Jakari Pearson was sleeping in his room at around 1:15 a.m. Wednesday when a bullet flew through one of his bedroom windows, hitting him in the chest. The 8-year-old was rushed to a local hospital in his home city of Detroit, where he was pronounced dead, CBS Detroit reports. The news station noted that police…

Rikers Island inmates had easy access to cocaine and oxycodone, aided by about seven correction officers who used their authority to sneak the narcotics into the New York City jail complex, the New York Daily News reports. The implicated guards were paid $400 to $900 to smuggle the drugs in over the last six months,…

Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor has lost his battle with the deadly virus, which is sweeping through West Africa in a record outbreak, Reuters reports. Virologist Sheik Umar Khan, who had treated more than 100 Ebola patients, died Tuesday after fighting the often fatal virus, which is believed to have already taken the lives of…

Who knows what they’ll do with their stolen merchandise? Two armed men robbed a medical clinic on Chicago’s West Side at gunpoint. They made sure they took all the Viagra the clinic possessed with them, CBS Chicago reports. According to the news station, the two men, one bearing a semi-automatic and the other a handgun,…

Kendrick Johnson’s death remains a mystery, but his parents are not giving up their legal battle. They filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday against Georgia’s Lowndes County school board, the Associated Press reports. The 17-year-old’s parents are claiming that the school board allowed their son to die “at the hands of one or more…

Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, won a landslide victory in court on Monday as a judge ruled in her favor, making way for the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the Los Angeles Times reports. Judge Michael Levanas effectively dismissed all of the embattled Clippers owner’s arguments, agreeing…

One Arizona pastor who is running for Congress received a very secular endorsement from a local strip club, the Arizona Republic reports. The Rev. Jarrett Maupin, who says he is a member of the Progressive Christian Coalition, isn’t put off at all by the endorsement, telling the news site that “the Lord works in mysterious ways.”…

More evidence of New York City Police Department officers appearing to use illegal choke holds are popping up since the death of Staten Island dad Eric Garner. In the latest incident, an officer was caught on film seeming to use the illegal move to restrain a seven-months-pregnant Brooklyn woman, the New York Daily News reports.…

Clifford Hall, the Texas man who went to jail even after overpaying child support debt that was caused by a clerical error, has been released from prison, his lawyer, Tyesha Elam, confirmed to The Root. Hall was released on July 2 after an associate judge suspended the sentence during a routine jail review hearing. He…

The president of the United States wrote to him advising that he finish his education. Jesse Grainger is indeed taking President Barack Obama’s handwritten advice, selling the letter he received for $9,500 to use for tuition, the New York Post reports. Formerly homeless, the young man wrote to Obama some years ago to tell his…