An African-American employee who claimed she was subject to stress and racial harassment after she complained about a coworker’s “Blue Lives Matter” flag and after she put up an “equity wall” has settled her lawsuit with an Oregon county, her attorney said Friday. As part of the $100,000 agreement, Karimah Guion-Pledgure resigned from her job…… MORE
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New York police detain person as they investigate death of woman found partially decapitated
Detectives have detained a person as they investigate the death of a woman who was found dead and partially decapitated in a Brooklyn apartment, New York police said. The body of Savannah Rivera, 20, was found early Saturday after another woman who was in the apartment flagged an Uber on the street and the driver…… MORE
Kim Kardashian on working with Trump on prison reform: ‘People sitting behind bars do not care who the president is’
Kim Kardashian West is making her case to become a lawyer after working with the White House to help commute the life sentence of a first-time nonviolent drug offender. “I know I got so many times people would say to me, ‘Don’t go to the White House, your career will be over, don’t go there,’”…… MORE
A white driver faces hate crime charges after he allegedly tried to hit an interracial couple with his truck
A Louisiana man has been arrested and booked on charges including committing a hate crime after he allegedly accelerated his truck toward an interracial couple in a suburban New Orleans parking lot, according to the local sheriff’s office. James Descant, who is white, is accused of driving his vehicle toward a black man and a…… MORE
A zookeeper suffered ‘lacerations and punctures’ in a tiger attack at the zoo in Topeka, Kansas
A zookeeper is recovering in the hospital after she was attacked Saturday morning by a tiger at the Topeka, Kansas, zoo. The woman and a 7-year-old male Sumatran tiger named Sanjiv were both in the tiger habitat shortly after the zoo opened when the tiger “essentially tackled our keeper,” Zoo Director Brendan Wiley said at…… MORE
A 5-year-old boy is missing from home, and police don’t think he walked away or was abducted
Police looking for a 5-year-old Illinois boy reported missing from his home say they’re putting special focus on the residence after determining it’s likely he neither was abducted nor walked away. The boy’s parents reported Andrew “AJ” Freund missing Thursday morning, telling police they last saw him around 9 p.m. the evening before, at bedtime,…… MORE
Church apologizes after pastor asks students to spit on him and cut him as part of Easter lesson
An Ohio church is apologizing for an “inappropriate” Easter lesson in which a pastor urged students to spit on him, slap him and cut him with a steak knife. Impact City Church lead pastor Justin Ross and part-time associate pastor Jaddeus Dempsey went on Facebook this week to publicly apologize to students who were part…… MORE
Alabama ex-investigator pleads guilty to beating handcuffed man
A former Tallahassee police investigator pleaded guilty to assaulting a handcuffed 24-year-old man after his arrest. According to the guilty plea, Brandon Smirnoff, 27, was on duty in pursuit of the victim on a four-wheeler. Several officers had placed the man in handcuffs and before placing him into his vehicle, Smirnoff lifted him in the…… MORE
Storms will drench the Northeast before the weather finally warms up
Warm weather is just a few more thunderstorms away. The storm system that made its way through the South and Mid-Atlantic states, killing four people, is now pouring over the Northeast and will move into New England by Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Flood watches are in effect for more than 40 million people…… MORE
Police hope this mystery letter can solve the murder of a teen 45 years ago in Texas
Police are hoping an anonymous letter can help solve the 45-year-old cold case murder of a teenage girl in Texas. In 1974, Carla Walker was a 17-year-old junior in the Fort Worth suburb of Benbrook when she and her high school sweetheart, Rodney McCoy, were attacked in his car in a parking lot. Walker was…… MORE
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