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#LivingWhileBlack raises awareness of racial profiling in the wake of high-profile incidents

#LivingWhileBlack raises awareness of racial profiling in the wake of high-profile incidents

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — #LivingWhileBlack is the latest hashtag to raise awareness of racial profiling incidents that have spawned headlines and even outrage on social media. The hashtag, though not new, has grown in popularity on Twitter recently after a Yale graduate student, Lolade Siyonbola, shared a video of her interaction […]

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Black man choked, slammed against wall by officer at Waffle House, video shows

Black man choked, slammed against wall by officer at Waffle House, video shows

iStock/Thinkstock(WARSAW, N.C.) — Waffle House is facing yet another controversy after video surfaced showing a black man being choked, dropped to the ground and arrested last weekend in Warsaw, North Carolina. Anthony Wall, 22, had just taken his little sister to her prom when they walked into a Waffle House […]

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Navy volleyball players save two teenage girls from drowning off Florida coast

Navy volleyball players save two teenage girls from drowning off Florida coast

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Four U.S. Navy sailors were enjoying a Florida beach with their families last weekend when cries for help led them to save the lives of two teenage women drowning off the coast. Chief Petty Officer Aniahau Desha, Seaman Gaston Yescas, Petty Officer 1st Class Sheldon Lucius, and […]

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Accused stalker who allegedly texted man 65K times says she refused to give up on ‘soul mate’

Accused stalker who allegedly texted man 65K times says she refused to give up on ‘soul mate’

iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) — A woman facing stalking and trespassing charges amid accusations of sending a man 65,000 texts and breaking into his house said that she thought he was her “soul mate.” “I was looking for my healing angel … the psychic I met told me would meet a healing angel,” […]

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Woman convicted of murder for running over her cheating husband in 2002 released from prison

Woman convicted of murder for running over her cheating husband in 2002 released from prison

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Texas dentist who was notoriously convicted of running over her cheating husband has been released from prison after 15 years. On July 24, 2002, Clara Harris, 60, killed her husband, 44-year-old orthodontist David Harris, after she found him with his alleged mistress, Gail Bridges, authorities said. […]

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Police stumble on three men making off with mailbox

Police stumble on three men making off with mailbox

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Perhaps they should have stuck to email. New York police stumbled on a trio of men trying to make off with a mailbox early Friday morning. It was just after 3 a.m. when officers said they noticed three men carrying the mailbox toward a minivan and cramming […]

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Ohio sheriff’s employee overdoses on the job, assaults first responder

Ohio sheriff’s employee overdoses on the job, assaults first responder

iStock/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND) — An Ohio sheriff’s department employee overdosed while on the job several weeks ago and grappled with first responders after they had revived him, police said. This week, the Brooklyn Police Department provided ABC affiliate WEWS with footage from police body cameras showing the March 23 incident. Police found […]

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Officer fired over video of him allegedly choking former NFL player Desmond Marrow during arrest

Officer fired over video of him allegedly choking former NFL player Desmond Marrow during arrest

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Georgia police officer has been fired after an investigation into the use of force on former NFL Football player Desmond Marrow during his arrest. On Dec. 2, police were called to a shopping center parking lot in McDonough, Georgia in response to an alleged road-rage incident […]

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Sara Haines talks with mom who went viral with video on realities of motherhood

Sara Haines talks with mom who went viral with video on realities of motherhood

ABC (NEW YORK) — A mom whose video on the less glamorous realities of motherhood has been viewed nearly five million times said social media contributes to an unrealistic view that other families are perfect. Sarah Van Sickle told “The View” co-host Sara Haines that she recorded the now-viral video […]

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Doorman vows to fight nephew in court over $4.2 million left to him in late man’s handwritten will

Doorman vows to fight nephew in court over $4.2 million left to him in late man’s handwritten will

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Manhattan doorman has vowed to continue fighting in court over a dead tenant’s will that reportedly left him millions. Stephen Sullivan Evans, 80, died in September, never having married or had children, and his handwritten will left his $4.2 million apartment to the longtime doorman at […]

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