Multiple law-enforcement officials have identified the shooter who killed 10 people at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer, even as Douglas County, Ore., Sheriff John Hanlin remains firm in his stance that he “will never” utter the shooter’s name, CNN reports. In an interview on New Day Friday, Hanlin reiterated…

Genora Hamm Biggs will be going back to her church, the church she’s been going to since she was 11 years old, and now she is in charge, Fox News reports.  Last month Biggs made news after she was expelled from her church, the Union Grove Baptist Church in Elberton, Ga., after a dispute with the…

Alabama requires a photo ID to vote. This week Alabama decided to announce that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in certain counties because of budget cuts. Those counties happen to contain the highest percentage of nonwhite voters, an AL.com columnist has pointed out.  According to the report, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency announced (pdf)…

In an August decision made public Tuesday, the New Jersey Civil Service Commission refused to overturn the firing of a corrections officer who reportedly exchanged racist text messages with co-workers in group chats on cellphones smuggled into Camden County Jail, the Courier-Post reports.  According to the report, Thomas McNulty was one of nine officers working…

A New York woman who used to work for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services is now being investigated for the 2008 death of one of her children after she was arrested Monday for allegedly throwing her newborn daughter out the window of her boyfriend’s Bronx, N.Y., apartment, the New York Post reports. …

A disabled Delaware couple have filed a lawsuit against Delaware State Police after what they say was their horrific interaction with officers conducting a drug raid in their home in June 2014, the News Journal reports.  According to the report, officers beat and used a stun gun on Ruther Hayes, a disabled veteran who takes…

Dreia Davis’ life was flipped upside down in August 2009, when, at the age of 13, she was shot in the face in a drive-by shooting on Detroit’s east side.  In the aftermath, Davis suffered two heart attacks and a stroke and had to undergo multiple surgeries. Her prognosis for survival wasn’t good. However, now,…

An artist working on a community art project in West Oakland, Calif., was shot dead Tuesday, stirring grief and disbelief, CBS San Francisco reports. The victim was identified as Antonio Ramos, a muralist with the Attitudinal Healing Connection. Ramos was painting a mural designed by students of an Oakland middle school as part of a…

It was a simple, kind act. However, after a grateful mom turned to Facebook to publicly thank the “amazing” stranger, the post went viral, garnering more than 85,000 shares.  It all started last week, when new mom Rebekka Garvison was faced with the daunting task of traveling by herself with her baby daughter. Garvison, according to CBS…