Gunmen stormed onto a college campus in Kenya right before dawn Thursday and began shooting students and taking hostages, CNN reports. Islamist terrorist group al-Shabab, based in Somalia, took responsibility for the attack, which claimed at least 140 lives. Students at Garrisa University College who witnessed the attack described how the attackers killed students based…

During the winter, a public transportation agency in Massachusetts paid inmates approximately $3 to $4 a day to shovel snow—without the appropriate weather gear—including on days when the temperature dropped to the single digits, ThinkProgress reports. After getting wind of reports that inmates had endured freezing workdays after being assigned to help with the Massachusetts…

A noose was found hanging from a tree on Duke University’s campus early Wednesday morning, the school newspaper The Chronicle reports. It’s the latest in a string of racially offensive incidents that have been occurring on college campuses nationwide. A student at the University of Mississippi suspected of draping a noose and a Confederate flag…

Anthony Stokes, a 17-year-old Georgia teen who captured national headlines in 2013 after initially being denied a heart transplant because of run-ins with the law—and who would later receive a heart transplant—died Tuesday, the New York Daily News reports, after crashing a stolen car into a pole while fleeing an armed robbery, officials said. Stokes…

Harry Draughn is claiming in a lawsuit that he was hazed while trying to join a Maryland alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, the Washington Post reports. What’s more alarming is that Draughn says the man who led the hazing is a Maryland police officer. Jesse Stewart Jr. is reportedly the intake chairman of the…

When Phyllis Jefferson, 50, an Ohio woman, saw that her boyfriend had eaten all the salsa they were sharing, she stabbed him with a pen, a report claims, and then went to get a small kitchen knife and stabbed 61-year-old Ronnie Buckner again in the stomach, NBC News reports.   According to reports, between stabbing Buckner…

Danielle Zimmerman, 41, had just suffered a brain aneurysm and crashed her car into a Taco Bell drive-thru in Kansas when, prosecutors say, 21-year-old Dacquantrius Johnson and two of his friends approached Zimmerman’s car and stole her purse and the wedding ring off her finger—all while Zimmerman lay dying in the car, the New York…

In order for Navy SEAL teams to hunt down terrorists, or for foreign policy analysts to track the movement of WMDs—or to detect whether Iran is, in fact, developing a nuclear weapons program—our leaders rely on special pilots to capture that type of intelligence through the use of spy-plane cameras. Merryl Tengesdal (that’s Lt. Col.…

Rudeness will not be tolerated in Kyesha Smith Wood’s Alabama household, even if it occurs in a public space like a movie theater—and even it happens when Wood, a mother of three, is not there. When Wood caught wind of how her daughter and stepdaughter were acting the plum fool at a local movie theater…