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CHICAGO (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who was struck in the face last year by a stray bullet fired during a drive-by shooting accidentally shot himself in the hand this week with a gun his father had obtained illegally, Chicago police said Wednesday. Kavan Collins found the loaded, uncased gun under a mattress in an […]
DETROIT (AP) — A former Michigan State Police trooper was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the death of a Detroit teenager who crashed an all-terrain vehicle after being shot with a stun gun. Mark Bessner had no “legal justification” to fire his Taser from his moving patrol car while trying to stop 15-year-old Damon […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff John Kelly has met with a group of black Republicans to promote the administration in the aftermath of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s departure. Kelly told the group of black Republicans that “we are looking for talented young men and women” who would be willing to serve the country. […]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Texas police sergeant has been fired for ordering a rookie officer to use a stun gun on a woman who had called for help during a domestic dispute. Fort Worth police Chief Joel Fitzgerald said in an emailed statement that he fired Sgt. Kenneth Pierce on Monday, saying the […]
According to the Miami New Times, if you live in the Sistrunk neighborhood of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the local Pizza Hut will not deliver to you after 7 p.m. Writer Adam Weinstein pointed out that the popular eatery located on 1239 S. Federal Highway has this policy prominently displayed of not accepting nighttime deliveries […]
The first African-American police chief of Charlottesville, Virginia, abruptly retired Monday, about two weeks after a scathing independent review criticized his “slow-footed response” to violence at a white nationalist rally this summer. In a brief statement, the city did not give a reason for Chief Al Thomas‘ departure, which was effective immediately. “Nothing in my […]
In what is nothing short of a heartbreaking and tragic head scratcher, authorities are investigating the targeted shooting of 15-year-old Brian Jasso who was helping his step-dad deliver newspapers. The incident happened on Sunday morning on Chicago’s Southwest side around 6:49 a.m. in the 5100 block of West 47th Street in the city’s LeClaire Courts neighborhood, […]
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont man who in a jealous rage doused his estranged wife with industrial-strength lye and burned her so badly she needed a face transplant has died at a Pennsylvania hospital. Sixty-two-year-old Herbert Rodgers had been serving a 30- to 70-year prison sentence in Pennsylvania and died Monday. Vermont officials say […]
There’s been an arrest in the murder case of NBA player Lorenzen Wright. Seven years after Wright’s bullet-riddled body was found decomposing in a Tennessee suburb, Sherra Wright Robinson, his ex-wife, was arrested Friday night in Riverside, Calif., reports Fox13. “Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus! They got her! They got her!’’ Lorenzen Wright’s mother, Deborah Marion, told […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Once again, black women showed up for Democrats, with nearly all of them voting in Alabama for new Sen. Doug Jones, just as they did for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot in other states over the last few months. The same women, having proven their loyalty by voting 98 percent […]