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  • La. Man Lights Wife on Fire After Spraying Hair Spray on Her: Report

    John Emmett Harleaux, 28, of Baton Rouge, La., was arrested after allegedly lighting his wife on fire during an argument, CBS News reports. He was arrested Tuesday on a felony count of domestic abuse by burning. According to CBS News, during an argument in September, Harleaux began spraying his wife with flammable hair spray. He then…

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  • Spanish-Immersion School in Calif. Vandalized With Pro-Trump Graffiti

    On Monday, students and employees tried to clean up the graffiti that was left on multiple walls, a door and a trash can at Cali Calmecac Language Academy in Windsor, Calif., Raw Story reports. The vandalism consisted of messages that read “Trump 2016” and “Build the Wall Higher.” “I know children are nervous about this. It…

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  • White Feminists Gotta Go: Amy Schumer's White Woman Foolishness

    White feminists gotta go. This age-old adage was affirmed Sunday when the painstakingly pale Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn desecrated timelines and Tidal subscriptions everywhere with their sub-basic brand of white feminism. In a poorly executed attempt at parodying Beyoncé’s pro-black anthem “Formation,” the CultureVultureTwins™ and their black friend dressed up in dirty T-shirts, bulletproof vests…

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  • Man Beats and Sexually Assaults 15-Year-Old, Then Dunks Her in River to Remove Evidence: Report

    A man allegedly beat a 15-year-old girl at a park in the Bronx borough of New York City, sexually assaulted her and then attempted to wash off his DNA evidence on her body by forcing her into a river, the New York Daily News reports. The man reportedly attacked the teen at Bronx Park, where she…

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  • Mich. Girl Mauled to Death by Dog

    Kiyana McNeal, 4, of St. Joseph County, Mich., was trying to train her brand-new dog with a treat when it jumped on her and mauled her to death, the New York Daily News reports. “The dog come and sniffed it and then stepped back. Then come, sniffed it again,” said neighbor Becky Davis. “And evidently the…

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  • Report: Man Stabs Churchgoer for Apparently No Reason

    Billy Lewis, 65, allegedly stood up during Sunday school at the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Sumter, S.C., and stabbed a fellow parishioner sitting in the pew in front of him, according to the Huffington Post. The unidentified victim had wounds to his neck, shoulder and the back of his head. He was treated…

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  • NYC Man Charged in Kidnap, Extortion and Killing of Landlord 

    Erskin Felix, 38, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was the mastermind of a plan that resulted in charges of first-degree kidnapping and second-degree murder in the abduction and death of a wealthy landlord, officials say. His brother, Kendall Felix, 28, was also arrested in the case on charges of hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence, CBS News reports.…

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  • Fla. Man Convicted in Racially Motivated Murder Gets a New Trial

    Jacob Dougan was convicted for the 1974 racially motivated murder of Stephen Orlando, 18, in Jacksonville, Fla., over four decades ago and is now going to receive a new trial, CBS News reports. Police said that Dougan was one of many who were part of a group called the Black Liberation Army. Apparently, group members…

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  • NYC Woman Whose Child Died in Fire While Left Home Alone Will Not Face Jail Time

    Leila Aquino, 21, faces three years’ probation after pleading guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Kalenah Muldrow, in February, CBS News reports. Aquino was out working as a stripper when her apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., caught fire. When she returned home, firefighters had already…

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  • 94-Year-Old Black Judge Writes Scathing Dissent in Ohio’s Longest-Running Civil Rights Case

    Federal appeals judge Damon Keith is one of several black judges involved in Ohio’s longest-running voting lawsuit, one that strikes at the heart of voter suppression in one of the most significant of the “battleground states.” And he’s not the only one. In the decade-old case, Judge Keith said he was “deeply saddened and distraught”…

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