A Grubhub order for breakfast sandwiches and burgers at 5 a.m. is the norm for the Chipper Truck Café in Yonkers, N.Y.; however, a particular note under additional instructions separated one order from the rest. Alice Bermejo of Chipper Truck Cafe said she was surprised when she received the order from the woman requesting for […]
WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner was arrested last month at a Moscow airport after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges. The Russian Customs Service said Saturday that the cartridges were identified as containing oil derived from cannabis, which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. The customs service […]
The gigantic fracas that started when Juwan Howard struck a Wisconsin coach yesterday revealed much about the state of race in America. Why does Whitlock say the Michigan head coach is being held to lower standards than white coaches? Are comparisons to other misbehaving coaches like Bobby Knight and Woody Hayes fair? In what way […]
Funeral services were held Monday for nine children and three adults who died in a Philadelphia fire five days into the new year, the deadliest blaze in the city in more than a century. A funeral procession on the rain-soaked streets of the city Monday morning was followed by services at Temple University’s Liacouras Center, to […]
A Baltimore woman has filed an $8.5 million lawsuit against a funeral home, saying the company secretly conducted two services for her husband and collected additional payments from another woman who said she was also the wife of the deceased man. Demetra Street said an employee at Wylie Funeral Homes took the urn of her husband, Ivan […]
A real estate agent and client were handcuffed and held at gunpoint during a showing of a Wyoming, Michigan, home on Aug. 1. A neighbor called 911 to report a break-in, then men said the incident was due to racial profiling. Client Roy Thorne and relator Eric Brown were a the home with Throne’s 15-year-old […]
‘My Whole Life, I’ve Been Trying to Just Stay Out of Trouble’: Two Illinois Brothers Were Wrongly Arrested, Held 33 Days In Miami Beach Two Illinois brothers now have arrest records after they were in jail for 33 days although no charges were filed against them. Miami Beach police took 20-year-old Carl McNickles and 18-year-old […]
The daughter of late rapper DMX took to the stage over the weekend and held her own on the mic during a show in Texas, where she remixed a few of her father’s songs. X was scheduled to play at Wildcatter Saloon in Katy, Texas in late May, but the bar decided to turn it […]
WINDSOR, Va. — A second lieutenant in the U.S. Army is suing two Virginia police officers over a traffic stop last December during which the officers drew their guns, pointed them at him and used a slang term to suggest he was facing execution before pepper-spraying him and knocking him to the ground. Body camera […]
Romeo Miller says police held him at gunpoint until they realized who he was after he was pulled over near UCLA campus. According to Blavity, Miller talked about his experience during an interview on The Mix. He says the officer approached his car with a weapon drawn. “In UCLA, you get pulled over there, you […]