Lawrence Phillips, former NFL running back and standout Nebraska Cornhusker, who is currently serving a 31-year sentence on domestic violence charges, is now a major suspect in the death of his cell mate. According to ESPN, 37-year-old Damion Soward, who was serving 82 years to life for first-degree murder in California’s Kern Valley State Prison,…

With cellphone video camera running, a customer got the wrath of a Burger King employee in Louisiana after asking about four times whether she could speak with a manager, Live Leak reported. Finally the customer asked for a refund, to which the employee responded, “Baby, you’re about to get it. Just wait. You’re gonna get…

Oklahoma authorities say that the sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot an unarmed man trying to evade arrest was reaching for his Taser but accidentally pulled his firearm, NBC News reports. Body-camera video from the April 2 encounter shows Eric Harris, 44, of Tulsa running as Reserve Deputy Robert Bates, 73, can be heard yelling “Taser!…

Michigan authorities are looking for a 19-year-old woman who reportedly fought with a rival and then hit the victim with her car as she drove away. According to MLive, police have issued an arrest warrant for Jalin Smith-Walker, who was also involved in a separate incident late last year in which she and another woman…

South Carolina authorities have released the police dash-cam video that shows the initial traffic stop and subsequent chase that led to the fatal shooting of Walter Scott, CNN reports.  While the actual shooting is not shown on the footage, the video from Michael Slager’s patrol car, which was released Thursday, shows the traffic stop and…

The video is stunning. A black man appears to be running away from a South Carolina police officer when he is fatally shot in the back. What’s even more difficult to believe is that not only did the officer, Michael Slager, report that the man, Walter Scott, tried to steal his Taser, but the video…

A white South Carolina public-safety officer who was indicted on a misdemeanor charge after a 2014 fatal shooting of a black man in his driveway has been arrested and charged with a felony, according to the Washington Post. The arrest and additional charge against North Augusta Officer Justin Gregory Craven, 25, happened Tuesday, the same…

Walter L. Scott, 50, was a father of four who served in the Coast Guard and had trouble making child support payments, but he was not a violent man, according to his brother Anthony Scott, who spoke with CNN‘s Don Lemon Tuesday. “He was outgoing—loved everybody, [was] very known in the community and got along…

Indiana Pacers forward Chris Copeland was stabbed in the abdomen and his wife slashed after a melee erupted outside a popular New York City club early Wednesday morning. According to the New York Daily News, Copeland, his wife and several other NBA players were partying at the 1 OAK club in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood when…

Cora Masters Barry, wife of the late former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, isn’t happy that the woman who donated a kidney to her husband in 2009 is using his name to promote organ donation, according to the Washington Post City Paper. Masters Barry has reportedly filed a lawsuit asking that Kim Dickens stop using…