Stella/Getty Images (SPRINGFIELD, Mo.) — The mother of a sophomore at Glendale High School in Springfield, Missouri, is speaking out after her daughter was suspended from school for three days after she recorded a video on her cellphone in geometry class of a teacher repeatedly using a racial slur. The […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Colorado man has been arrested after blaming a dog for driving over the speed limit as he swapped seats with the animal when he got pulled over, police say. The incident occurred at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Saturday when police in Springfield, Colorado, […]
Lake County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — A can of beer, a semi-automatic pistol and a dune buggy were factors in a deadly confrontation in Florida on Friday. A Florida man allegedly threw a beer can as a dune buggy passed him, then fatally shot the driver after a confrontation, […]
Mlenny/Getty Images (RALEIGH, N.C.) — The North Carolina Legislature voted Tuesday night to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a 12-week abortion ban. Republican lawmakers passed the bill along party lines last week, which reduced the state’s ban on abortion from 20 weeks to the end of the first trimester, […]
Google Maps Street View (KEENE, Texas) — A man and a 12-year-old boy were charged with murder after the pre-teen allegedly shot and killed a Sonic Drive-In employee in Texas, according to authorities. Police responded to 911 calls Saturday night about a shooting at the fast-food restaurant in the 300 block […]
sukanya sitthikongsak/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nearly half of all vehicle passengers killed on U.S. roads in 2021 were not wearing a seatbelt — the highest number in 10 years, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data released Tuesday. NHTSA said of the 26,325 passenger vehicle occupants killed in traffic […]
RubberBall Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study from the medical journal JAMA Network estimates there were 1.63 million excess deaths among Black Americans between 1999 and 2020. “Excess deaths” is an estimate of how many people died above and beyond what is expected, according to the study. Put another […]
Courtesy of Rasheem Carter’s family (NEW YORK) — The Smith County district attorney, where three sets of remains that belong to Rasheem Carter were found, disputed that a fourth set were part of his remains but said they were animal bones. Carter’s family’s attorney Ben Crump held a press conference on […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — For some people, a parking spot is a nightmare and for others it’s a status symbol tied to their homes and vehicles. Slate reporter Henry Grabar, who wrote the book “Paved Paradise How Parking Explains the World,” however said that that piece of concrete or a […]
Roberto E. Rosales/Getty Images (FARMINGTON, N.M.) — At least 150 rounds were fired by an 18-year-old gunman and responding officers during an apparently random shooting in a neighborhood in northwestern New Mexico on Monday, authorities said. Three people driving through the area were killed shortly after the gunman opened fire at […]
