Stefun Darts, 24, of Houston, is a full-time college student who holds down a full-time job and runs a small nonprofit. In the second grade, he made a promise to God that he would pay off his grandparents’ Texas home and help them retire. “A promise I would never break,” Darts, 24, wrote on Facebook. “The…

After Duke suffered an embarrassing loss to Oregon, 82-68, Thursday evening, star Blue Devils player Grayson Allen refused to shake hands with Oregon’s Dillon Brooks, and it appears that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski lectured Brooks about a last-second shot once the game was over. Brooks, a sophomore guard, had 22 points, six assists and five…

Well, that went bad fast. On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled Tay, an artificial intelligence “chatbot,” or “chat robot,” that would learn, through social media sites like Twitter, Kik and GroupMe, how to have “normal” conversations. “The more you talk the smarter Tay gets,” Tay’s Twitter profile reads. She was supposed to sound like a typical teenage…

A brawl among a group of Georgia teens left an 18-year-old dead and nine people arrested on murder charges. A fight that began between two teenage girls quickly spiraled into an all-out brawl as several young men wielding bats and pipes began attacking each other. Demajhay Bell, 18, who was believed to have been an…

Junior welterweight world-titleholder Adrien Broner faces felony assault and robbery charges after he allegedly pistol-whipped a man to whom he’d lost a large sum of money while gambling at a Cincinnati bowling alley. Broner, 26, who is scheduled to defend his title April 1, has two active warrants for his arrest related to the Jan.…

A recently widowed woman was in a drive-thru coffee line at Dutch Bros. Coffee in Vancouver, Wash., when she began to fall apart. Workers at the coffee shop gave her coffee for free and then offered to pray for her. A driver witnessed the scene and posted a photo to Facebook that has now gone…

On Wednesday, NFL reporter Howard Balzer tweeted that the NFL reached a deal with the then-St. Louis—now Los Angeles—Rams that if the team drafted openly gay defensive end Michael Sam, it wouldn’t have to appear in the HBO docuseries Hard Knocks. “Sources say NFL agreed not to have Rams on Hard Knocks in 2014 if…

A New York prosecutor has recommended to the court that Peter Liang, the former police officer convicted of the 2014 fatal shooting of an unarmed Akai Gurley inside his apartment building, serve no jail time. Instead, “Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson has recommended a sentence of five years of probation, including six months of home…

A JetBlue flight attendant, who is accused of leaving behind some 70 pounds of cocaine after Transportation Security Administration officers at Los Angeles International Airport pulled her aside for a search after deeming her suspicious while she talked on a cellphone, has surrendered to federal drug agents in New York City, KTLA reports. According to…

Rob Ford, the former Toronto mayor who made international news for his scandal-filled term, which included cellphone video showing him smoking crack, is dead at age 46. Ford’s family released a brief statement, viewed by the newspaper, announcing that the “dedicated man of the people” who “spent his life serving the citizens of Toronto” had…