In what marks the seventh fatal shooting involving St. Louis-area cops since Michael Brown’s death last August, a Wellston police officer mortally injured a man during a traffic stop…
Every so often we get a local election that has a huge impact on the outlook and direction of Black America. There are cities that…
HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — A retired police officer apparently shot his two teenage daughters to death and then killed himself in the family’s suburban New York home, a police official said Sunday. Harrison Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said the deaths of 52-year-old Glen Hochman and his daughters Alissa and Deanna on Saturday “would appear to […]
Three teens, Dominic “Nick” McDaniel, 18, Issac M. “Malik” Carter and Ce-Antonyo D. Kennedy, both 17, have been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has completed its investigation into the police shooting of an unarmed, black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, a U.S. official said Wednesday. The Justice Department has not yet announced whether it will file a federal civil rights charge against former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. But officials and experts have said […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Two suspects were being questioned Tuesday about the shootings of two plainclothes police officers responding to a grocery store robbery. One of the suspects was seen on a surveillance video from the crime scene in the Bronx, police said. No charges have been filed. Both officers are listed in stable condition. […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday extended for 45 days a temporary restraining order requiring Missouri law enforcement officers to give protesters a reasonable chance to disperse before using tear gas. U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson extended the order she issued last month after attorneys for law enforcement agencies and protesters who […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A manhunt was under way Tuesday for at least two suspects who shot and wounded two New York City police officers responding to a robbery in the Bronx. Both officers were listed in stable condition. Police say one of the suspects may have been wounded in the gunfire. They were trying […]
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — It’s doubtful they were aware, but the rioters who torched Juanita Morris’ dress shop had strayed a couple of blocks beyond the Ferguson city limits and into the town of Dellwood. Such is the indiscriminate nature of rage. But walking amid the ashes of 28 years of work, Juanita Morris was […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — The city is hoping to hand over the investigation of a 12-year-old boy’s fatal shooting by police to an outside agency, as well as future investigations of all deadly use-of-force cases. Michael McGrath, the city’s safety director and its former police chief, has been in talks with Cuyahoga County officials for the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of law enforcement officers killed by firearms jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush deaths. But gun-related police deaths still remain far below historic highs and lower than the average annual figures in the past decade, according to a report released Tuesday. The annual report by the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Death Row Records founder Suge Knight has appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom and rescheduled a hearing in his felony robbery case. Knight made a brief appearance on Tuesday, a day before he was set to attend a scheduling conference on a charge involving the theft of a camera in September. […]
