A Phoenix woman who attained national notoriety last year after leaving her children in a hot car during a job interview was sentenced Friday to 18 years’ supervised probation by a Maricopa County, Ariz., judge, according to the Arizona Republic. Shanesha Taylor, 35, may apply for interstate travel in a case that achieved widespread attention…

Never one to shy away from controversy, comedian Louis C.K. served up a steady stream of edgy jokes Saturday as host of the 40th-season finale of Saturday Night Live. His monologue cannot be unheard. The Emmy Award-winning star and Boston native joked about so-called mild racism and, um, pedophiles. “I grew up in the ’70s,…

Borrowing a page from Madonna, who is still performing at 56, pop star Janet Jackson announced plans to release new music and embark on a world tour this year. The multiplatinum singer and ’90s superstar made the announcement on social media Saturday—her 49th birthday, surprising followers and garnering 4,700 retweets and 4,100 favorites. It’s her…

A Florida man was arrested Friday on charges of attacking George Zimmerman, the man acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, Reuters reports. Matthew Apperson was charged with aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon, as well as with firing a deadly missile into an…

A third-grade teacher at an Orange, N.J., elementary school was fired this week for allowing her class to write “get well” letters last month to Mumia Abu-Jamal, according to the Daily Mail. Orange Schools Superintendent Ronald Lee on Wednesday confirmed the board’s decision, taken during a heated board meeting Tuesday, to fire Marylin Zuniga, the…

A Baltimore police officer on Friday was sentenced to six months in jail for beating an unarmed man at a bus stop in June, an attack that was captured on surveillance video, reports the Baltimore Sun. The sentence comes just weeks after a national furor erupted over the death of Freddie Gray, 25, from spinal…

Newlyweds Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson were suspended from the WNBA on Friday after their domestic violence arrests last month, according to the Associated Press. Each of them will miss seven games in the league’s longest suspensions in its 19-year history, the report says. The suspensions amount to more than one-fifth of the 34-game regular…

WNBA stars Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson were married Friday afternoon at an outdoor ceremony on a mountaintop in Phoenix, the couple tells People magazine. About 75 guests attended the ceremony as the women, both 24, married beneath an archway at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, the report says. They were surrounded by an…

A Georgia principal is under fire after making offensive remarks about blacks at a graduation ceremony Friday night, according to MyFoxAtlanta. Nancy Gordeuk, the principal of TNT Academy in Lilburn, Ga., apologized Saturday for remarks she made after becoming upset when students began leaving before the valedictorian’s speech. She yelled at students and even called…

In an effort to draw attention to police brutality and racial injustice, scores of mothers marched Saturday in Washington, D.C., to call attention to the problems, reports USA Today. Maria Hamilton, founder of Mothers for Justice United, helped organize the Million Moms March along with the Coalition for Justice, the report says. Dontre, Hamilton’s 31-year-old…