Craigory Burch Jr. thought all his dreams had come true after learning that his lottery ticket matched all five numbers in the Fantasy 5 jackpot. Winning the Georgia lottery meant that the 20-year-old forklift operator won close to a half-million dollars, or $434,272 before taxes. One of the first things he did with his winnings…

On Monday around 10 p.m., a Florida mother had a quick decision to make. She had just pulled into a gas station when two armed thieves attempted to steal her car. What the carjackers may not have known is that the woman’s two kids were still in the backseat. As the mother left the car…

Kwame Kilpatrick, the embattled and imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn his 28-year prison sentence, the Associated Press reports. Kilpatrick was found guilty of some two dozen crimes in 2013. His charges included tax evasion and bribery, according to AP. Kilpatrick recently filed the request asking the…

A former North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted of murder after he shot and killed a black teenager using a crossbow just three days after Christmas in 1992 was denied parole. According to the Charlotte Observer, Russell Hinson, 56, shot 16-year-old Felicia Houston through the chest with a razor-tipped arrow as she…

Trayon Christian, the young black man who was arrested in 2013 for “shopping while black” at a Barneys New York store has reached a $45,000 settlement with the city, the New York Daily News reports. According to the Daily News, police stopped Christian on April 27, 2013, after he purchased a $349 reversible black-and-white Salvatore…

Hours before Sarah Palin would endorse Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump for president, charges were filed against her oldest son, Track Palin, for a violent domestic dispute. Palin, 26, was arrested Monday for reportedly punching his girlfriend in the face and threatening to shoot himself with an assault rifle. On Tuesday, Palin was charged with…

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain claims that the “Trump phenomenon” is so powerful that black women are leaving the Democratic Party to support Donald Trump, a current Republican presidential candidate. “And let me tell you a phenomenon that I discovered on my radio show. I get callers who call up and say, ‘I am…

The family of 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen is left with many questions and few answers after the teen was found unresponsive at a Kentucky juvenile-detention center. According to CBS News, McMillen was found the morning of Jan. 11 at the Lincoln Valley Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Ky. But state and local officials have been…

Ishmael Gilbert had only been working at the Glendale, Ind., Target for a few days when an elderly woman approached his checkout line to purchase her items. The 19-year-old rang up her items and then learned that she would be paying for them in coins. “She was all worked up because the line was getting…