Louisville, KY

Columbus, OH

ComingSoon

Disclaimer: The article contains mentions of death. Reader discretion is advised. In August 2014, an 18-year-old boy named Michael Brown died after getting shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Reports suggested that police officer Darren Wilson fatally shot the unarmed boy after having an altercation. The killing of Michael Brown prompted people from the community to stage protests against the authorities. Subsequently, the FBI initiated an investigation into the case and interrogated several people. After investigating the case for almost a month, authorities concluded that Darren Wilson would not face any charges.

Darren Wilson Today: What Happened to the Ex-Ferguson Police Officer After Michael Brown’s Death?

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Herbie J Pilato

In the mid-1970s, Good Timesmade a star of actor/comedian Jimmy 'JJ'/'Dynomite' Walker. However, behind the scenes, the tension between the stars was relatively challenging. According to what Jimmie Walker once relayed, most of the show's cast rarely had any interaction behind the camera. Walker didn't recall having any conversations with actress Esther Rolle, who played his TV mother, Florida Evans, or actor John Amos, who played James Evans, his TV mother.

Actor/Comedian Jimmie "JJ" Walker Behind the Scenes of TV's 'Good Times' in the 1970s

Lexington, KY

In 2022, 23-year-old Sophia Rosing went viral after a video captured her physically and verbally assaulting 19-year-old Kylah Spring. At the time, Spring revealed she tried to check on Rosing, who seemed drunk and needed help. However, the treatment she got in return was quite unfortunate. The viral video of Sophia Rosing’s racial attack showed her violently kicking, punching, and biting Spring. To make matters worse, she used the N-word repeatedly on the victim. Spring also went into detail about what happened in a TikTok video.

Former UK Student Pleads Guilty to Assaulting and Using Racial Slurs on a Black Student

Washington, DC

Disclaimer: This article mentions murder and gun violence. Reader discretion is advised. In October 2002, two snipers terrorized America’s capital region as they murdered people across the Washington D.C. area over a span of three weeks. Several movies and documentaries over the years have depicted the Beltway sniper attacks. It has been more than two decades since the tragedy and one of the DC sniper killers continues to sit behind bars.

DC Sniper Killers: Where Are Lee Boyd Malvo & John Allen Muhammad Now?

Ferguson, MO

ABC News

Ten years after Michael Brown Jr., 18, was fatally shot by former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson, no one has been criminally charged for his death.

10 years after Michael Brown's death, his mom still fights for justice

Los Angeles, CA

The “Hate It or Love It” rapper’s sexual assault accuser, Priscilla Rainey, refuses to give up. The Game‘s sexual assault accuser, Priscilla Rainey, refuses to give up. For the past few years, she’s been relentlessly trying to collect the roughly $7 million judgement that was awarded to her in the case. Now, she’s taking it up a notch and coming after his home.

EXCLUSIVE: The Game Must Appear In Court In Order To Keep His Home

Alabama State

The Independent

Alabama executed a man who was convicted for the 1998 murder of a delivery driver who was pulling money out of an ATM machine. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, died by lethal injection on Thursday evening. His last words were: “I love my family.” His time of death was 6.32pm CT.Last week, Alabama agreed not to conduct a post-execution autopsy of Gavin on religious grounds. Gavin is Muslim, and said the autopsy would violate his religious convictions, NBC News reported. He filed a lawsuit ahead of his execution to ensure the state would not conduct the autopsy. The state ultimately agreed...

Alabama executes death row inmate who sued to prevent post-execution autopsy

Kansas State

Saint Louis, MO

CBS News

A Missouri man was freed from prison Tuesday after his murder conviction was overturned after 34 years behind bars, despite the state attorney general's efforts to keep him there. "I never gave up because my family never gave up," Christopher Dunn said from the steps of the downtown St. Louis courthouse. "It's easy to give up in prison when you lose hope. But when the system throws you away, you have to ask yourself if you wanted to just settle for it or fight for it."As time progressed, Dunn said he missed being with family."I had some family members ...

