Kevin Bruce, a student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, just wanted to talk to his academic adviser. After numerous attempts to schedule an appointment with her, he finally went to the office to see her in person. While he was waiting patiently, however, a staff member came up to Bruce and told him that…

Two Baltimore corrections officers allegedly took advantage of the unrest during the protests over Freddie Gray’s death last month and looted a downtown convenience store. Tamika Cobb and Kendra Richard were charged Wednesday with looting a 7-Eleven on the evening of April 25. According to the Maryland government’s website, the Department of Public Safety and…

A high school in Tempe, Ariz., is mourning the loss of a student who committed suicide on campus on Tuesday, KPHO reports. Marcus Wheeler, an 18-year-old senior who ran cross-country and track for Corona del Sol High School, tweeted that there would be a “suicide in the school right now” before taking his own life,…

The family of a 9-year-old Prince George’s County public school student is demanding answers as to why the school bus driver did not intervene as other students brutally beat the child, WJLA reports. Cellphone footage captured the moments when Saraia Collins begs the other children to leave her alone as they tease her. “Get out…

“It hurt” to see footage of Freddie Gray’s ultimately fatal arrest, and so Allen Bullock, who said that he knew the 25-year-old, took to the streets of Baltimore to join the protests after Gray’s death, The Guardian reports. “It wasn’t that he died; it was how he died,” Bullock, joined by family members and his…

The trial of Michael L. Johnson, a former college wrestler who allegedly exposed unsuspecting partners to HIV, began on Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The 23-year-old wrestling champ was expelled from Lindenwood University after he was charged in the case. He has been held in prison since then on a $100,000 cash bail, the…

New York City police officers shot a suspect on Wednesday who is believed to have randomly attacked pedestrians in Manhattan with a hammer, the New York Post reports. David Baril, 30, was rushed to a hospital, where he is said to be in critical condition. Two officers reportedly recognized the suspect from photos released by…

A formally homeless man allegedly tried to upgrade his single-room occupancy, or SRO, New York City lodging for a $1.5 million brownstone by scamming an 84-year-old woman out of her Harlem home. Multiple aliases and a forged city deed were used in the intricate plot, according to court papers, the New York Post reports. Herny…

Tamir Rice died almost six months ago, and just last week his mother, Samaria Rice, and her legal team publicly demanded answers as to how long an inquiry into the 12-year-old’s death would continue. CNN is reporting that on Tuesday, Cuyahoga County Sheriff Clifford Pinkney said that most of his department’s probe into the shooting of…

Newly released dash-cam video of a police-involved shooting in Charleston County, S.C., reveals that a homeowner who was armed with a handgun to protect himself from intruders was barely given a warning before a sheriff’s deputy opened fire, WCIV reports. According to the report, Bryant Heyward had taken up the .40-caliber weapon in defense of…