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A bizarre case has taken an even stranger turn after District of Columbia police arrested a 21-year-old woman and charged her with first-degree murder in the killing of young newlywed David Messerschmitt. It all began Feb. 9, when Messerschmitt, 30, logged into Craigslist and posted an ad looking for gay sex under the name “dcguy456.” He…

Gunmen stormed onto a college campus in Kenya right before dawn Thursday and began shooting students and taking hostages, CNN reports. Islamist terrorist group al-Shabab, based in Somalia, took responsibility for the attack, which claimed at least 140 lives. Students at Garrisa University College who witnessed the attack described how the attackers killed students based…

What happened Monday night on a Detroit street during a traffic stop by police is still unclear, but a father has lost his son and he still doesn’t have any answers as to how he died.  Anthony Clark, 24, was pulled over by police for having tinted windows on his Dodge Charger, which is a…

During the winter, a public transportation agency in Massachusetts paid inmates approximately $3 to $4 a day to shovel snow—without the appropriate weather gear—including on days when the temperature dropped to the single digits, ThinkProgress reports. After getting wind of reports that inmates had endured freezing workdays after being assigned to help with the Massachusetts…

A noose was found hanging from a tree on Duke University’s campus early Wednesday morning, the school newspaper The Chronicle reports. It’s the latest in a string of racially offensive incidents that have been occurring on college campuses nationwide. A student at the University of Mississippi suspected of draping a noose and a Confederate flag…

Eleven Atlanta educators, including teachers, testing coordinators and administrators, were found guilty Wednesday of orchestrating one of the country’s biggest cheating scandals, one in which teachers falsified records and student test scores to show massive improvements in learning in order to earn money for their respective schools and themselves. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which…

A Texas man upset with his girlfriend who wanted a cut from a $500 winning scratch-off lottery ticket reportedly shot her and then turned the gun on himself, according to Fort Worth police who spoke with the Star-Telegram Tuesday. “We received information that the suspect had won $500 on a Texas lottery scratch-off ticket and that…

Anthony Stokes, a 17-year-old Georgia teen who captured national headlines in 2013 after initially being denied a heart transplant because of run-ins with the law—and who would later receive a heart transplant—died Tuesday, the New York Daily News reports, after crashing a stolen car into a pole while fleeing an armed robbery, officials said. Stokes…

New Jersey State Police and Cumberland County officials have launched an investigation into the death of Phillip White, 32, who, according to witnesses, was beaten and kicked by police after he was cuffed and unconscious on the ground. According to NBC 10, Vineland, N.J., police arrested White around 11 a.m. Tuesday, and he died shortly…

Harry Draughn is claiming in a lawsuit that he was hazed while trying to join a Maryland alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, the Washington Post reports. What’s more alarming is that Draughn says the man who led the hazing is a Maryland police officer. Jesse Stewart Jr. is reportedly the intake chairman of the…