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  • Fired Army General Charged Nearly $3,000 in Nightclub Visits to Government Credit Card: Report

    According to the Department of Defense, the former top military aide to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter used his government credit card at gentlemen’s clubs in Korea and Italy last year, the Los Angeles Times reports. It is alleged that Army Major Gen. Ronald F. Lewis engaged in excessive drinking at the Candy Bar in Seoul,…

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  • NJ Train in Hoboken Terminal Crash Was Going 21 MPH

    The NJ Transit commuter train that crashed into the Hoboken Terminal was going twice the speed limit at the moment of impact, the National Transportation Safety Board said, NBC News reports. New details about the Sept. 29 crash that killed one person and injured hundreds more were released in an agency update Thursday. The NTSB said…

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  • #FreeBresha Day of Action in Support of Teen Jailed for Killing Her Abusive Father

    Updated Wednesday, Oct. 5, 8:30 p.m. EDT: The pretrial hearing for Bresha Meadows has been delayed because of “voluminous evidence being exchanged,” according to Bresha’s attorney Ian Friedman. “When we learned that Bresha was on suicide watch, we recognized the urgency of getting her released from jail,” said Mariame Kaba, a member of Survived & Punished…

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  • Donald Trump Appeared in Softcore-Porn Videos for Playboy Magazine

    Donald Trump should have kept his mouth shut a few weeks ago when he attacked former Miss Universe Alicia Machado on Twitter, telling his followers to check out her “sex tape.” Andrew Kaczynski, formerly of BuzzFeed, now with CNN, has uncovered three videos Trump made for Playboy, dating back to 1994. In a video from…

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  • Atlantic Coast Prepares for Evacuations as Hurricane Matthew Approaches

    The Atlantic coast is braced for the arrival of Hurricane Matthew, a deadly storm with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph that is expected to make landfall Thursday. The New York Times reports that the governors of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina have declared emergencies, and more than 7,800 National Guard soldiers were…

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  • Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sergeant Shot in Lancaster, Calif.

    Updated Wednesday, Oct. 5, 8:33 p.m. EDT: Sergeant Steve Owen, a 29-year veteran of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, has died as a result of his injuries, the Los Angeles Times reports. Earlier: A Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant has been gravely wounded after being shot in the face Wednesday afternoon in Lancaster, Calif., 70…

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  • Damian Marley Is Turning Calif. Prison Into Pot Farm 

    Damian Marley is turning a California prison that formerly housed nonviolent drug offenders into a cannabis-cultivation facility. Marley, 38, along with his business partner Ocean Grown Extracts, will be converting the 77,000-square-foot Claremont Custody Center into a farm that will grow medicinal marijuana for state dispensaries, Billboard reports. “Many people sacrificed so much for the…

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  • Registered Sex Offender Sues His Sexual Assault Victim for Defamation of Character

    A registered sex offender who pleaded no contest to felony assault and was sentenced to a year in jail sued his victim for defamation of character in a California court. Lang Her, 26, sued Yee Xiong, 24, on the day he was sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting Xiong after a party at…

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  • Flint, Mich., Residents Hit With Bacterial Illness as Water Crisis Continues

    Residents of Flint, Mich., have spent the last year finding creative ways to avoid using the city’s contaminated water supplies in their daily lives, but now a new threat adds an additional complication to an already frustrating situation: an outbreak of shigellosis. The New York Times reports that cases of the bacterial illness, which is…

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  • LAPD Releases Surveillance Video in Carnell Snell Jr. Shooting

    The Los Angeles Police Department released surveillance video Tuesday that shows the moments before police shot and killed an 18-year-old teen in South Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. The 45-second clip, which the LAPD posted to its YouTube channel, shows a suspect reported to be Carnell Snell Jr. in a shopping center. The young man…

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