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The family of slain Bronx, N.Y., teen Ramarley Graham agreed Friday to accept $3.9 million from New York City to settle their wrongful death lawsuit, the NewYork Daily News reports. “This was a tragic case,” City Law Department spokesman Nick Paolucci told the News. “This was a tragic case. After evaluating all the facts, and…

Serena Williams won her 19th grand-slam title Saturday night, continuing her winning streak in six Australian Open finals and extending her decadelong command over Maria Sharapova with a 6-3, 7-6(5) victory despite a hacking cough, the Associated Press reports. Williams initially celebrated prematurely on her third match point, “letting her racket go before hearing a…

Rashanda McCants and Devon Ramsay, two former student-athletes from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, filed a lawsuit last Thursday against their alma mater and the NCAA because they contend that they were veered away from “academically sound classes” and did not receive “legitimate educational instruction,” USA Today reports. McCants, a former member…

George Zimmerman’s ex-girlfriend, 28-year-old Brittany Brunelle, is backpedaling from her accusation that her former beau threw a wine bottle at her, the Associated Press reports. As a result, Phil Archer, a Florida state attorney, said that he is no longer pursuing an aggravated assault case against Zimmerman, since his accuser has recanted her story and…

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office is outraged after Jami Tillotson, a deputy public defender at the office, was arrested Tuesday outside a courtroom for asking a plainclothes officer not to interview her client or take his photograph. According to a video released by the defender’s office, Tillotson and her client, an African-American male, are…

A 65-year-old white Missouri man was arrested and charged with a hate crime after he reportedly used racial slurs toward a black waitress whom he also allegedly told, “I have a place I would like to take you where I hung your grandpa.”  Tommy Dean Gaa, of Maryville, reportedly told the waitress, after she asked…

Loretta Lynch, Obama’s nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, held her own at Wednesday’s eight-hour confirmation hearing before the Senate, Al-Jazeera reports. Lynch lobbied back “measured answers” to questions from Republicans who were hell-bent on attacking Obama and Holder for how the Justice Department, they argue, has become “politicized.” Senate Republicans pressed Lynch on…

Myron May, the 31-year-old Florida State University 2005 alum who went on a shooting spree in the school’s library in November, can be seen carrying out the attack in new surveillance video recently released to the public, the New York Daily News reports. The footage shows May—conservatively dressed in a long-sleeved shirt, vest and baseball…