Updated Thursday, Oct. 1, 8:15 p.m. ET: According to USA Today, the suspected 26-year-old lone gunman was shot and killed by officers at Umpqua Community College. The suspect is believed to be a local man with family in the area, according to a federal law-enforcement official. CNN also reports that seven people were injured; earlier…

A Hartford, Conn., mother was arrested Tuesday after she reportedly left her 4-year-old daughter home alone while she was out performing sexual favors for money. Police have charged Shi’day Nicks, 22, with “risk of injury to a minor, reckless endangerment and leaving a child under 12 unsupervised,” the Hartford Courant reports. According to police documents…

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson took a moment Wednesday, while speaking at the University of New Hampshire, to make a joke about his childhood and the current state of police violence against black people. “Throwing rocks at cars, I really liked that,” Carson said, describing his childhood growing up in Detroit. “Sometimes the police would…

On Sept. 23 the Dixon Correctional Institute in Louisiana released Benjuiel Johnson, but there was only one problem: Johnson, who was sentenced in 2013 to 35 years for manslaughter, wasn’t supposed to be released. According to WAFB, the Louisiana Department of Corrections says that miscommunication and missing paperwork are to blame for the convicted killer’s…

The Atlantic journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates might be having the best year ever. Coates’ second book, Between the World and Me, was released earlier this year to critical acclaim and a firm standing on the New York Times best-seller list. It was announced earlier this month that Coates, when not performing feats akin to a black…

Georgia parents whose sons reportedly drugged, beat and stabbed them earlier this month, in an alleged attempted double murder, went on Good Morning America Monday and insisted that their boys were good kids who had “one bad moment.” “We forgive our boys because that was totally out of character for them. They’re not violent; they’ve…

Virginia police officials are investigating an incident captured on video that appears to show a black man complying with an officer’s demands, yet the officer still uses a Taser on him. The video, which was posted to Facebook, shows a Fairfax County officer, who was not identified, with his Taser out and aimed at the man.…

An Indianapolis teen suspected of shoplifting died in police custody Saturday after complaining of having trouble breathing. According to WISH, a loss-prevention officer inside Burlington Coat Factory stopped Terrell Day, 18, around 1 p.m. The teen took out a handgun, pointed it at the officer and then took off running, according to the Indianapolis Metropolitan…

On Wednesday, a Baltimore County police officer fatally shot an unarmed teen who police claim was “whipping his hand around” as if he had a gun. The man, identified as Keith Harrison McLeod, 19, according to the Baltimore Sun, reportedly tried to use a forged prescription for a narcotic cough syrup at a Nature Care…

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who has been under extreme pressure by the GOP to defund Planned Parenthood, will resign from Congress, CNBC reports. Aides for Boehner told the news channel that he will give up his House seat at the end of October. The news channel notes that Boehner was under intense pressure by…