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  • Report: 96 Percent of Flint, Mich., Homes Tested Below Federal Lead Threshold

    A report from the state of Michigan says that more than 96 percent of the water samples tested in high-risk homes in the city of Flint in November were below the federal lead threshold of 15 parts per billion, providing evidence of improvements in the system. The results were announced Friday by the Michigan Department…

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  • Ala. Inmate Executed by Lethal Injection After US Supreme Court Denies Stay

    An Alabama inmate was executed Thursday night after the U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked on a stay of execution. Robert Bert Smith Jr. was executed at the Holman Correctional Facility by lethal injection. AL.com reports that during the 34-minute execution, Smith heaved and coughed for about 13 minutes and underwent two consciousness tests to make sure…

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  • Victoria’s Secret Employee Fired After Making Black Customers Leave Ala. Store

    Victoria’s Secret said Thursday that an employee who forced all black customers to leave an Alabama store after a shoplifting incident Wednesday is no longer with the company. Kimberly N. Houzah, a traveling nurse who says she is a frequent customer at Victoria’s Secret, recorded an 11-minute Facebook Live video as the incident happened at…

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  • Dylann Roof Explains Charleston, SC, Church Shooting in Videotaped Confession

    Jurors in the trial of Dylann Roof on Friday got to hear him explain in his own words the motive for the shooting that left nine black churchgoers dead last year. Roof, now 22, was arrested in Shelby, N.C., the morning after the June 2015 shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,…

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  • Felony Charge Dropped for Jury Foreman as He Served on Michael Slager Trial 

    The lone black juror who also served as foreman during the Michael Slager trial had a pending felony charge against him that was mysteriously dropped by prosecutors during the Slager trial. Dorsey Montgomery, 34, was indicted last year on the charge of breach of trust with fraudulent intent, which carries a sentence of up to…

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  • Judge Rules Cosby Civil Deposition Testimony Can Be Used in Criminal Trial

    Prosecutors in Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial next year will be able to use testimony he gave during depositions for an accuser’s lawsuit, a judge ruled Monday. Attorneys for Cosby, 78, claim that he only agreed to testify in the 2005 lawsuit brought by Andrea Constand because a prior prosecutor had promised him that he…

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  • Muslim NYPD Officer Speaks Out About Being Target of Weekend Hate Attack

    A Muslim New York City police officer who was allegedly a victim of a hate crime over the weekend spoke with reporters Monday about her experience. Officer Aml Elsokary said in the press conference, covered by CBS New York, that crimes like this will not be tolerated. “I have faith that Allah is going to…

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  • #WalterScott: Lone Juror Appears to Be Holdout in Guilty Verdict 

    Updated, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, 2 p.m. EST: One juror in the Walter Scott murder trial apparently refuses to vote for a guilty verdict, thereby deadlocking the jury in the high-profile murder case. The juror, identified only as a 50-year-old male, told the judge Friday that he could not “with good conscience approve a guilty verdict” against…

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  • Suspected Pharmacy Burglars Nabbed for Stealing Cough Syrup With GPS Tracker

    Two men suspected of a series of pharmacy burglaries this year were recently caught by police after allegedly stealing a bottle of cough syrup that had a GPS tracker inside it. Police in Tustin, Calif., had been trying to figure out who was behind a half-dozen pharmacy burglaries this year. Lt. Robert Wright of the…

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  • City of Flint Joins State of Mich. in Fight Against Mandatory Water Delivery

    The city of Flint has joined the state of Michigan in the fight against a federal court order requiring door-to-door delivery of bottled water to residents. Lawyers for the city filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday saying the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson is “overbroad,”…

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