Minnesota police have ruled out the possibility of foul play in a 6-year-old’s hanging death, ultimately closing the case. They say that the little girl either committed suicide or died by accident, the Associated Press reports. Kendrea Johnson was found unconscious in one of the bedrooms at her foster home with a jump rope around…

Two days after Jordan Johnson’s girlfriend reported that he had been kidnapped, the body of the 24-year-old New Jersey man was discovered in the trunk of his car in New York City on Thursday, cops confirmed, according to the New York Post. Johnson’s parked 2013 BMW was found around 2 p.m. in the Bronx. Authorities…

On Tuesday Oklahoma executed its first inmate since the botched April execution of Clayton Lockett, CNN reports. Charles Frederick Warner, who had originally been scheduled to die April 29, the same day as Lockett, was pronounced dead at 7:28 p.m. CST at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, the news site reports. He was convicted in…

A Brooklyn, N.Y., man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly threatening police officers … with his cellphone, Pix11 reports. According to the report, Unique Johnson pulled his car up next to the rear passenger door of a police cruiser, with two uniformed officers in it, at a red light in Harlem around 9 p.m. The…

Kyle Crosby, a New Jersey man accused of killing his wife, had his bail set at $1.2 million by a Burlington County, N.J., judge Tuesday because he is considered a flight risk, Fox News reports. According to the report, prosecutors noted that Crosby—a drug addict, according to prosecutors—fled to Baltimore last week when police were…

After almost two years, police have finally identified the skeletal remains of a woman that were found in a burned suitcase in an equally burned-out building in the New York City borough of Brooklyn in 2013, the New York Daily News reports. Erica McDaniel, 30, was identified through DNA testing, and her death was ultimately…

The new documentary Light Girls has revealed another side to Hollywood—that not only darker-skinned women of color have suffered from discrimination when it comes to getting roles, the Huffington Post reports. In the film, light-skinned black women talk about the colorism they’ve seen, noting the advantages and disadvantages that they can face. “I see a lot of…

In case you couldn’t get a feel for it, George Zimmerman is a “psycho,” or so his now-ex-girlfriend said, according to police documents, New York magazine reports. Over the weekend Zimmerman, who was infamously acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after he allegedly…

Four-year-old Londyn James was crying her eyes out to her shocked mother one day after school, telling how her classmates refused to be her friend because she was black. Tomeka Fisher, 35, could hardly believe what she was hearing, so she recorded it and put it on Facebook. “My 4yr old is crying her heart…