While former Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet pleads “the fifth” on the swirl of allegations surrounding Bill Cosby, her daughter says the actress is “appalled” by sex assault charges against her once-beloved television dad, according to the New York Daily News. Zoë Kravitz, 26, told The Guardian that her mother, who played Denise Huxtable on…

Anthony Sadler Sr. told NBC News affiliate KCRA in Sacramento, Calif., that he was “stunned” and “relieved” when he heard that his son was one of three Americans who on Friday helped subdue a gunman aboard a high-speed train en route to Paris from Amsterdam. “[I’m] proud, you know,” the father told the news station…

During the last day full day of the first family’s summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, the Obamas on Saturday took a bike ride through the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest in West Tisbury, Mass., according to the Cape Cod Times. On Sunday the president and his family are expected to end their two-week…

When ex-con Darius Devonte McClain was questioned by police for blaring loud music from his car stereo on a side street in Winter Haven, Fla., he gave them his brother’s name, according to the New York Daily News. Little did he know, however, that his brother Dequan Gunter, from nearby Putnam County in central Florida,…

A retired U.S. Army Reserve captain outraged that he was fired by the Department of Labor Statistics shot and killed a 53-year-old security guard at a federal building in New York City on Friday, according to the New York Daily News. Idrissa Camara, a native of Ivory Coast, was shot at close range by Kevin…

The St. Louis prosecutor said Friday that her office is conducting an investigation into the death of Mansur Ball-Bey, a teenager shot in the back during an encounter with two St. Louis police officers this week, reports St. Louis Today. Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce announced that her office will conduct an investigation into the shooting…

Basketball legend Michael Jordan won on a different court Friday night. A federal jury ordered the owners of a defunct supermarket chain to pay the former Chicago Bulls player $8.9 million for using his identity without his permission in a 2009 advertisement, reports the Chicago Tribune. “It was all just about protecting my name and…

More than 1,000 people attended the funeral Saturday for Christian Taylor, the 19-year-old football player who was shot and killed by an Arlington, Texas, police trainee at a car dealership earlier this month, according to the Dallas Morning News. Dozens of teammates from Angelo State University, where Taylor was to start his sophomore year, shared…

When Shenitria Blocker witnessed Miami officers arresting a man last week, she immediately whipped out her cellphone and began recording, mindful of rising tensions between blacks and police, reports the Associated Press. What she recorded was breathtaking, as evidenced by her reaction on a 47-minute recording that captured an officer handcuffing man, placing him in…