ABC News (CHICAGO) — A 13-year-old boy was found shot dead in Indiana this week after an apparent dispute on social media, according to his mother. The boy, identified by the Lake County Coroner’s Office as Orie Dodson, was found dead Wednesday in Gary, Indiana, a suburb of Chicago, after […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — All five former Memphis police officers accused of murder in connection to the traffic stop beating of Tyre Nichols entered not guilty pleas on Friday morning. Nichols’ parents and their attorney, Ben Crump, were in the courtroom. The former officers are set to return […]
Rebecca Kiger for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said the agency “is working vigorously to understand what caused” the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. In a rare series of posts on Twitter on Thursday evening, NTSB […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — With crisis after crisis plaguing the water infrastructure in Jackson, Mississippi, the city government has, for months, included a message on its website’s water information page explaining where people can send private donation checks if they want to help. Yet despite issues ranging from […]
Wong Chung Ho/Getty Images (EAST LANSING, Mich.) — Mark Totten is a leading federal prosecutor with longstanding ties to Michigan State University — and when he learned this week that the campus was the site of another mass shooting, he immediately got to work. “I spent a decade on the […]
amphotora/Getty Images (SHREVEPORT, La.) — A Louisiana police officer was charged Thursday in connection with the shooting death of an unarmed man earlier this month, police said. Shreveport Police Officer Alexander Tyler, 23, was arrested after a review of body camera footage and “other relevant evidence” by the Louisiana State […]
kali9/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Police are investigating after two Jewish men were reportedly shot after leaving religious services in Los Angeles within 24 hours. The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement Thursday night that it believes the suspect, who is now in custody, “is responsible for the […]
FILE — mukunda de/Getty Images (SILVER CITY, N.M.) — Feral cows roaming wild around southwest New Mexico will be gunned down by shooters in helicopters beginning next week, according to a plan approved by U.S. officials. About 150 feral cattle, which authorities say “are not domesticated animals and pose a […]
WTVD (RALEIGH, N.C.) — The family of Darryl Tyree Williams calls for manslaughter charges against the six Raleigh police officers involved in the fatal encounter. Williams died after being shocked several times by a Taser used by North Carolina officers on January 17th. William’s mother, Sonya Williams, called for accountability, […]
Black Lawyers for Justice (BRANDON, Miss.) — The shooting of a Black man in Mississippi during a drug raid is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. The Justice Department was joined by the FBI and federal prosecutors in making the announcement Wednesday. […]
