Albany men’s basketball coach Dwayne Killings, athletic director Mark Benson, and the university are being sued by a former walk-on regarding a pregame incident a year ago that involved physical contact and what happened in the aftermath. The lawsuit, first reported by The Daily Gazette of Schenectady, was filed this week in federal court in the Northern […]
An Ohio man has been convicted in the fatal shooting of two teens he found smoking marijuana inside a vehicle in his garage. Victor Santana, 65, of Dayton, Ohio will be sentenced later this month after being convicted of murder and felonious assault on Thursday. Santana shot the two 17-year-olds when he found them inside […]
Never before seen case files, photographs and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi are now open to the public for the first time, 57 years after their deaths. The 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and […]
The killings of Black trans individuals, an epidemic that has continued to skyrocket in recent years, is trending upwards at a disturbing rate in 2021. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), at least 20 of the 28 transgender or gender nonconforming people killed this year are Black or Brown people. Alphonso David, president of the HRC, said […]
Ex-Dallas police officer Bryan Riser has been released after authorities arrested him on March 4th according to ABC 8. Riser was arrested on two counts of capital murder after a man told investigators that he kidnapped and killed two people in 2017. According to a statement from the police department, the 13-year veteran of the force was […]
Born July 15, 1895 Isadore Banks joined the Army at 22-years-old in the last few months of World War I, it isn’t clear if he was deployed overseas. Banks was given an honorable discharge on August 2, 1919. After coming home from the Army in the 1920s according to CNN, he helped bring electricity to […]