Texas police are searching for a man who shot and killed a woman driving on a busy highway. According to KHOU, the incident happened Wednesday evening as traffic during rush hour was coming to a crawl. Twenty-six-year-old Brittany Daniel was driving on busy Arlington, Texas, Interstate 30 to take a co-worker home when a car,…

Virginia police arrested a mother Tuesday after she reportedly punched an assistant principal, knocking the woman unconscious, during a meeting at her child’s elementary school. According to ABC 13, 43-year-old Tracy Lawrence of Portsmouth went to Lakeview Elementary School demanding to speak to the assistant principal about a matter concerning her child. The news station…

It was supposed to have been a discussion about racial sensitivity during a meeting with members of the community after a group of Phoenix high school students used their T-shirts to spell out the n-word. Shortly after the meeting let out last week, 77-year-old attorney and civil rights leader Don Harris, who is white and…

The Ferguson, Mo., Police Department and the Justice Department have reached a tentative agreement to overhaul training, policies and practices in the wake of a federal investigation after the 2014 fatal police shooting of unarmed teen Michael Brown that uncovered unconstitutional and discriminatory practices. According to the Associated Press, the overhaul comes after seven months…

Quintonio LeGrier, the Chicago teen who was fatally shot by police, called 911 three times the day he was killed, asking for help, and was hung up on by a 911 operator, ABC News reports. According to ABC News, audio of the 19-year-old’s 911 calls made Dec. 26 were released late Monday by Chicago’s Independent…

Two armed robbers picked the wrong barbershop in South Carolina to stick up Friday after a barber and a client, both of whom had concealed carry permits, opened fire on the men, killing one and sending the other back out the door. According to WLTX, the second suspect is still on the loose following the…

In an op-ed for the Washington Post, President Barack Obama announced an end to solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, citing the potential long-term psychological effects. Obama began his piece, which appears in Tuesday’s edition of the Post, by outlining the story of Kalief Browder, a Bronx, N.Y., teen who was arrested for…

A mother of two was followed to her car, shot and killed after she reportedly rebuffed a man’s advances in a Pittsburgh bar. According to WTAE, Janese Talton-Jackson, 29, of Penn Hills, Pa., located just outside Pittsburgh, was leaving the bar around 1:50 a.m. when the suspect followed her to her car, where she was…

Gainesville, Fla., Police Officer Bobby White was dispatched to a Gainesville neighborhood last week after a neighbor called to report that children were playing too loudly. When the officer arrived, he saw several children playing basketball. He joked with the kids about someone calling the police on them and then proceeded to shoot hoops with…