Marissa Williams is a real person. She is 19 years old and had lived with her aunt in Fosters, Ala., since April. Then Williams’ aunt learned that she was inviting boys she met online to her house, and their relationship became uneasy. Williams’ aunt told her that she didn’t want her going to parties with…

Christin Howard, a 20-year-old gay man, was taking a photo with a friend at Detroit’s Motor City Pride event on Sunday when some men approached him making negative comments about his long hair and calling him homophobic slurs. Howard told WXYZ-Detroit that the young men started closing in, threatening violence and then they attacked. At…

Before LeBron James would take the court in Game 3 of the NBA finals, Starz was busy pumping James’ upcoming television show on its network. According to the Associated Press, the official trailer of Survivor’s Remorse indicates that the show is about the story of a basketball player who turns pro and makes boatloads of money and…

Kevin Roper, the Wal-Mart truck driver who has been charged in a crash that left one person dead, and comedian Tracy Morgan and three others hospitalized, apparently isn’t sitting back and waiting for his trial to proclaim his innocence. On Tuesday, a series of tweets emerged from an account linked to the 35-year-old who was…

Reality-TV star and onetime hit producer Stevie J has been arrested after racking up what TMZ reports is a “million-dollar child support debt.” According to the gossip site, the Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star is currently in jail after he allegedly stopped paying a court-ordered $8,500 monthly child support payment in 2001. According to a criminal complaint seen…

Around 3 a.m. on Mother’s Day, Shaina Brown, a waitress at a North Carolina Waffle House, thought she had received a blessing after she served a man a Texas bacon patty melt sandwich. After downing the sandwich, the customer told Brown, “I’m going to bless you tonight,” and left her a $1,500 tip on a credit…

Just when it looked like Los Angeles Clippers embattled owner Donald Sterling was set to ride off into the sunset of a forced sale to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Sterling has pulled the reins once again. According to the Associated Press, Sterling will not sign off on a deal to sell the team and…

A criminal complaint claims that Wal-Mart trucker Kevin Roper, the man accused of causing the fatal crash that killed comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair and injured several others including Tracy Morgan, had not slept for 24 hours before the accident, police told the Associated Press. According to the police report viewed by AP, Roper was…

As police searched the apartment of the couple involved in the fatal shooting of two police officers and several civilians in Las Vegas, a stunning theory began to emerge: The couple may have white supremacist ties. According to the Las Vegas Sun, police found swastika symbols in the apartment, and neighbors told the authorities that…

A Philadelphia teen thought she was arriving for a job interview after answering an ad for in-home health care she saw on Craigslist. Instead, police say, she was forced to sign on as an escort, take naked photos and was then raped, the New York Daily News reports. Police told the newspaper that Kevin Cornish,…