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The Orlando Free Fall ride will be torn down following the death of a teenager, it was confirmed Thursday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A pregnant Louisiana woman who was denied an abortion — even though her fetus has a rare and fatal condition — demanded on Friday that Gov. John Bel Edwards and the legislature call a special session to clarify the state’s restrictions on the procedure. Nancy Davis, who is 15 weeks […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville activists put in long hours on phones and in the streets, working tirelessly to call for arrests in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor — but it was mostly two years filled with frustration. This week they saw their fortunes suddenly change, when U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting helped fuel the racial justice protests that rocked the nation in 2020. The charges — most of which stem from […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of the woman who was shot and killed in the parking lot of an Amazon warehouse in Mississippi has reportedly retained civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump. According to a release sent Friday afternoon, the family of Ebony Crockett has retained both Crump and Bob Hilliard of Hilliard […]

The officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya during a traffic stop in Michigan will be charged with second-degree murder.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor filed a second-degree murder charge Thursday against the Michigan police officer who killed Patrick Lyoya, a Black man who was on the ground when he was shot in the back of the head following an intense physical struggle recorded on a bystander’s phone. Kent County prosecutor Chris Becker […]

At an event attended by the Floyd family and the family of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police in Kentucky, Biden spoke of the order as a tangible result in response to nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 against police brutality and racial injustice.

Ten people were killed Saturday and three others were injured in an act of white supremacist terrorism. One was a retired police officer. One was a deacon. Another was the mother of a fire commissioner. All were taken too soon.

After a racially-motivated shooting in Buffalo Saturday left 10 people dead, lawmakers on both sides are weighing in as calls grow for Washington to do something to stop the violence.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Buffalo Police Department Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia and other local officials appeared before the media Monday to provide an update on Saturday’s mass shooting at the Jefferson Avenue Tops supermarket.