A man is suing a Michigan bank for racial discrimination after he says the staff refused to deposit settlement checks from another racial discrimination case and called police on him. “Something else was afoot here,” the man’s attorney, Deborah Gordon, told CNN affiliate WXYZ. “And in my opinion, there’s only one thing: banking while black.” […]
A black teenager in Texas said he had been suspended and told he can’t walk in his high school graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks to meet the school district’s dress code. DeAndre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, about 30 miles east of Houston, told NBC affiliate KPRC of Houston […]
Three thieves robbed a Mobile Gas Station at gunpoint around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to Springfield Township police. The video, released by police Wednesday, shows the suspects enter the gas station on Winton Road in Springfield Township carrying guns. They point them at the cashier, who immediately puts his hands in the air. While […]
A Michigan woman says a passenger assaulted her as she slept on a Spirit Airlines morning flight from Atlanta to Detroit. Detroit student Tia Jackson, 22, told CNN she was in the middle seat Tuesday while her friend was sitting by the window and a man they didn’t know had the aisle seat. During the […]
City leaders and Cincinnati Police officials are closely examining how Downtown and Over-the-Rhine bars operate after a fatal shooting that left one person dead and another injured on Thanksgiving night. Officials are taking a closer look at how these bars operate and how to increase public safety in the area moving forward. “Cameo was real, and I […]
George Bredestege spent 28 years with the Cincinnati Police Department, and he has some stories to tell. The one he says he’ll never forget? That would be the day he says he spent on Martin Luther King Jr.’s security detail. Bredestege can’t remember the exact date King was in Cincinnati, though he says it was […]
President Trump used the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday to tweet about what he has personally done for African Americans and brag about his support for gun ownership on what would have been the 91st birthday of the slain civil rights leader. “It was exactly three years ago today, January 20, 2017, that I […]
A 26-year-old man is accused of selling drugs that were mixed with his mother’s ashes. Police in Wisconsin said Austin Schroeder admitted to investigators he cut the drugs using his dead mother’s cremated remains. But he didn’t explain why. Investigators said they received a tip about Schroeder and his girlfriend Kaitlin Geiger, 21, selling drugs […]
A death investigation is underway after a person was found dead inside a car that was fully engulfed in flames Wednesday night. Blue Ash police dispatch said crews were called to the scene around 9:29 p.m. in the 4500 block of Glendale Milford Road. Police said crews on the scene found a car fully engulfed […]
An Ohio lawmaker introduced legislation this week that would allow police to stop and ticket motorists who they see using cell phones and other electronic devices while driving. State Rep. Mary Lightbody (D-Westerville) says her proposed legislation would increase safety on roads by making it a primary offense to use handheld electronic devices while operating […]
Homeless women ordered by a California judge last week to leave a vacant house they illegally occupied in Oakland for two months. The women were evicted before dawn Tuesday by sheriff’s deputies in a case that highlighted the state’s severe housing shortage and growing numbers of homeless people. Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies, some dressed in […]
A popular hotel in Las Vegas is refuting O.J. Simpson’s claim that his reputation took a hit following a media report about him getting kicked out of the venue more than two years ago. Simpson’s lawyer contended in a recent lawsuit against the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas that the former NFL star was defamed when […]