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Felicia Green won’t be winning any grandmother-of-the-year awards if reports that she left her 5-month-old grandchild in a locked car while she went to the movies turn out to be true.  According to KLTV, Green, 49, was arrested last week and faces “child-endangerment charges” after she reportedly left her granddaughter strapped into a car seat inside…

Ferguson, Mo., police now have their sights set on finding one suspect they believe shot and wounded an officer in a Saturday-night altercation that is now being described very differently from when police first reported the incident. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, police initially reported that the officer saw two suspects breaking into a business.…

Growing up Mormon in rural Alabama sheltered me from many lessons that my friends and cousins had learned at an even younger age—some trivial (like how to cuss) and some more vital (like how to stand up for yourself, even when you’re afraid). In time, life would teach me these lessons and so many more.…

A Georgia woman filed a tax return claiming the state owed her $94 million, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday. Problem was, the claim was false, authorities say. The woman, Brigitte Jackson, was arrested Friday when she attempted to pick up her check at a Cobb County bank, Channel 2 Action News reported. She was charged…

In a broad new policy, the Department of Justice is set to ban religious and other forms of profiling by federal law-enforcement officers, according to the Los Angeles Times. Under the new guidelines, to be issued in about three weeks, there will be no exemption for national-security investigations, sources told the newspaper. National-security officials and…

Police investigators are on the lookout for two men after a Ferguson, Mo., officer was shot while responding to a burglary report at a town community center, police said, according to the Los Angeles Times. The officer, whose name has not been released, reportedly confronted two males leaving the Ferguson Community Center about 9 p.m.…

Speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner Saturday evening, President Obama addressed the mistrust of police in black communities, according to a statement from the White House. He also announced the addition of a “community challenge” to his My Brother’s Keeper initiative in an effort to help all young people succeed. The…

A major Liberian newspaper, the Daily Observer, has published an article by a Liberian-born faculty member at Delaware State University saying the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the result of bioterrorism experiments conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense and others, according to the Washington Post. The article, written by Delaware State University associate professor…

A Georgia man has been charged with fatally shooting his girlfriend in front of her sister this week in Marietta, Ga., during a domestic dispute, according to the New York Daily News. David Junior Reid, of Marietta, allegedly used a 9 mm handgun to shoot Latasha Bell in the chest on Wednesday in the apartment…

The Justice Department on Friday ordered Ferguson, Mo., police officers to stop wearing “I am Darren Wilson” bracelets in support of the white officer who last month fatally shot an unarmed black teen, sparking weeks of protests, according to the Los Angeles Times. “These bracelets reinforce the very ‘us versus them’ mentality that many residents…