Christopher Dunn freed from prison after murder conviction overturned

Mississippi State

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Pontotoc County, MS

Mississippi News Group

Written with artificial intelligence assistance. According to the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Department, Mississippi, Brittiany Gregory, a 36-year-old woman from Belden, was arrested on the night of August 5, 2024. The Criminal Investigation Division (CID) has charged Gregory with a felony for Possession of a Controlled Substance, specifically methamphetamine.

Belden Woman Arrested on Drug Charges

Missouri State

 It has been 10 years since Michael Brown, 18, was shot and killed by a Missouri police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking protests and riots that brought public attention to the disproportionate number of fatal encounters between police and Black men across the nation. Darren Wilson, a Ferguson police officer, shot and killed Brown after he claimed that the teenager attacked him and tried to grab his pistol. Dorian Johnson, Brown's friend, said that Wilson initiated the conflict by grabbing Brown by his neck through his patrol car window. The confrontation ended when Wilson shot and killed Brown. Witnesses...

Michael Brown was killed 10 years ago by a Missouri police officer. His family never stopped fighting

South Carolina State

Colleton County, SC

Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4) -- Christopher Dunn was officially released from custody on the steps of the Carnahan Courthouse in downtown St. Louis Tuesday evening. It came hours after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a St. Louis judge did not have the authority to order Dunn’s release from prison after vacating his murder conviction.

‘He is coming home’: Christopher Dunn released from prison Tuesday

Scripps News

"We still continue to see so many cases of excessive unconstitutional force," attorney Ben Crump told Scripps News. Ten years after Michael Brown's Ferguson death, advocates are still at work.

Attorney Ben Crump reflects on Michael Brown's life 10 years after his death

Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville Today

A former Jacksonville police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Josue Garriga III, 34, faces a mandatory penalty of 10 years to life in federal prison and must register as a sex offender. A sentencing date has not been set.

Former cop pleads guilty to enticing 17-year-old girl

Booneville, MS

Written with artificial intelligence assistance. According to the Prentiss County Sheriff’s Department, a Booneville man has been charged with multiple counts of molestation following an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of a child.

Man Charged with Child Molestation; Woman Accused of Contributing to Delinquency

New Jersey State

Woodbridge Township, NJ

New Jersey authorities in a statement on Monday announced the arrest of a 51-year-old fugitive who had evaded capture for 15 years after he allegedly participated in a $150,000 steakhouse robbery. U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger in the statement said that in 2014, Kofi Edwards of Trinidad and Tobago was...

Fugitive on FBI’s ‘Most Wanted’ list apprehended after 15 years

Texas State

Huntsville, TX

Latin Times

SEATTLE - Despite several appeals for a stay on his execution, Texas inmate Arthur Lee Burton died today, Aug. 7, at approximately 6:47 p.m. CT by lethal injection at a state prison in Huntsville, about 70 miles north of Houston. He was convicted in the July 29, 1997, rape and murder of Nancy Adleman, a 48-year-old Houston mother of three who had been out exercising.

Arthur Lee Burton is executed in Texas after U.S. Supreme Court denied his application for a stay

Colorado State

David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

California State

Apple Valley News Now

(CNN) — A convicted murderer who has been on California’s death row for 33 years must either be released or retried after a federal judge on Thursday approved the state attorney general’s request to do so because of prosecutorial misconduct in jury selection decades ago.

California inmate on death row for 33 years must either be released or retried due to prosecutorial misconduct

Atlanta, GA

TVShowsAce

Julie Chrisley has officially received a date for her resentencing hearing. Her previous sentence for tax evasion and bank fraud was vacated last month and the Chrisley Knows Best star has been waiting in limbo to figure out what’s next. Here is what has been revealed. When Will Julie...

Judge sets trial date for Louisville's Darnell 'SuperChef' Ferguson

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