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Black violence erupts again in black town where a black teen was shot in a struggle with a gun in a police car
 Violence again erupted in the St. Louis area near the site of the police shooting death of a black teenager, according to local police, despite calls by U.S. President Barack Obama and activists for a measured response. Early on Wednesday, a police officer shot and critically wounded a man who drew a handgun near the site of protests over the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a St. Louis County Police Department officer said. Police responded about an hour after midnight to reports of four or five men with shotguns and wearing ski masks. They encountered multiple suspects running, one of whom pulled a gun on an officer, who fired at him, the county officer said. The man was taken to an area hospital. Shortly after midnight, police fired tear gas into protesters who had confronted a line of officers after a far larger crowd dispersed, St. Louis County Police Department spokesman Brian Schellman said. The incidents followed two nights of violent protests, looting and arrests in Ferguson, the largely black St. Louis suburb where the shooting of Brown took place. Also on Wednesday, a woman was shot in the head in a drive-by shooting blocks from the area where Brown was killed. Ferguson has seen a stark demographic shift in recent decades, going from all white to mostly black. |
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- Nine blacks charged with looting-related felonies in Ferguson
 A total of nine people have been charged with felonies in connection with looting that took place Monday following protest over the shooting of Michael Brown, St. Louis County authorities reported. The following suspects were charged with felony burglary for breaking into Princess Beauty Supply, 6911 West Florissant Road, for the purpose of stealing: • Beonca McGrath, 19, 4400 block of Jennings Station Road, Pine Lawn. She also was charged with misdemeanor stealing for being in possession of a hair weave. • Michael L. Davis, 27, 8300 block of Wabash Avenue, Berkeley. • Robert Lee Stephenson, 28, 9500 block of Guthrie Avenue, Woodson Terrace. • Trey T. Brewer, 18, Dallas, Texas The following were charged with felony burglary for breaking into the Foot Locker at 8023 West Florissant Road, for the purpose of stealing: • Nikko Fiertag, 23, 9300 block of Clarion Drive, Ferguson. He also was charged with misdemeanor stealing for holding a pair of sneakers in his hand when he was arrested. • Andrew Henry, 30, 4100 block of Appleberry Lane, Berkeley. • Steven C. Martin, 27, 8800 block of Maya Lane, Ferguson. • Stephon D. Thompson, 19, 5700 block of Goodfellow Avenue, St. Louis. One man was charged with felony burglary for breaking into the Nu Fashion Beauty Supply, 7525 West Florissant Road: • DeMarco Harris, 38, of the 1200 block of Gimblin, St. Louis. He also was charged with misdemeanor stealing for possessing a hair weave when arrested.
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OCOEE, Fla. — Ocoee police are searching for three people they said knocked an elderly woman to the ground at a busy Publix and took off with her purse. Charlotte Dunaway, 74, is in the hospital with a severe head injury, a broken clavicle and a broken shoulder. “She is very dizzy, very sore, but the main thing is that the neurologist has said the bleeding outside of her brain has stopped,” said Dunaway’s daughter, Scarlett Root. The victim was walking into the Publix on Silver Star Road Friday morning while the store was packed with customers. Surveillance video shows the woman walking into the store with a grocery cart when three men walked out of the store, slammed the woman to the ground and snatched her purse. - (Black-on-white)
PORT WENTWORTH, GA - People in Port Wentworth are still in shock after learning on Wednesday that Torrey Scott has now been charged with raping and killing a soldier's wife. The indictment handed down on Wednesday described how Scott raped and then strangled 33-year-old 
Police in Evansville are investigating the death of a man a witness said was shot following a verbal altercation with a man in a vehicle. Officers responded to a shots fired call near the intersection of Garvin and Walnut streets around 3:23 a.m. Police found a man lying in the street who was not breathing. 
