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Theodore Wafer, the Detroit-area man on trial for fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old woman, told jurors Monday that he “wasn’t going to cower” after hearing loud banging at his front door. During the seventh day of the trial for Wafer, who faces second-degree-murder charges for the killing of Renisha McBride, jurors heard testimony about the…

On the football field, Michael Strahan was known for hitting quarterbacks on their blind side, the Daily Mail writes. But last weekend the gridiron star was the one who was blindsided when word leaked that he and his longtime fiancee, Nicole Murphy, were calling it quits a day before he was slated to be inducted…

A graphic video of a New York City bodega shooting has made its way across the Web, showing what is now being reported as a rap-video filming turned bad. According to the New York Daily News, the shooting occurred Saturday around 1:15 a.m. after two men, whom witnesses described as friends, began arguing during a…

At first it appeared that a veteran United Airlines flight attendant died brutally at the hands of her daughter’s boyfriend, who was looking to grab some fast bucks, according to reports by various news outlets. But now her pregnant teen daughter has been charged alongside her boyfriend in a grisly plot involving greed and revenge…

More than 40 African heads of state touched down in Washington, D.C., on Monday for the first-ever three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit and White House gala, but concerns about the deadly Ebola virus loom over the event—potentially overshadowing the festivities. As the summit kicks off, a second American infected with Ebola is expected to be brought…

A California segment of Beyoncé and Jay Z’s tour took a bit(e) of a turn after a fan who had inappropriately touched a woman bit off part of her boyfriend’s finger after he came to her aid, police told the Pasadena Star-News. According to the Star-News, Roberto Alcaraz-Garnica of San Diego allegedly groped a woman…

Concern over the latest Ebola outbreak continued to mount Monday after Nigeria’s health minister confirmed a second case in a doctor who treated a victim last month in Lagos, one of Africa’s most populous cities, according to Reuters. The doctor had treated Patrick Sawyer, who died in Lagos last month after arriving by plane from…

President Barack Obama turned 53 on Monday, and the Associated Press notes that POTUS spent his birthday weekend playing golf with his childhood friends and then hit his Maryland hideaway, Camp David, for a little rest and relaxation. On Saturday Obama hit the greens at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for a game of…

Houston police say that a group of men in a truck who smashed into a beauty store and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of expensive weaves and wigs may have also done the same type of smash-and-grab at a cellphone store later the same morning. Authorities told Click 2 Houston that the high-priced hair heist…

Dr. Kent Brantly, a doctor who contracted Ebola in Liberia during a Christian mission before being flown back to the U.S. this past week for treatment, appears to be “improving,” according to Dr. Thomas Frieden, who appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday. “It’s encouraging that he seems to be improving,” Frieden, director of…