Uber recently released a safety report which stated that it received more than 3,800 reports of sexual assault in 2019 and 2020. The rideshare company used five categories to classify its 3,824 cases of sexual assault, ranging from “non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part” to rape. The company handled 650 million trips in 2020, …
A Georgia baby has died after being left inside a hot car in a Madison County parking lot, while the mother reportedly worked. According to Fox Atlanta, police were called at around 1:30 p.m. to the Walgreens Pharmacy off of General Daniel Ave N., where a 12-month-old was found inside their mother’s vehicle. Police say …
NBA star Myles Bridges was booked and released on domestic violence charges on Wednesday — and now the mother of his children has posted photos she says show the results of that violent incident. Mychelle Johnson, who wasn’t named in the initial reports of the incident, posted the photos on Instagram on Thursday, writing that …
An Alabama sheriff’s deputy has died after he and another deputy were shot while trying to arrest a suspect in a stolen vehicle Wednesday afternoon in Bibb County. Bibb County District Attorney Michael Jackson said that Deputy Brad Johnson, 32, died Thursday, WBRC reported. Johnson and Investigator Chris Poole were shot while trying to apprehend …
Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a neighbor of a 19-year-old Utah farmer who has been missing for a month. Dylan Rounds was last heard from at about 7 a.m. on May 28, when he told his grandmother by phone that he was “putting the grain truck in a shelter.” His family reported him missing …
The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday granted a new trial for Atlanta lawyer Claud “Tex” McIver, who was convicted of murder in the shooting death of his wife in 2016. The court ruled unanimously that the jury should have been allowed to consider a lesser charge — involuntary manslaughter, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Justice …
Kierra Coles was 3 months pregnant when she went missing in 2018. Now Chicago police have released a new video of the postal worker. It is reportedly the last known images of the 26-year-old. The video shows Coles walking into her apartment. Hours later, she is seen getting into her car with a man. At …
Last week, a group searching a Mississippi courthouse located an arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham — the white woman whose false assault accusations against Emmett Till led to the 14-year-old’s lynching in 1955 Mississippi. The Mississippi Free Press reported that the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and filmmaker Keith Beauchamp made the discovery at the …
Florida police arrested a 19-year-old man, charging him with the shooting death last week of another 19-year-old he was afraid was going to out him as gay. Daytona Beach police said Telan Mann was found dead on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds on June 23, WESH reported. Jakari Webb has been charged with first …
New York police are searching for a man who may have been with an aspiring pediatric nurse who was found shot in the head on Wednesday in the city. According to the New York Post, 20-year-old Azsia Johnson, who was found shot Wednesday night, was planning to meet with her baby’s father because she “felt …
A Massachusetts man was charged on Tuesday for strangling his girlfriend earlier this month in an ordeal witnessed by the woman’s two young daughters. On June 8, suspect Thadius McGrath’s mother called officers to Samantha Rementer’s apartment in Northampton amid concerns that McGrath, 35, was suicidal. Responding officers knocked on the door and were met …