ATLANTA — Police have arrested a teenager in the case of a woman beaten during a carjacking in the parking lot of Phipps Plaza. Atlanta police’s gang unit is working to identify the men seen in a surveillance video attacking a woman walking to her car. They have arrested 17-year-old Steven Spigner. Spigner is charged with four robberies going back to July 5, Lyon said. “In three of the four cases we charged him with, he 
NEW YORK — A homeless man is accused of groping a 
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday for a woman accused of kidnapping a 
In another blow to the “gentle giant” image that some would like to pin on the Ferguson victim Mike Brown, a cache of rap songs he left behind that contain pretty much what you’d expect out of modern rap – lots of boasting about murdering, taking drugs, drinking, and sex with hos. It appears that most of these were uploaded right before the tragic events that took his life. In one of the pictures provided by his family, a jar is shown filled with rap lyrics that he was working on. Here are some samples for you to listen to, but keep in mind there is VERY explicit language in the songs, and the lyrics I post below: 
Columbia County, GA - The man accused of murdering a Columbia County man, 55-year-old 
FLINT, MI – Three men have been arraigned and are in police custody for the slaying of 
FLINT, MI -- Peris Dorsette, 20, has been arraigned on murder and torture charges in the death of
DENVER - A man accused of home invasion that left two people dead 20 years ago is going on trial Tuesday. Andre Jackson was arrested and charged last year with with multiple counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder and sexual assault. Prosecutors said the crime happened back on June 12 in 1994. Three people were found attacked and tortured inside a home at 3234 Larimer Street. Two people died, one survived. Police said the lone survivor told them several intruders entered his home at around 3 a.m. and demanded valuables and attacked them. "This is the kind of horrifying case that cries out to be solved, even twenty years later," District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said in a quote provided by his office. District attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough said the case was reopened as part of Denver's Cold Case Project and DNA evidence linked Andre Jackson, Samuel Sims and Jackie McConnell to the crime. 
ATLANTA -- It was a video that made people cringe when they watched it. A man and woman were beaten after a suspect grabbed the man's cane and beat them with it. And it was all over a parking space. Two weeks after it happened, the suspect and his wife have been arrested, charged in connection with the assault. And that is a big relief to 
A dramatic photo captured the moment on Friday when a Brooklyn mugging victim became a crime fighter — as she busted the punk who allegedly snatched her cellphone and held him in a bear hug for the cops. 
CINCINNATI —A federal appeals court has ruled a lawsuit can go forward against officials in Hamilton County, where a morgue attendant sexually abused three female corpses. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Friday said a jury might conclude the Hamilton County defendants, including the former coroner and morgue director, failed "recklessly and wantonly" to supervise the morgue attendant. They cited evidence that supervisors were aware Kenneth Douglas was drinking and having sex with live women while on the job. Douglas was convicted of gross abuse of a corpse. He's serving a pair of 3-year sentences. During his trial, Douglas testified that he was drunk and high on cocaine when he had intercourse with the bodies of 
FORT LAUDERDALE – Last fall detectives in the Broward Sheriff’s Office Special Victim’s Unit received a phone call from a woman looking for some peace of mind. The woman said that in 1985 she was kidnapped and raped repeatedly by two men. Her attackers were never caught and the woman wondered if advances in technology might lead investigators to an arrest. The woman had another reason for the call. Her daughter had recently turned 16 — the same age the victim was when the attack happened — and it had raised many emotions in her. Detective Michele McCardle went to work. She pieced together the evidence in the case and even found the victim’s rape kit and sent it to BSO’s Crime Lab for testing. McCardle said technicians received a match to a man named Dobie Hunter, a registered sexual offender.
The suspect is described by police as a black man in his 20s, about 5’10” tall with a thin build. He was last seen wearing black shorts and a green shirt with the number 4 on it.
Suspect Willie Stephens, 33, is charged with attempted assault as a hate crime after the alleged attack that left the woman lying out cold in the street. 
LANDOVER, Md. —Officers have arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting a 3-year-old girl in Landover, but the alleged gunman remains at large, Prince George’s County police said. Officers were called to a home in the 6900 block of Forest Terrace around 1:45 p.m. Sunday for a reported shooting. Police said they found the girl in an upstairs bedroom suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. Investigators said Davon Antwan Wallace, 25, and an acquaintance of a resident inside that home got into an argument outside the house that escalated into a physical fight. Police said Wallace left but later returned with a gun, which he then fired several times into the home, hitting the 3-year-old girl. 
The Ferguson police released security camera video after the news conference that showed a confrontation inside the store about 15 minutes before Saturday’s shooting. The images show a man, identified by the police as Brown, who appears to be pushing a store clerk.
ST. LOUIS, MO – The FBI is concerned members of the New Black Panther Party are in Ferguson and advocating violence against police. According to an alert from the St. Louis Division of the FBI the National Chief of Staff of the New Black Panther Party is in Ferguson. Chawn Kweli and other members of the NBPP are in town to respond to the shooting of Michael Brown. This is part of a Facebook status posted by Kweli , “This is the hour all the greats promised. If you die, die like a warrior. I’ll see you on the ground.”
