A 21-year-old man became enraged after his girlfriend’s mother used the n-word against him, the girl told Indonesian police investigating the death at a hotel in Bali in August, where the three were guests, according to the Associated Press. Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, are being held as suspects in the…

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,…

First, a note: This review is filled with spoilers, but if you have clicked on this story, it’s assumed that you, dear reader, are up-to-date on the goings-on of How to Get Away With Murder. If you aren’t, I have two questions that may take some deep thought: The first is “Why aren’t you caught…

A person with Ebola-like symptoms has been admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., reports NBC 4. According to the news station, the patient had recently traveled to Nigeria and was admitted to the hospital in stable condition. Doctors are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to determine whether…

Did police officers tell a group of black teens to get out of the mostly white Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Park Slope? One witness says yes. According to the New York Daily News, Sara Bennett said that on Sept. 22 she saw a group of five teens walking in the neighborhood when police pulled up…

Critics of the war on drugs are having one hell of a week. First California passes a law Sunday to equalize the prison sentences that black and white defendants convicted of drug crimes receive, and then, on Wednesday, Philadelphia passed legislation that will require police officers to ticket people who are in possession of small amounts of marijuana instead of…

Approximately 100 people received word from Texas health officials that they need to come in for questioning, and possibly an examination, because they may have had contact with Thomas E. Duncan, the New York Times is reporting. Duncan is the only known person to have been diagnosed in the U.S. with the Ebola virus.  The people being…