A North Carolina police chief claims he was forced to retire after he called Black Lives Matter “an American-born terrorist group” in an “open letter” posted to his Facebook page in early September, Reuters reports. Surf City Police Chief Mike Halstead retired effective immediately after an emergency Town Council meeting was held on Tuesday in…

A Kentucky state trooper who was fatally shot by a suspect Sunday night was trying to help the man who ended his life, Kentucky State Police say, according to NBC News.  State Trooper Joseph Ponder pulled over Joseph Johnson-Shanks around 10 p.m. Sunday on an interstate highway. It is not clear why Ponder initiated the…

The New York City Police Department is using surveillance-video footage to look for a woman who allegedly punched a 10-year-old boy after an argument about manners, Fox 5 NY reports.  According to the report, the woman punched the boy in a Bronx deli, owned by the child’s father, after reprimanding the boy about not being…

A 103-year-old Georgia woman has been kicked out of her church for disagreeing with her pastor’s preaching style, with members even calling the police on the woman, who has been a part of the congregation for some 90 years, Fox 5 Atlanta reports.  According to the report, Genora Ham Biggs and the Rev. Tim Mattox…

Monica Johnson of Nashville, Tenn., was at a stoplight on Sept. 11, talking to her daughter on the phone while driving home from work.  Another driver apparently became so enraged by this that he pulled up beside her and hurled threats and slurs her way in a frightening rant caught on video, Fox 17 reports. …

Families with an incarcerated family member struggle with basic needs such as food and housing, according to a survey by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together and other community organizations that work with imprisoned individuals, the New York Times reports.  According to the report, almost two-thirds of such families struggle to meet…

It’s been some 17 months since Gugsa Abraham Dabela was found dead by a Redding, Conn., roadside. By all accounts, just hours before his body was found, Dabela was hanging out with friends, having a good time and handing out business cards for his new law practice. His family has been reeling in the aftermath; questions…

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a Republican 2016 presidential hopeful, had a lot to say about the Black Lives Matter movement while he was in Ferguson, Mo., where the movement was born out of the shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, CBS St. Louis and the Associated Press reports. Carson chastised the activist movement in an…

Jamal Harrison Bryant, pastor at the Empowerment Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in West Baltimore, is eyeing the seat currently held by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.). On Monday he announced his campaign for Congress, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to the report, Bryant released a statement announcing, “After prayer, soul-searching and long deliberation, I am…

Whether you’re starting a new job or remaining at your old job (but think it’s time for that dollar figure to change), salary negotiation can incite a particular kind of dread that wells up in your stomach and will have you running to call your mom as if you weren’t an adult.  Salary negotiation, however,…