News
The case of the man accused of killing a student at Texas Southern University earlier this month is moving forward. ABC 13 Houston reports: The suspect, Jartis Leblanc, Jr., did not appear in-person at probable cause court Sunday afternoon. The judge in the case set bonds of $50,000. LeBlanc, 22, is charged with murder and aggravated […]
Sunday church services were interrupted when a man with a brick attacked a pastor in Detroit. Moments later the brick-wielding man was dead. Detroit News reports: The incident happened about 15 minutes into the 1:30 p.m. service at the City of God ministries storefront church on Grand River near Lahser, Assistant Chief Steve Dolunt said. […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Students from the Los Angeles and Compton Unified School Districts will learn what it’s like to work in Hollywood at the first Careers in Film Summit. The daylong event Saturday at the film academy’s Beverly Hills headquarters will showcase various work opportunities on both sides of the camera. Agents, animators, writers, […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana must continue providing Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics for 14 more days while a legal battle continues over Gov. Bobby Jindal’s recent order to block the funding, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles in Baton Rouge heard arguments Friday. His order was signed Sunday and made […]
A Chicago man is being charged with felony child endangerment after his six-year-old son accidentally shot and killed his younger brother with a gun. CNN.com reports: The boys were playing “cops and robbers” when the gun went off, according to authorities. It happened while their dad, Michael Santiago, 25, was at work, their mom was at […]
A handwritten letter by Malcolm X will go on sale this week for a whopping $1.25 million, reports the New York Post. The letter, written by Malcolm who was born Malcolm Little, then became Malcolm X and then El Hajj Malik El Shabazz after his conversion to Islam was intended for an unknown recipient. The […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After a California couple called off their wedding, the bride-to-be’s family decided to turn the $35,000 extravagant event into a feast for the homeless. The bride’s mother, Kari Duane, said Sunday that rather than cancel the reception, they invited Sacramento’s homeless for a once in a lifetime meal Saturday at the […]
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A shooting at the annual ZombiCon gathering in Florida has left one person dead and five more injured, causing a chaotic scene that sent throngs of zombie-dressed revelers running through the streets, police said Sunday. The shooting happened around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, just 15 minutes before the event officially ended. […]
An ineffective system has left Tamir Rice and Eric Garner -- two high-profile police brutality victims of the previous year -- off the federal government's official record of homicides by officers. In fact, out of 18,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States, 17,776 refused to provide such data
#SayHerName Zella Ziona, murdered at 21 years old. Rest in peace beautiful. #BlackLivesMatter #ProtectTransLives pic.twitter.com/IzoFSQRXKc — Sage (@sagerxo) October 16, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js 21-year-old Zella Ziona…
Conservative website DailyCaller.com grabbed a SnapChat screenshot of Malia Obama standing next to someone who may or may have not been playing the popular college game beer pong.
Kevin Van Miltenburg, of Roy, Utah, refuses to remove a so-called animated hangman wearing a noose and gunny sack--or lynching scene--from his front yard even after the NAACP informed him that it was racially offensive.
