Officials in Barstow, Calif., after looking at body-cam footage of a January altercation involving a pregant woman, are maintaining that the woman “actively resisted arrest,” the Desert Dispatch reports. However, Charlena Michelle Cooks, who was eight months pregnant at the time of the incident, said that she had never been so “terrified” in her life.…

A Kansas teen said she was terrified when, she says, a man called her a “n—ger bitch” during a road rage incident. That individual turned out to be Edwardsville Councilman Chuck Stites, WDAF-TV reports. According to 17-year-old Kali Chatmon, she was turning onto a road on May 3 when she saw a black Lincoln. “He…

A 61-year-old Chicago woman who was sitting on the couch watching the news suffered a gunshot wound to her neck after at least four bullets pierced her window, the Chicago Tribune reports. Jonathan Enriquez, 19, was reportedly upstairs in the family’s two-story red-brick home, playing video games, Tuesday night when he heard gunfire. Going downstairs,…

The son of a Canadian diplomat is hoping to be released from custody on bail after allegedly being involved in a marijuana-related South Florida shootout that left his older brother and another teen dead, the New York Post reports. Marc Wabafiyebazu’s attorney, Curt Obront, will ask a judge on Wednesday to set bail for the…

The photo is problematic, to put it lightly, and the Chicago Police Department reportedly wasn’t too keen on the public seeing it, but a Cook County judge refused to keep the photo sealed, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The image in question shows two white officers—Jerome Finnigan and Timothy McDermott—in plain clothes holding hunting rifles and…

So today in weird (read: creepy) news, The Nairobian is reporting that an East African lawyer is seeking Malia Obama’s hand in marriage; he is offering a bride price of 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats. According to the report, Kenyan lawyer Felix Kiprono is ready and willing to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss…

Herman Crisp was just sitting outside, smoking a cigarette, in late September when, he says, Georgetown, Texas, deputies in full SWAT gear approached him with no warning and threw a “flash bang” explosive device at his residence. The explosion, he says, knocked him out of his chair. Then, the 82-year-old claims, officers slammed him to…

A Maryland grandmother is trying to set the record straight about her daughter, a young woman who, she says, would never hurt her son, WUSA9 reports.  On Friday, Romechia Simms was swinging her son for an “unusual amount of time,” according to investigators, in a La Plata, Md., playground. She eventually drew the attention of…

Lucius Crawford has pleaded guilty to murdering three women in New York since 1993 and faces a sentence of 25 years to life, the New York Post reports. Crawford, who is originally from Charleston, S.C., admitted to killing two women in 1993 and 1994, as well as another woman in 2012, after being confronted by…

Two Olympia, Wash., stepbrothers are suspected of attempting to steal beer from a grocery store on Thursday. The men, however, who were unarmed, are now in the hospital after a confrontation with local law enforcement during which the brothers were shot, the Associated Press reports. A police officer claims that he was assaulted by one…