Bill Cosby is addressing at least one of the allegations of sexual assault launched against him by countersuing Judith Huth, the woman who alleged that she was assaulted by the comedian when she was 15, CBS News reports. Cosby’s lawyer is claiming that Huth and her attorney attempted to extort money from Cosby by demanding…

While the nation reels from the lack of indictments in the recent cases of Ohio’s John Crawford III, Missouri’s Michael Brown and New York’s Eric Garner, all of whom were killed by on-duty police officers, South Carolina is reportedly taking a different approach, having indicted three white officers in the past four months for the…

Officer Daniel Pantaleo’s part in Eric Garner’s death may not have been a race issue as much as a size issue, the Garner family said in interviews with CNN. Erica Garner, the daughter of the deceased Staten Island father of six who was killed, in part, by a banned choke hold, said that it was…

Season 7 Biggest Loser star Damien Gurganious has died suddenly at age 38, the Daily Mail reports.  According to the news site, Gurganious died Nov. 24 because of a brain bleed caused by a rare autoimmune disorder called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. “As most of you know, I never post on social media. So, it is…

The New York City grand jury decision not to charge the cop responsible for Eric Garner’s death has snatched away a lot of the hope that I’ve held on to about race relations here—my birth country—that I now see is still clinging tightly, in many places, to its white supremacist ways. Reading that, you may…

Five deputies are under investigation for allegedly sending racist text messages while working, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department confirmed, according to Raw Story. Two of the officers involved, Sheriff’s Capt. Thomas J. Flanders and Det. Michael J. Sollenberger, were put on paid leave at the beginning of December. The other three deputies have not been named…

Hundreds of people in the Washington, D.C., area added their voices to those in New York City who took over Times Square to protest the grand jury’s failure to indict a New York City police officer for the choke hold death of Staten Island dad Eric Garner. In College Park, Md., protesters took to the…

Two men have been arrested and charged in the rape of a 16-year-old girl while at a Johns Hopkins University fraternity party, USA Today College reports. Chaz Haggins, 20, and Ethan Turner, 19, were both arrested on rape and sexual assault charges, according to the Baltimore Police Department, the site notes. The incident occurred at…

Before Tim Loehmann—the officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice—joined the Cleveland Police Department, he had a brief career with the Independence, Ohio, police, a suburban department that ruled him unfit for police work, Cleveland.com reports. According to the report, a Nov. 29, 2012, letter from the Independence Police Department, kept in Loehmann’s personnel…

Civil rights activist Van Jones blasted former NBA star Charles Barkley on CNN Tuesday night for comments he made regarding the Ferguson, Mo., grand jury decision, including the statement that black communities would be the “wild, Wild West” without cops. “The true story came out from the grand jury testimony,” Barkley said. “We have to be…