’
A civil rights group is growing more insistent in its calls for a federal inquiry after a medical examiner ruled the death of an inmate locked in a scalding shower for two hours by prison guards an accident, The Guardian reports. Darren Rainey, an inmate at Florida’s Dade Correctional Institution, died in June 2012 after he…
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14 Citadel Cadets Disciplined After Caroling in KKK-Style White Hoods
Fourteen cadets at the Citadel, the Military School of South Carolina, in Charleston have been punished after a number of them appeared in photos wearing Ku Klux Klan-style hoods over their heads while caroling in early December, the New York Daily News reports. The punishments come after about a month of investigation. The investigation was…
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Man Transforms Home Into Museum of Love in Tribute to Late Wife
Love knows no bounds and has no limits. Charles “LaLa” Evans seems to know that well: He created a museum of love in his own home as a tribute to his late wife, Louise, who died in 2011 just one month shy of their 60th wedding anniversary. According to the Huffington Post, the couple had…
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Ariz. High School Girl Apologizes After Human N-Word Collage
A student at Desert Vista High School in Arizona who was in a now viral photo of six students spelling out the n-word with their lettered shirts has publicly apologized at a rally for her part in the fiasco, the Arizona Republic reports. About 50 people showed up outside the high school Monday afternoon to protest…
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Fla. State University Settles With Jameis Winston’s Accuser for $950,000
A woman who accused footballer Jameis Winston of raping her in 2012 while they were both students at Florida State University has settled with the school for $950,000, the New York Times reports. The agreement, which was reached Monday, also calls for Florida State to commit to five years of sexual-assault-awareness programs and greater transparency,…
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Ind. City Councilman, Charged With Murder, Sworn In While in Jail
Normally, when someone is sworn in as a city councilman, he takes the oath of office in city hall. Re-elected East Chicago, Ind., Councilman Robert Battle, however, was sworn in for a second term from inside a county jail. The Washington Post reports that Battle is facing multiple felony charges, including murder, in the killing…
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US Capitol Police Officer Dies Shoveling Snow
A U.S. Capitol police officer died of a heart attack while shoveling snow at his Delaware home Saturday following the blizzard that blasted the eastern U.S., the (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal reports. Vernon J. Alston Jr., 44, a 20-year veteran, was a “fixture on the Capitol grounds,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday, announcing…
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9-Year-Old Va. Girl Collects Dolls for Homeless Girls Her Age
Gianni Graham may be small, but the 9-year-old girl from Norfolk, Va., clearly has a big heart: She has made a New Year’s resolution to collect 1,000 Barbie dolls to give away to 1,000 girls in foster homes and shelters across Hampton Roads, Va., WTKR reports. Of course, Gianni knows that food and clothes are…
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Teen’s Impromptu Piano Performance at Mich. Mall Goes Viral
Monntel West was just trying to kill time on Friday while he waited for a friend at Lansing Mall in Michigan, when he started tinkering around with the piano at the east end of the mall. However, all it took was one impressed passerby and a quick cellphone video for the 18-year-old high school senior…
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Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, Site of Massacre, Gets New Pastor
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the historic Charleston, S.C., church that was struck with tragedy last June after a gunman killed nine people during Bible study, has a new pastor, the Associated Press reports. The Rev. Betty Deas Clark was appointed pastor Saturday, making her the first female pastor to lead the church. On Sunday,…
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