A 14-year-old Louisiana boy is dead after he was fatally shot by a Terrebonne Parish deputy Tuesday night in Houma, La., WWL TV reports. According to the report, Louisiana State Police are involved in the investigation of the shooting. Louisiana State Police Trooper Evan Harrell told reporters that it is still unclear what happened, but…

The number of Ebola cases has been greatly underreported, and if something isn’t done soon, approximately 1.4 million individuals in West Africa could be infected by the deadly and unforgiving virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, which was released Tuesday, the CDC developed…

Michael Brown’s memorial, laid out on the street where he died, was destroyed in an unexplained blaze Tuesday morning, according to KSDK. Ferguson Police Department Capt. Jeremy Corcoran said that the fire started on Canfield Drive at about 6:45 a.m., according to KSDK. The fire was put out with portable water extinguishers, but the cause…

Johnnie O’Neal cleared his name about a year ago, but the 54-year-old man who spent 13 years behind bars for a rape and robbery that he did not commit is now seeking compensation from New York City for the years he lost, the New York Daily News reports. In court documents, O’Neal, who was convicted…

An investigation is ongoing, but family and friends of two Tampa, Fla., teenagers found hog-tied on the side of a street in Jacksonville, Fla., are left with questions as they mourn the young women. “It’s awful,” Mikayla Green, a friend of 19-year-old Angelia Mangum, one of the deceased, told the Tampa Tribune. “It’s inhumane. No…

The process of retrying Michael Dunn, the 47-year-old man responsible for the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, in the nationally watched “loud music” murder trial started with jury selection Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. In February the software engineer was found guilty of three counts of attempted second-degree murder and one count of firing…

The St. Louis County and Municipal Police Academy is promising to teach officers how to “win the media” in the event of an officer-involved shooting. The class (pdf), which was inspired by Michael Brown’s shooting death in Ferguson, Mo. in August, will be “highly entertaining” and “fast-paced,” with bonus “NO PowerPoint!” The advertisement for the course,…

Editor’s note: The video contains language that some may find offensive. Most employees tend to give their employers two weeks’ notice, but Alaskan television reporter Charlo Greene resigned from her job a bit more abruptly … and publicly. According to Raw Story, the KTVA-TV reporter was reporting on the Alaska Cannabis Club during Sunday night’s broadcast when…

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy is a fixture in American history, a name often spoken when discussing where we’ve come as a nation. However, King’s influence extends far beyond our borders, across the Atlantic, all the way to Germany. King’s impact on Germany comes in the form of his speech on nonviolence that he delivered…

The Chicago man imprisoned in Bali, Indonesia, has confessed to his part in the grisly killing of his girlfriend’s mother, police said, according to the Associated Press. Tommy Schaefer, 21, along with his girlfriend Heather Mack, 19, were arrested in the Indonesian province after Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s body was found stuffed in a suitcase in…