Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has stated that the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice will face a new administrative review, following a grand jury decision to decline to press charges against the officers, NBC News reports.  During a press conference Tuesday, Jackson insisted that regardless of what the grand jury…

Two years after an Oakland, Calif., teen was declared brain-dead following tonsil-surgery complications, the family is still fighting to void the death certificate that was issued, the New York Daily News reports. Jahi McMath was declared brain-dead in December 2013 after surgery to cure her sleep apnea. Hospital officials wanted to remove her from life…

Updated Wednesday, Dec. 30, 3 p.m. EST: Bill Cosby was arraigned Wednesday afternoon in an Elkins Park, Pa., courtroom, ABC News reports, to answer to charges of alleged aggravated indecent assault. According to the report, the bail for the fallen comedian was set at $1 million, and he also turned over his passport to the…

The mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice was so devastated that a grand jury refused to indict the two Cleveland cops involved in her child’s death that she cried until she could barely speak, her lawyer said, according to WKYC-TV.  Rice’s lawyer, Subodh Chandra, said that both he and the grieving mother believe that Cuyahoga County,…

Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who faces a first-degree-murder charge in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, entered a not-guilty plea at his Tuesday-morning arraignment, the Chicago Tribune reports.  According to the report, it was the first time Van Dyke appeared before Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan, who is hearing the case. His…

California police have arrested a man for reportedly dousing a woman with gasoline and lighting her on fire during a domestic dispute on Christmas day in Pomona in Los Angeles, the Associated Press reports.  Clarence Dear, 51, was arrested on Sunday on a bus in Atladena following a tip. He is currently being held on…

Updated Monday, Dec. 28, 2015, 8:24 p.m. EST: Samaria Rice, the mother of Tamir Rice, released the following statement shortly after the grand jury released its decision not to indict Officers Timothy Loehmann (who shot and killed Tamir) and Frank Garmback: My family and I are in pain and devastated by the non-indictment of officers…

A 25-year-old New York City college student is accusing officers of wrongfully arresting and beating him up after they encountered him walking his 5-month-old puppy outside his house without a leash, the New York Daily News reports.  Nicholson Gregoire was walking around outside his Queens Village home Dec. 15 when he saw two officers conducting…

Meadowlark Lemon, known and loved for his antics on the court as part of the iconic traveling basketball show the Harlem Globetrotters, died Sunday in Arizona at the age of 83, leaving the world with a little less laughter, the New York Times reports.  Incredibly talented as an athlete, Lemon joined the team in 1954…

To the mother of Amadou Diallo, it’s like pouring salt into a wound.  Officer Kenneth Boss, one of the four New York City police officers who shot her son to death back in 1999, recently got a promotion and a raise, nearly 17 years after the shooting that shook the Bronx. The 22-year-old Diallo, who…