On Friday an arbitrator pulled the plug on any dream that Adrian Peterson, the suspended Minnesota Vikings running back, had of returning to a National Football League playing field anytime soon. Harold Henderson, a former NFL executive vice president for labor relations and the hearing officer appointed by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, ruled that Peterson must…

A 15-year-old boy in Lynwood, Ill., fatally shot himself in the head while video-chatting with a friend in what police initially suspected was a tragic accident but was ruled a suicide by the coroner, the New York Daily News writes. Blake Hannett, a sophomore at Marian Catholic High School, was found slumped in a chair…

A missing 11-month-old boy from Houston was found Friday in Mexico during an intense search sparked by the discovery of his mother’s mutilated body at her home, police said, according to the New York Daily News. Achilles Lambert, who police say was abandoned by his father, Patrick Lambert, 38, was found in good condition in…

The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the University of Maryland chapter of Delta Gamma Sorority is under fire after social media picked up on a recent Instagram of a member celebrating her 21st birthday standing next to a three-layer cake inscribed with “Suck a n—ga d—k.” The university’s Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life tweeted…

The star of America’s once-beloved television father figure, Bill Cosby, continues to fade literally and figuratively amid increasing allegations of assault charges, including a lawsuit. Cosby’s five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass star, located on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, was scrawled with “rapist” three times, according to the New York Daily News. “The Hollywood Walk of Fame is…

No charges were ever filed against white Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed 18-year-old unarmed Michael Brown last summer, but authorities are pursuing assault charges against an unarmed black man who allegedly pushed a city marshal during a demonstration against police brutality, Time magazine reports. Rasheen Aldridge, 20, the youngest member…

President Barack Obama thought he was just going to the doctor on Saturday to get checked for a sore throat. Turns out he suffers from acid reflux, the president’s physician said, according to Reuters. “The president’s symptoms are consistent with soft tissue inflammation related to acid reflux and will be treated accordingly,” Obama’s doctor, Capt.…

A nationwide peaceful protest movement designed to shine the spotlight on police violence in the black community turned violent in Berkeley, Calif., late Saturday as demonstrators smashed windows and threw rocks and bricks at officers, the Associated Press reports. Several officers were struck, but there were just two reports of injury, Berkeley police spokeswoman Jenn…

A drama about the summer afternoon in 1989 when Barack Obama and his future first lady, Michelle Robinson, had their first date is scheduled to begin filming this summer in Chicago, the couple’s hometown, Deadline Hollywood reports. The film, Southside With You, will feature Tika Sumpter (Get on Up) as Michelle Obama, who was born…

The U.S. Supreme Court is slated to review whether Texas’ rejection of a proposed license plate featuring the Confederate flag—a racially divisive emblem from the Civil War era—violated the free-speech rights of the group that wanted the special plates, the Washington Post reports. Courts are divided over whether government may choose among the political messages…