PricewaterhouseCoopers tapped Arlington, Texas, artists Norman Lee and Shane Allbritton to create a portrait of Botham Jean, who had worked at the company in Dallas since his internship there in 2015, after Jean’s death at the hands of then-police officer Amber Guyger. The portrait was unveiled Tuesday night, just hours after a jury found Guyger …
A California woman who died at age 102 last December was reportedly charged an early termination fee from DirecTV for not completing her two-year satellite television contract. KGO reported that following Isabel Albright’s death, her family prepped to sell her home and handle her affairs—including her bills. The late centenarian’s relatives said they were shocked …
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a controversial law passed by Georgia lawmakers that would have banned abortions, except in certain instances, as soon as a fetal heartbeat is detected. AJC reports that District Judge Steve C. Jones ruled to block House Bill 481 which was scheduled to take effect on January 1. The American …
Neither of the students accused of cyberbullying have been charged, and the family worries they may avoid prosecution because the District Attorney has anti-LGBT beliefs.
A Georgia teen is dead after a man said he mistook the boy for a deer while hunting in the Brunswick area. Washington Post reports that 17-year-old Bobby Lane was hunting with 32-year-old Hector Romero when the man shot him with a rifle on Saturday. According to police, Lane was in a “heavy foilage area” …
An investigation into the deadly Conception boat fire early this month could not determine the cause of the blaze that killed 34 people aboard the scuba diving vessel. The Associated Press reports that a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said a probe into the cause of the Labor Day blaze that killed …
The decomposing body was found after students complained of a stench
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has declassified and released the whistleblower complaint the prompted the White House to release a memo of a call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The complaint is at the center of an impeachment inquiry the House of Representatives launched earlier this week. Read …
The U.S. military issued a warning to service members about the threat of so-called “incels” committing a mass shooting at screenings of the upcoming Warner Bros. movie “Joker.” Gizmodo reports that the U.S. Army sent an email to service members on September 18 advising them to seek two escape routes upon arriving to a theater …
A Washington mother has accused a middle school teacher of placing her autistic son’s desk in an unused bathroom so he had a quiet place to learn. Danielle Goodwin wrote in a Facebook post that the Whatcom Middle School teacher had put her 11-year-old son’s desk over a toilet and provided him with a pillow …
Police in Florida arrested a 6-year-old girl for having a tantrum at school, an incident her outraged grandmother says was the result of a medical condition, WKMG-TV reports. On Thursday, Meralyn Kirkland got a call notifying her that a school resource officer had handcuffed and arrested her granddaughter, Kaia Rolle, at Lucious and Emma Nixon …
