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  • Fla. Cop Was Too ‘Wasted’ at Anti-Drunk-Driving Event to Accept Award for Making More Than 100 DUI Arrests

    A Pinella’s County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy caused a whole heap of embarrassment after being found intoxicated while attending a Mothers Against Drunk Driving conference in Fort Lauderdale in July, WFLA reports.  Officer Michael Szeliga reportedly packed a bottle of Jameson Irish whiskey in his patrol car before driving to the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel,…

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  • University of Mo. President Resigns Amid Claims of Racial Insensitivity 

    University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned Monday morning amid racial controversy in which students and faculty staged walkouts and hunger strikes to bring attention to the issue.  “I take full responsibility for this frustration, and I take full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred,” Wolfe said in a press conference announcing his resignation.…

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  • Patti LaBelle Lost 2 Sisters to Lung Cancer; Now She’s Fighting to End the Disease

    Award-winning singer Patti LaBelle has a personal stake in spreading awareness about lung cancer: She has two sisters who succumbed to the disease within two years of each other. Her sisters, Vivian and Jackie, both of whom she lost in the early 1980s, are why she joined the American Lung Association Lung Force initiative as a…

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  • Ga. State Trooper Spent Halloween With 4 Children Who Lost Their Parents in Car Crash

    A Georgia State Patrol trooper did all he could to preserve the good spirit of Halloween for four children who lost their parents in a fatal crash, 11 Alive reports.  Donald and Crystal Howard, parents of four, had reportedly left home to buy face paint and Halloween candy when they lost control of their SUV, flew…

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  • NC High School Students Start Food Pantry to Help Out Classmates in Need

    A Beaufort County, N.C., high school, committed to making sure students in need can get food without being embarrassed about it, has started a food pantry, WNCT reports.  According to the report, the idea for the food pantry started out as a student government project at Washington High School, but the benefit of having the resources…

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  • Chicago Teen Accused of Killing 89-Year-Old Woman, Setting Home on Fire

    A Chicago teen is facing a first-degree-murder charge after allegedly killing an 89-year-old South Side woman and setting her home on fire, the Chicago Tribune reports.  Trae Chatmon, 18, is accused of forcing his way into the home of Josephine Johnson in the early-morning hours of Oct. 26 and hitting her in the head before stabbing…

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  • Dash-Cam Video Shows Ala. Cop Shoot Suspect Who Did Not Point Gun, Contrary to Police Reports

    An Alabama police officer may have a medal he received for his actions during a robbery taken away after newly released dash-cam video appears to contradict official recounts, AL.com reports.  Earlier this year, Birmingham Police Officer Daniel Aguirre was awarded the Combat Cross Medal after shooting a robbery suspect in April 2014 who, according to indictments,…

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  • Air Force Vet Becomes 1st African American Elected to Statewide Office in Ky.

    Kentucky’s new lieutenant governor-elect is a black Republican woman, the first black person ever elected to statewide office there, the Washington Post reports. Jenean Hampton had previously been named in the Republican State Leadership Committee’s “15 in ’15: Races to Watch” report, meant to highlight outstanding women and diverse candidates from around the country, a…

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  • Man Who Inadvertently Gave Cop Killer Directions Claims Harassment and Beating by NYPD

    Last December, when Karim Baker was stopped in Brooklyn, N.Y., by a man who appeared to be a random passerby asking for directions to a housing project in the New York City borough’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Baker had no idea that he was giving directions to the man who would shortly thereafter kill two police officers…

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  • NYC Hero Rescues 1-Year-Old From Train Tracks

    A New York City man jumped into action Sunday evening, rescuing a toddler who had fallen onto the subway tracks and under a shuttle train that had stopped in the Times Square station, the New York Daily News reports.  Tabrina Ferrell, who is just 1 year old, sent her grandmother and fellow commuters into a…

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