Jada Pinkett Smith is heading back to the small screen, with Fox ordering a series that plans to dive into the early detective days of Batman police commissioner James Gordon, the Associated Press reports. The show, slated to be called Gotham, doesn’t have an air date but producer Warner Bros. Television told AP that it…

Melody Burrell was at an Illinois basketball tournament with her son over the weekend when a 16-year-old player made a shot and then collapsed. Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory High School player Jermaine Cullum wasn’t breathing, according to reports. Burrell, a nurse who had been watching a different game at the tournament with her 15-year-old…

Donald Sterling isn’t going quietly into the night, with TMZ Sports reporting that the embattled owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, caught on tape telling a female friend not to bring black players to the games, is looking for lawyers to fight the NBA’s lifetime ban and possible forced sale of the team. According to…

Oregon State fired head coach and Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson, Sunday night, according to Sports Illustrated. In six seasons with the Beavers, Robinson had a losing 95-104 record, with no NCAA tournament appearances. According to SI, the big surprise in the firing of the president’s brother-in-law is not that he was let go but…

A new study from the Center for American Progress and the National Education Association shows that the racial and ethnic backgrounds of U.S. teachers don’t reflect the diversity of their students. According to the study, nearly half of students who attend public schools are members of minority groups, while less than 1 in 5 of…

Loved ones gathered around a sign in 8-year-old Martin Cobb’s yard not far from the church he and his family attended in Richmond, Va. “Martin: A real hero lived, fought and died here,” the sign read. Martin died Thursday trying to fight off his 12-year-old sister’s attacker, authorities say. On Saturday a 16-year-old boy, whose…

Darius Adams, 17, was behaving aggressively when he arrived at his McIntosh, Ala., home around 2 a.m. Friday, his father told authorities. And the dad says he only meant to scare his son when he went to grab his gun. But the gun went off, hitting the McIntosh High School football player in the stomach…

A Florida man who doused his girlfriend’s 3-month-old puppy with hot sauce will be spending a year in prison, followed by 18 months’ probation, the Herald-Tribune reports. Police claim that Ephrian Myles, 47, became angry at Gizmo, his girlfriend’s dachshund-chihuahua mix, and reportedly dumped hot sauce on the puppy. The spicy condiment got in the…

Only two days after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver brought the hammer down on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for racist remarks captured during a taped conversation that was leaked to TMZ, NBA owners held their first meeting in a bid to end Sterling’s ownership of the team. The league’s 10-member advisory/finance committee held a…

On Halloween night 2012, police pulled over a Range Rover moving through the streets of North Philadelphia. Inside the vehicle were Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill and three members of his entourage—an Atlantic Records executive, an off-duty police officer and the rapper’s cousin—all of whom were headed to catch a flight to Atlanta to launch Mill’s…