A Philadelphia police officer was wounded Thursday night after being shot multiple times in what, according to police, the shooter has confessed was an “attempted assassination” “in the name of Islam,” NBC 10 reports. The shooter, identified as 30-year-old Edward Archer, fired at Police Officer Jesse Hartnett 13 times as the officer drove through West Philadelphia…

Barbara Dawson was insistent.  Newly released audio reveals that the 57-year-old was in apparent distress, so she didn’t want to leave the Calhoun Liberty Hospital in Blountstown, Fla., CNN reports. “No, no, no, no,” Dawson could be heard saying repeatedly to the officer in the clip that family attorneys released.  “Please don’t let me die!”…

A New York City high school teacher is suing the city’s Department of Education and several school administrators after, she claims, she was fired over her lessons on the wrongly imprisoned Central Park Five for fear that it would “rile up” black students, the New York Daily News reports. Jeena Lee-Walker, an English teacher, said…

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is known for saying some peculiar things. On Thursday morning, however, while he was giving a speech at the Isaac Newton Christian School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it was a question that ended up mortifying at least one student attending the assembly, the Des Moines Register reported.  According to Des…

A Bronx, N.Y., father was arrested and charged with bludgeoning his pregnant daughter to death and then trying to hide her body in a grave dug in the basement of their home, police said Wednesday, the New York Post reports.  William Caruth faces charges of murder and manslaughter in the death of his 39-year-old daughter,…

A Georgia prosecutor is pushing for a felony murder indictment against a white police officer who shot and killed a naked, unarmed black man last March, the New York Times reports.  According to the report, the office of DeKalb County District Attorney Robert D. James Jr. is asking a grand jury to indict Officer Robert…

George Zimmerman is at it again, and this time he’s accusing President Barack Obama of being disingenuous during his speech Tuesday announcing executive actions to curb gun violence, during which the president teared up while remembering some of gun violence’s youngest victims.  “He made an announcement, and all I could think when I saw it…

It was a “bittersweet” moment for the sister of Sandra Bland when it was announced that the arresting officer, Texas State Trooper Brian Encinia, would face charges of perjury in the case that ultimately left Bland dead from a reported suicide, the Associated Press reports.  According to Sharon Cooper, the charge is long-overdue, but it’s…

Usually, when in court, people tend to be on their best behavior.  Adam Satterly, whose bond on drug charges was revoked Monday, apparently didn’t get the memo and earned himself an additional 60 days in jail for being in contempt of court, according to WDRB. Satterly didn’t take it well when Jefferson Circuit Court Judge…

Detectives have arrested a Titusville, Fla., man in connection with the recent vandalism of a mosque, Florida Today reports.  Authorities say that evidence pointed toward 35-year-old Michael Scott Wolfe, who is accused of entering the Islamic Society of Central Florida Masjid Al-Mumin around 11 p.m. New Year’s Day and using a machete to smash through…