Baltimore police are looking for the person who fatally stabbed a Morgan State student after a basketball game Monday night. According to police, the altercation began at a university basketball game against Coppin State University. Officials believe that the incident at the game led to an off-campus fight between some 15-20 students that left 20-year-old…

Dontrell Stephens was riding his bike back to a friend’s house in a Florida neighborhood in 2013 when an officer stopped him. The officer claimed that Stephens rode into traffic. Stephens dropped his bike, and within seconds the officer opened fire, paralyzing the 22-year-old, who police would later admit was not armed. On Wednesday, a…

On Wednesday, minutes before the official deadline to enter Baltimore’s already crowded mayoral race, DeRay Mckesson, a prominent activist and social media juggernaut, filed paperwork to run for the office. According to the Baltimore Sun, among the candidates vying for the position are 13 Democrats, five Republicans, three Green Party members and a Libertarian. The…

A British woman who was arrested and assaulted by an officer in 2012 after being accused of shoplifting has died in a prison cell in a separate incident. According to The Independent, on Jan. 11, while in jail for reasons authorities have not confirmed, 32-year-old Sarah Reed was found “‘unresponsive” at HMP Holloway, a prison…

Tennessee police officers used a Taser on and arrested a middle school cleaning woman after mistaking her for a robber, authorities said. According to the Chattanooga Times Free-Press, on Jan. 11, officers were patrolling the area around Ooltewah Middle School in Collegedale, Tenn., when they saw an open door. Police said they went inside, where they encountered 36-year-old…

The journalism world suffered a great loss Sunday when Michael J. Feeney, a veteran journalist who was set to start his dream job as an entertainment reporter at CNN.com, died of complications from a staph infection in his kidneys. He was 32. “Mike did everything to help everyone,” his mother, Reba Willis, told the New…

The U.S. Department of Justice is set to open an investigation into the San Francisco Police Department after disturbing video captured the shooting of a young black man and, in a separate incident, some officers reportedly shared homophobic and racist text messages. According to the Los Angeles Times, details of the review are expected to…

A St. Augustine, Fla., Burger King worker was arrested Wednesday after he reportedly set his uniform on fire after learning he had been let go. Timothy Alejandro Ortiz, 24, was supposed to return his uniform to his manager, but he allegedly stormed out of the store with his shirt and hat in hand and then,…

A Chicago man was found guilty Saturday of first-degree murder for giving a gun to his niece to handle a Facebook dispute. According to the Chicago Tribune, 27-year-old Donnell Flora was convicted over an April 2014 incident in which he gave his then-14-year-old niece a .38-caliber revolver, which prosecutors say the teen then carried to…

In January 2015, while cries from residents of Flint, Mich., that something was wrong with the tap water went ignored, state officials made provisions to have watercoolers installed at the State Office Building in Flint. It would be some eight months before city officials would admit that the tap water was unsafe to use, according…