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The man charged with fatally stabbing two brothers at a church food pantry in 2013 is now facing additional charges of rape and sodomy in an unrelated case. Richard Burgin Jr., 50, was charged today with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy for alleged offenses on July 15, 2012, according to court records. The records provide no details, but Burgin's arrest in the May 21, 2013 stabbing deaths of of 
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ristol police have made a second arrest in connection with a murder at a party in January. A man arrested this morning is accused of assaulting someone who was trying to help the victim, then helping the murder suspect flee from police. The victim, 
TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. — A man accused of cramming a
- and then crashes his car as he takes her to hospital. A police chief shot his daughter after mistaking her for an intruder as she attempted to sneak back in the house and then crashed his car while taking her to hospital. Easton McDonald, a deputy in Loudon County, Virginia is thought to have been getting ready for work early on Tuesday morning when he fired at the 16-year-old in the garage. The teenager, who has not been named, is said to have suffered a bullet wound to her torso and remains in hospital at Winchester Medical Center where she is recovering. 
the Chicago-based attorney for 19-year-old Heather Mack, one of the suspects, said he was aware of reports that she could be sentenced to death by firing squad if convicted overseas, but said that punishment was not likely. Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 21, were arrested on Wednesday at a hotel about six miles from the scene of the crime, the upscale St. Regis Bali Resort, where they had been staying with Mack’s 62-year-old mother, 
LEXINGTON, S.C. — A 27-year-old Columbia man was charged Wednesday with sexual assault on two children under the age of 11 after the SC Department of Social Services reported the accusations to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. The incidents involving 
A 13-year-old girl in Alabama was kidnapped, raped and sodomized for three days by at least five men, authorities said. Police in Bessemer say the girl, who didn't know any of her abductors, was 'passed around' by the five men in a variety of locations between July 26 and 28 . She eventually escaped on her own. Detectives are now treating the investigation as a human trafficking case. 
EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - St. Clair County officials have charged an East St. Louis high school security guard with having sex with a minor. The St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department said Thursday that Isaac Turner, 42, was charged August 8th with one count of criminal sexual assault involving a 
PHILADELPHIA – Padge-Victoria Windslowe, the woman? who calls herself the “Black Madam,” accused of murder in the death of a woman who died from a silicone butt-enhancement injection, has lost a pre-trial motion to present the testimony of satisfied customers at trial, scheduled for next year. The transgender defendant, who has pleaded not guilty, is in custody, but presented a cheery demeanor in court. Windslowe is charged in the death of 20-year-old 
New Orleans police said a transgender woman posted a cellphone for sale on Craigslist and robbed a man seeking to make the purchase. The robbery was reported about 6:35 p.m. Monday in the 5100 block of Bundy Road. Police said 25-year-old Brandon Smalls, who now goes by the name Courtney Ashley Smalls, posted a cellphone for sale on Craigslist and met with a man seeking to buy the device. However, when the man removed cash from his pockets, Smalls snatched the cash and fled, police said. 
WACO - A 21-year-old Waco woman has been arrested on charges that she stole more than $1,600 in cash from the restaurant where she worked by faking customer refunds. Shamia Tiffany Wiley has been charged with theft over $1,500, but under $20,000. She was arrested following a store audit at the Pizza Hut on North Valley Mills Dr. in Waco. The arrest affidavit indicates the audit showed Wiley had authorized customer refunds several times, even though she was not authorized to make the refunds. She is accused of pocketing the money from the refunds. The audit showed ten pages of cash refunds, all done while logged in under her name in the store's computer system.
The court date for Keith Randolph Lewis was adjourned until Aug. 19. It was originally scheduled for Friday. The suspect in a brutal hammer attack recorded on video is in Wayne County Jail on a $100,000 bond. The disturbing video shows a parking lot confrontation that quickly escalates into a savage attack. Detroit Police arrested Keith Randolph Lewis for bludgeoning the man seen in the video. Lewis is charged with assault with intent to murder, assault with a deadly weapon and assault with intent to do great bodily harm.
CAMPBELL, Calif. — It began as a night out on the town in downtown Campbell that abruptly ended with gunfire. A 31-year-old man is recovering in the hospital after he and his girlfriend had a chance encounter with an armed robber earlier this month. “I feel lucky,” said shooting victim 
The man brought to face justice by the daughter of an Inwood restaurateur he fatally shot over 25 years ago told a judge Thursday that the killing was an act of “self-defense” and then, in a stunning move, blamed the victim for destroying his life.
