Ebola is no longer a threat in Nigeria, the World Health Organization announced Monday, with more than a month having passed without a new case, Reuters reports.  “Nigeria is now free of Ebola,” World Health Organization representative Rui Gama Vaz told a news conference in the capital, Abuja, Reuters reported. “This is a spectacular success…

Authorities have found the bodies of seven women throughout Hammond and Gary, Ind., that have been linked to a possible serial killer currently in police custody, Fox News reports. According to the report, 43-year-old Gary resident Darren Deon Vann gave police information about three other dead women after he was picked up for questioning in…

Two children who recently moved from Rwanda to the United States are being kept home from school after parents at Howard R. Yocum Elementary School in Maple Shade Township, N.J., voiced concerns about a possible outbreak of Ebola, Fox 29 reports. Of course, Rwanda is an East African country that is located about 2,600 miles…

Amber Vinson did not knowingly endanger passengers during a Frontier Airlines flight, her family members insist, and they have hired a lawyer to help fight such allegations, the New York Daily News reports. “In no way was Amber careless prior to or after her exposure to Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan,” the family said in a…

When you think “tech,” chances are you don’t think black people, you probably don’t think brown people and you surely don’t think women. This is a disturbing trend that Hank Williams, the founder of Platform, noticed about three years ago while he was living in the tech mecca of California’s Silicon Valley.  “I was part…

It all started when Tracy Wilson Mourning saw a group of girls walking around their Florida neighborhood seemingly directionless, “babies raising babies,” as she described it, with their own children on their hips. She saw something of herself in them and wondered where she would be without the people—especially the women—she had in her life…

The Dream Defenders are hitting hard with a new satirical campaign, Vote or Vest, which encourages people to use their voting privileges in order to put an end to police brutality, WCTV reports. On a massive billboard at the intersection of Apalachee Parkway and Capital Circle SE in Tallahassee, Fla., the group advertises a bulletproof…

One Pennsylvania teen, who is originally from Guinea, recently had to endure his high school rival’s soccer team chanting “Ebola” at him during a match, WPVI reports. According to the station, Ibrahim Toumkara, a Nazareth Area High School student and soccer player, got into a fight last week after he heard players from rival Northampton…

A man was taken into custody in Wichita, Kan., in connection with the rape of a 100-year-old woman and the burglary of her home, the Wichita Eagle reports. According to the paper, the man, identified by jail and police records as Kasey Nesbitt, 35, was booked on suspicion of rape and aggravated burglary. Police did…

The precocious 8-year-old was standing before a gathering inside a community center in Newark, N.J., delivering his own passionate plea for an end to violence. During his remarks, gunfire ripped through the area nearby, killing a young man outside the rally. “Violence came as I was talking,” Nyeeam Hudson told CBS 2 about the Saturday-afternoon incident.…