The Victoria Police Department in Texas is being sued by a woman who claims officers broke her ribs during an unlawful arrest. According to the Victoria Advocate, Mary Jones filed a lawsuit against the Victorian Police department and several officers for a December 2013 incident. Jones says she was sleeping on the night of December 22, 2013, when […]
Two people have been arrested in connection with the rape of Texas teenager Jada, who ignited a firestorm of support after her alleged attacker posted photos of the teen drugged and unconscious online. According to MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow, a minor and an adult were arrested in the rape case. Jada’s story caught the attention of […]
A school board member from Hooks, Texas issued an apology after posting a joke about the Ku Klux Klan on Facebook. Chris Harris, a board member in the Hooks Independent School District, posted the meme above to his Facebook page on November 24th. After he received a large amount of backlash earlier this week regarding the […]
The family of the Liberian man who died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital last month will receive a settlement from Texas Health Presbyterian that will help take care of his parents and four children. The terms of the settlement for Thomas Eric Duncan’s family was not disclosed, but a lawyer for the family said it would […]
A Texas teacher who posted a racially-charged tweet regarding the fatal shooting of Ferguson, Mo. teenager Michael Brown Jr. at the hands of a white police officer has been placed on administrative leave without pay. School officials from the Duncanville Independent School District are now investigating Vinita Hegwood, promising a “swift action” response to the tweet where Hegwood […]
An elderly man by the name of John Franklin Forbes has been arrested in Oregon after spending 20 years on the run. Linked to one of New York’s biggest drug cases, the 72-year-old was caught after he felt sick and applied for Social Security benefits using his real identity, according to the Lane County […]
A former Texas police officer with a foot fetish asked to smell a woman’s feet in exchange for not arresting her. Officer Patrick Quinn of the Cy-Fair school district in Texas pulled over a woman, accusing her of withholding marijuana. Instead of arresting her, Quinn asked to smell her feet. The officer then proceeded to ask the woman […]
A week after her family announced that the Ebola virus could no longer be detected in her body, authorities are confirming that Texas nurse Amber Vinson is virus-free. An Emory University Hospital spokeswoman said the Dallas nurse, who was diagnosed with the deadly virus after treating Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, will be released Tuesday. […]
UPDATE 11:43 AM EST: We are sad to report that Lynzee Ford passed away on Thursday night. According to ESPN, she lost her battle with cancer just days after her inspirational graduation ceremony. As we reported earlier, she was just 17 years old and was determined to earn her diploma after being told she only […]
Indiana police have identified Texas sex offender Darren Deon Vann as the main suspect involving the murder of 19-year-old Afrikka Hardy and six other women in Gary, Indiana. The 43-year-old confessed to the murders Monday morning after Hardy was found strangled to death in a Motel 6 on Friday. Vann, who hasn’t been charged with the […]
Residents of Nigeria and Senegal can now breathe a little easier, after both countries were declared free of the deadly Ebola virus. The World Health Organization listed the countries disease-free after no new cases were reported in the 42-day testing period. ‘Nigeria is now free of Ebola,’ WHO representative Rui Gama Vaz told a news conference in the […]
The families of Texas Ebola patients Thomas Eric Duncan and Amber Vinson have spoken out following claims that Vinson, the second nurse who contracted the virus while nursing the late Duncan, was careless for traveling after being exposed to Ebola. Vinson’s family released a statement on Sunday, reiterating that the nurse was cleared multiple times to travel. […]
