Dallas nurse Amber Vinson has been declared free of the deadly Ebola virus, her family announced, according to the Washington Post. Vinson, who contracted the disease while treating now-deceased patient Thomas Eric Duncan, was being treated at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after being transferred from Dallas. On Tuesday night, Centers for Disease Control and…

One grieving family in Los Angeles is demanding answers after a 7-year-old boy was fatally run over by an ice-cream truck Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Times reports. Jamarion Thomas of South L.A. was run over a little after 7 p.m., and the incident incited an angry crowd who went after the driver, throwing bricks…

Official autopsy results show that unarmed Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown was shot in the hand from close range, two unrelated experts have confirmed through analysis, according to documents seen by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Toxicology reports also confirmed that Brown, who was shot by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, had marijuana in his system at…

Teen Jocori Scarborough was found guilty on Tuesday of raping a classmate in a hallway of Salisbury, Md.’s Parkside High School, Salisbury’s Daily Times reports. The 18-year-old was found guilty on all five counts: second-degree rape, false imprisonment, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, and disturbing or threatening a student, the newspaper reports. “She said no,” Wicomico County…

A New York City man has been charged in the brutal beating of his two stepchildren. One of the toddlers died as a result of the attack, the New York Post reports. Kelsey “Shawn” Smith, 20, was charged with assault on Monday after the incident, which occurred in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. He insisted that…

Rwanda, an East African nation far away from the Ebola outbreak, has now begun to screen visitors from the U.S. and other places that have had cases of Eboa, according to a message posted on the website of the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda. The announcement comes shortly after a New Jersey elementary school announced that two…

Missouri state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed was arrested Monday night during a protest outside the Ferguson, Mo., police station, St. Louis County police have confirmed, according to the New York Daily News. Nasheed, who was reportedly walking and standing in the street, was told by officers that she could not protest there and was eventually arrested,…

A Clementon, N.J., woman was busted in a big-time hustle after she allegedly stole and resold about $3.7 million worth of goods from a Sears warehouse, the New York Daily News reports. Authorities are claiming that Kim Watson ran her scheme while working as an inventory clerk at a Sears distribution center, allegedly stealing merchandise…

As authorities seek more information regarding the grisly discovery of the bodies of seven Indiana women, all of which are suspected to be the work of a serial killer, the currently detained suspect has reportedly hinted that there could be even more victims, the Associated Press reports. “It could go back as far as 20…

South Africa’s “Blade Runner” on Tuesday was sentenced to five years in prison, a term he started serving immediately, the Associated Press reports.  The disgraced double-amputee Olympic sprinter, found guilty of culpable homicide last month for shooting to death his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, reportedly remained composed while Judge Thokozile Masipa handed down her sentence.…