A bright and promising high school student was reportedly so ashamed after being caught cheating on an exam that she decided to take her own life, the New York Post reports. Omotayo Adeoye, a 17-year-old student at the High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College, was caught looking at her cellphone during…

It was almost 6 p.m. on Sunday, and the children had gone down in the elevator of an apartment building in the East New York section of Brooklyn, N.Y., in search of some ice cream. They never made it out. Six-year-old Prince Joshua Avitto, affectionately known as “P.J.,” was found in the elevator, while 7-year-old Mikayla…

A Forsyth County, N.C., emergency dispatcher was suspended with pay after making comments regarding Oprah Winfrey during a 911 call on Wednesday reporting the death of her good friend Maya Angelou, the Winston-Salem Journal reports. John Ruckh himself did not take the 911 call but could be heard in the background speaking about a controversial…

A Chicago special education teacher working a second job has become one of the latest victims of gun violence, the Chicago Tribune reports. Betty Howard, 58, was at her second job in a real estate office in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood late Thursday afternoon when shots were fired in the street. Some of the bullets tore…

Two Texas women are suing the Texas Department of Public Safety for a “humiliating” full body cavity search they had to undergo after being pulled over for speeding. They recently sat down with news station HLN to recount that horrible day in 2012. The two women, Alexandria Randle and Brandy Hamilton, both in their late…

Two Massachusetts men were sentenced to a mandatory life sentence when they were 17 years old after being convicted of felony murder charges, but now they are hoping to grasp at freedom. Joseph Donovan, now 38, and Frederick Christian, now 37, took part in the state’s first parole hearings since the controversial juvenile-sentencing law was…

An employee at Tiffany & Co. has slammed the coveted luxury jewelry retailer with a lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Manhattan, accusing it of trying to get rid of him because he’s a black man, the New York Times reports. Michael McClure is a group director for Tiffany and, according to his suit,…

Galveston police arrested an apparently inebriated Texas woman who allegedly critically injured the father of one of her children by driving over him and then driving into a lake, almost drowning her 6-month-old in the backseat, KHOU 11 reports. Latonya Kirven, 30, was charged with driving while intoxicated with a child and assault with a…

Arthur Morgan III was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for drowning his 2-year-old daughter, the New York Post reports. The New Jersey father was found guilty of throwing the toddler into a creek while she was still strapped into her car seat—with an irate judge telling him that he would have been placed…

Reading Rainbow is coming back, but this time the show will be more tech-based and will appear on multiple platforms to represent the new generation of learners. Actor LeVar Burton—also the longtime host and producer of Reading Rainbow—recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to revive and add new life to what was once a popular learning…