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A 74-year-old Black woman named Joyce Watkins can attest to being wrongfully convicted of a crime she didn't commit only to be exonerated after spending over two-and-a-half decades behind bars.
Some thieves are going back to the old Wild West-style train robberies outside both the busy ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, delaying retail shipments of items like at-home COVID-19 tests, fishing lures plus parcels from Amazon, REI and UPS.
An Ohio pastor is being investigated by police for running multiple illegal funeral businesses across the state. He is now facing a slew of new charges after investigators uncovered the remains of 89 people in boxes and bags at his abandoned church in Akron.
An investigative report led by Steptoe & Johnson LLP produced a more than 660-page document that spelled out all sorts of crimes being committed by the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force, from robbing and beating residents to dealing drugs.
Fans of TikTok influencer Rory Teasley are mourning his death after his boyfriend of 10 years allegedly strangled him during a fight over a video game.
Damari Perry, the 6-year-old North Chicago boy who was reported missing by his family, was killed by them on his birthday and his body was discarded like trash.
Newly-elected New York City mayor, Eric Adams, is already catching heat for claiming white supremacy is the reason behind his decision to appoint his younger brother as a deputy police commissioner.
After securing a nomination for the role by President Joe Biden last summer, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins rose in the ranks today to officially become U.S. attorney for Massachusetts and the first Black women to ever occupy the title.
It appears that officials in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District are looking to make some social change by renaming a handful of educational institutions named after known slaveowners and those who supported racist ideologies.
Thousands of Chicago students remained out of school for a second straight day Thursday after leaders of the nation’s third-largest school district failed to resolve a deepening clash with the influential teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols.
Officer Laquandia Cooley experienced the unthinkable after checking into a shooting on Larkin Street in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. What she found when she got there was her 20-year-old son, Charles Stewart Jr., laying in the middle of the street as the victim of a fatal shooting.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp pushed for a new state gun law during a press conference on Wednesday at the Adventure Outdoors, an outdoor sports store located about 15 miles Northwest of Atlanta. The new law would do away with the license needed to carry a handgun in public, openly or concealed on one’s body.
