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A former Athens city official is accused of stealing more than $1.5 million from the city.
According to Ohio Auditor Keith Faber, Jodi Rickard, who served as executive director of the Athens Metropolitan Housing Authority at the time of the alleged theft, was arrested Monday.
According to reports, Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested after being on the run for 30 years.
Denaro was detained in Palermo, the capital of Sicily, where he was reportedly getting treated for cancer. Reports say the man was using a fake name while visiting the clinic to get chemotherapy. The mafia boss was reportedly captured around 9 am GMT and was taken to a secret location by the Carabinieri. BBC noted over 100 members of the armed forces took part in the arrest of Denaro.
President Joe Biden told Americans to look towards Martin Luther King Jr.'s life for lessons on repairing their divisions, extremism and injustice, as he become the first sitting U.S. president to speak at a Sunday service in the civil rights leader's church in Atlanta.
With Black History Month looming around the corner, we need to educate America on things that took place in our history.
Houston police are searching for a man who fatally shot a robber at a Houston taco shop on Thursday (January 5).
Footage of the robbery was caught on surveillance, and it shows the robber walking in the shop with a black mask and demanding money from customers eating inside. As the robber goes to exit the store, one of the customers pulls out a gun, shooting the robber several times and killing him.
Controversial kickboxer Andrew Tate - and his younger brother Tristan - were handcuffed and led away by Romanian police following a raid on their luxury villa.
Andrew Tate has been arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group.
Chapman pled guilty to killing Lennon and was sentenced in 1981. His lawyers wanted to prove that he was not responsible "by reason of mental disease or defect," but Chapman said that God told him to plead guilty, as reported by The New York Times.
It has been less than 30 days since Netflix released DAHMER-Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. As of Wednesday, September 21st, the critically acclaimed crime series has been viewed over 701.37 hours, making it the second most-watched show in the history of Netflix.
Strictly from an artistic standpoint, the show's creator, Ryan Murphy, and lead actor, Evan Peters, are in line for what could become an onslaught of accolades at next year's Emmy Awards ceremony; and deservingly so. But socially, the racial components that bind the show and the real-life murder case of 1991 together have caused outrage amongst the Black and LGBTQ+ communities as well as angst with the law enforcement officials who were heavily entrenched in Jeffrey Dahmer's legal proceedings.
According to reports, a Rhode Island man was arrested after police seized over 660,000 fake Adderall pills filled with Meth.
Rhode Island reported the seizure as the single largest drug bust of counterfeit Adderall pills in the United States and largest seizure of methamphetamine in New England history.
The CFO of Bed Bath & Beyond has died after plunging from a famous skyscraper in New York City -- this as the company is taking a major financial hit that's affecting thousands.
Gustavo Arnal was confirmed to have been the man who fell from the 18th floor of the Jenga Tower in Manhattan Friday afternoon. Cops haven't released many details about the exact circumstances, but all signs point to a suicide. with no foul play suspected.
Natalie Cofield, of Women’s Business Ownership at the U.S. Small Business Administration, is reportedly stepping down from her post today to return to the private sector.
Bloomberg reported that Madeira Cofield was not only one of the highest-ranking Black women in President Joe Biden’s administration but also the first Black woman to lead the Office of Women’s Business Ownership.
According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a 65-year-old man was paralyzed from the neck down after an Atlanta police officer tased him, causing him to fall and fracture his neck. Since then, the 69-year-old man has been awarded $100 million, noting the cop involved used excessive force.
According to Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control, a new potentially fatal disease called the Langya Henipavirus has emerged in Shandong and the neighboring providence of Henan (in China), and it has the potential to become the next global pandemic. Thus far, 35 people have reportedly come down with the animal-derived Henipavirus virus.
Kimora Simmons is suing her ex-husband and Def Jam founder Russell Simmons for $119 in legal fees, according to Finurah. The lawsuit contends that Lee is seeking $83,000 in attorneys’ fees and an additional $35,000 for court costs stemming from a lawsuit filed by Simmons against his ex-wife and her new husband, investment banker Tim Leissner last year. Simmons had accused the couple of stealing stocks he had ownership of without his permission.
According to reports, an entire police department in North Carolina resigned in protest of a new town manager hired.
Kenly Police Chief Josh Gibson spoke on the matter via Facebook, saying town manager Justine Jones has created a “hostile work environment.” Gibson went on to say he and other co-workers including a key clerk and assistant town manager joined him and five officers in resigning as a form of protest.
Instagram is teaming up with the Brooklyn Museum to debut the 2022 #BlackVisionaries Program to provide $650,000 in grants to Black artists, designers, and small businesses.
This year’s round calls for 10 creators to obtain essential funding. That includes five Visionary Small Business Grants of $100,000 for Black designers. Five Emerging Visionary Grants of $30,000—with the backing of Meta Open Arts—will be for people centered on arts and design based in the United States.
According to reports, billionaire Byron Allen's Allen Media Group is buying the bankrupt Black News Channel for $11 million.
The Hollywood Reporter notes Allen Media Group has acquired “substantially all” of the Black News Channel assets with the purchase to revive the recently defunct media outlet.
People gathered outside the Minneapolis apartment Saturday where 20-year-old Andrew ‘Tekle’ Sundberg was shot and killed by Minneapolis police. Demonstrators joined family members as they demanded more answers from law enforcement.
Denzel Washington and Simone Biles will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. U.S. President Joe Biden named the Oscar-winning actor and Olympic gymnast as two of the 17 individuals who will receive the medal, America’s highest civilian honor, on July 7th at the White House.
According to an Air Force release, the agency is also soliciting HBCU schools with high-research activity ratings to apply. The new research center will focus on tactical autonomy. The Air Force and Department of Defense secured $12 million annually for five years to fund the center’s research, faculty, and students.
“Historically Black Colleges and Universities graduate 30% of Black Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics professionals in the United States, but receive less than .05% of Department of Defense research funding,” said Dr. Victoria Coleman, chief scientist of the Air Force.
