The civil court portion of the case involving the fatal police shooting of Walter Scott moves forward. Scott’s family filed documents asking a judge to approve its wrongful death settlement with North Charleston, S.C., CBS News reports. City officials agreed in October to settle the case for $6.5 million. Back in April, Officer Michael Slager,…

Family, friends and classmates are mourning a high school athlete this weekend who sacrificed his life to save three girls. Zaevion Dobson, 15, died during a shooting spree in Knoxville, Tenn., NBC News reports. The mayhem began Thursday night when shooters opened fire at a house, injuring Lisa Perry, 46, who was hit several times…

Donald Trump slammed Chief Justice John Roberts and named Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas as his favorite judge on the high court, the Associated Press reports. “Justice Roberts really let us [conservatives] down. What he did with Obamacare was disgraceful, and I think he did that because he wanted to be popular inside the…

Authorities said Nicholas Robertson was armed and turning toward sheriff’s deputies when they fired a hail of bullets, killing him in Lynwood, Calif., Saturday. But a mobile phone video appears to show him walking away, KTLA reports. According to the official account, the deputies were responding to calls about a man firing a gun. They…

The South Boston, Va., NAACP held its first march Saturday to demand justice for a black man who died in 2013 while in police custody, the Associated Press reports. A video released last month shows three officers shooting stun guns multiple times to arrest a handcuffed Linwood Lambert Jr., 46, as he runs toward a hospital…

A lawyer representing Mario Woods’ family showed a new video of Woods’ fatal police shooting and announced that he has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On Dec. 2, at least five San Francisco police officers fired at Woods, who was a suspect in a stabbing. Woods, 26, allegedly wielded…

President Barack Obama will speak to the nation from the Oval Office Sunday night about the San Bernardino, Calif., attack and the war against the Islamic State group, The Hill reports. The White House said, “He will reiterate his firm conviction that ISIL [also known as ISIS or the Islamic State] will be destroyed and…

A new report says that Tamir Rice’s hands were in his pocket and not reaching for his toy gun when a Cleveland police officer fatally shot him last year, the Associated Press reports. This video analysis, released Friday by the attorneys for Tamir’s family, disputes a statement by the officers involved in the shooting, which…

Fresh uproar may be on the horizon in Chicago. Amid calls for greater transparency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said yesterday that the city will no longer oppose the release of a police dashboard video that reportedly shows an officer fatally shooting a black man in the back, the Chicago Tribune reports. Authorities said that Police…