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Sudanese soldiers reportedly raped more than 200 women and girls in a North Darfur village during an eight-hour attack last week, according to AllAfrica.com. According to the website, on Friday morning a Sudanese military commander, stationed close to the village Tabit, said that one of his soldiers went missing Thursday evening. The commander then reportedly…

Three more women have come forward to make claims against Daniel Holtzclaw, the Oklahoma police officer charged with raping eight black women while on duty, according to News 9. Holtzclaw was arrested and charged with 26 counts of rape, sexual battery, indecent exposure and oral sodomy after women came forward in August. Now three more…

Two New York City police officers who reportedly punched a teen and then hit him in the face with a gun have been indicted by a grand jury and will be arraigned Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, according to sources who spoke with the New York Post. The Post notes that on Aug. 29, officers…

SWAT-team members were sent to a neighborhood in Racine, Wis., when Kim Polk called authorities after a dispute over dog feces led a neighbor to threaten to attack her with a bow and arrow and a machete, reports the New York Daily News. Once police arrived, Polk’s neighbor threatened the police, too, with with his bow…

A Detroit teen was brutally beaten by up to 12 students last Wednesday for his $130 Nike Air Force 1 sneakers, commonly referred to as “Uptowns.” According to the Detroit Free Press, some older students at Allen Academy tried to take 16-year-old Willie Wallace’s sneakers sometime last month. Those students and Willie were suspended over…

Philadelphia police are asking for the public’s help finding a 22-year-old woman whose abduction was caught on tape, reports New York’s Daily News. Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was abducted while walking through Pennsylvania’s Germantown neighborhood around 9:40 p.m. on Nov. 2. Security video captured the assailant driving to the street, getting out of the four-door sedan and…

They have served their country and made sacrifices that most of us can never imagine. Some come home with physical injuries, many with emotional problems, and all are looking for ways to move forward with their lives. They are veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or serving on duty standing watch over the…

Sometime last year, a Memphis, Tenn., woman drove up to a Goodwill and hopped out of a car. A videotape from the store shows the woman unloading items from her trunk into a cart with the help of a man believed to be a Goodwill employee. The man then rolls the cart inside the store…