In an effort to contain the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, a hazardous-materials crew Friday decontaminated the Dallas apartment where a visitor from Liberia was staying when he fell ill, the Associated Press reports. Residents of the apartment unit where Thomas Eric Duncan had stayed were moved to a private residence in a gated…

Just days after the family of a 13-year-old Oakland, Calif., girl petitioned the courts to have an Alameda County judge declare the teen alive, the family’s lawyer released a video clip showing her responding to verbal commands. In video released Friday, Nailah Winkfield, the mother of Jahi McMath, asks her daughter to move her hand,…

A Georgia woman filed a tax return claiming the state owed her $94 million, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday. Problem was, the claim was false, authorities say. The woman, Brigitte Jackson, was arrested Friday when she attempted to pick up her check at a Cobb County bank, Channel 2 Action News reported. She was charged…

In a broad new policy, the Department of Justice is set to ban religious and other forms of profiling by federal law-enforcement officers, according to the Los Angeles Times. Under the new guidelines, to be issued in about three weeks, there will be no exemption for national-security investigations, sources told the newspaper. National-security officials and…

Police investigators are on the lookout for two men after a Ferguson, Mo., officer was shot while responding to a burglary report at a town community center, police said, according to the Los Angeles Times. The officer, whose name has not been released, reportedly confronted two males leaving the Ferguson Community Center about 9 p.m.…

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner Saturday evening, President Obama addressed the mistrust of police in black communities, according to a statement from the White House. He also announced the addition of a “community challenge” to his My Brother’s Keeper initiative in an effort to help all young people succeed. The…

A major Liberian newspaper, the Daily Observer, has published an article by a Liberian-born faculty member at Delaware State University saying the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the result of bioterrorism experiments conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense and others, according to the Washington Post. The article, written by Delaware State University associate professor…

A Georgia man has been charged with fatally shooting his girlfriend in front of her sister this week in Marietta, Ga., during a domestic dispute, according to the New York Daily News. David Junior Reid, of Marietta, allegedly used a 9 mm handgun to shoot Latasha Bell in the chest on Wednesday in the apartment…

The Justice Department on Friday ordered Ferguson, Mo., police officers to stop wearing “I am Darren Wilson” bracelets in support of the white officer who last month fatally shot an unarmed black teen, sparking weeks of protests, according to the Los Angeles Times. “These bracelets reinforce the very ‘us versus them’ mentality that many residents…

As the families of two Florida teens struggle to come to terms with their brutal deaths, they also find themselves in a struggle to pay for proper burials for the girls found dumped like trash on the side of a road. An online fundraiser has been established at YouCaring for Angelia Mangum, 19, and Tjhisha…