"This "youth" in the picture below helps the cause of Nationalism more than a thousand clever essays. I almost feel sorry for Hollywood. All of their years of propaganda can be destroyed with just a few images of reality." - 
TIFTON, GA - A Tift County family is grieving after their relative was shot and killed during a home invasion in Duluth. 37-year-old 
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Two men have been charged nearly one year after a 94-year-old man was carjacked in Daytona Beach. The man had medical complications during the attack and died at the hospital. 
A jury convicted 15-year-old James Glover of aggravated assault and robbery in the beating of 
CADDO PARISH, LA - A Caddo Parish jury rendered a guilty verdict Wednesday afternoon in the case of a Shreveport man charged with a double slaying that happened two years ago almost to the day. But the verdict handed down was for two counts of manslaughter. Word came just after 4 p.m. at the Caddo Parish Court House, about five hours after the jury began deliberations. Roderrick Scott had been charged with two counts of second degree murder in the beating and shooting death of 
LINDEN, N.J. – Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 41-year-old New Jersey man on charges related to the decapitation of chickens in a cemetery in this outlying suburb of New York City. Leonard L. Edwards, Jr., 41, of Wharton faces charges of unlawful possession of a weapon, a fourth degree crime, and animal cruelty, for needlessly killing and mutilating a live animal, said Linden police Captain James Sarnicki. Sarnicki said that at 4 p.m. on July 31, Edwards was seen using several machetes to decapitate and kill several chickens in the Rosehill Cemetery on Routes 1 and 9. He then placed the dead animals by some gravesites and smeared blood on the headstones, before fleeing the cemetery in his car. Investigators believe the incident was some type of religious or cultural ritual.
As Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies approached an area of unincorporated Palm Beach Gardens where someone reported a sexual battery, Joel Jones flagged them down. Before they could even get his name, he began shouting at them: “I assaulted her,” he yelled. “Take me to jail!” According to the arrest report, the woman said she saw Jones call 911 on himself as she got away. Jones, 47, faces charges of sexual battery, false imprisonment and aggravated assault with deadly weapon. Jones remains in the Palm Beach County jail without bail, according to the sheriff’s booking blotter website.
MEMPHIS, TN - - Police released a composite sketch Wednesday of a man wanted for a rape at The Abington apartments. A 22-year-old mother told investigators she had just dropped her fiance off at work and returned to their apartment when a man with a gun rushed her around 5:30 a.m. The victim told him she only had a little money in her purse. That is when he reportedly sexually assaulted her. She was able to run out the back door to escape. "He just was saying don't scream or I'll shoot you in the head. Don't scream." "I was just praying that I would make it through it. I told him I have children. They weren't with me so I just wanted to make it through for my children."
After deliberating for nearly three hours, a state jury Wednesday (Aug. 13) convicted a New Orleans man on rape charges for sexually assaulting his girlfriend two years ago. Tyrone Jones, 32, was convicted on one count each of simple rape and second-degree battery. Jones was charged with second-degree kidnapping and aggravated rape after his then-girlfriend was attacked inside his Algiers home in July 2012. Earlier this year, prosecutors reduced the charges to the lesser crimes of aggravated second-degree battery and forcible rape.
A Hollygrove man is accused of masturbating in front of three children. New Orleans police arrested Mikal Buie, 37, on four counts of indecent behavior with juveniles. Police say three children, boys and girls whose ages were not listed in an arrest report, reported seeing Buie masturbate on different dates in late June. Police say the incidents occurred in a Central City home on Josephine Street. One child said she was asleep on the floor of the living room when Buie walked into the room "with his hands inside of his gym shorts moving in a back and forth manner," a detective wrote in an arrest report. Buie stopped when the caregiver of the children entered the room, the report said. The day before, Buie masturbated while watching a girl, another child told police.
Philadelphia Police are looking to identify a male accused of fondling himself outside of a Recreational Center occupied by several juveniles. Police say a male reported that on July 15, around 1:45 p.m., he saw a man standing outside of the Cecil B. Moore Recreational Center fondling himself while peering over the wall into the pool area which was occupied by several adolescents. The suspect is described as a black male, around 40-years-old, 5’7” and 110 pounds. He has gray hair, glasses and was wearing a brown shirt and dark pants.
NEW YORK — Police on Wednesday were searching for a suspect who grabbed a 63-year-old woman’s buttocks and exposed himself to her in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn last week. Around 8:25 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, the man followed the woman near Grant and Atlantic avenues in Brooklyn, grabbed her buttocks, and flashed himself to her, police said. The suspect then ran off. The suspect was described as a black male between 20 and 25, weighing about 140 to 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, black shorts with a red stripe down the sides, and white striped sneakers.
Dover police are investigating a harassment complaint filed against Delaware's state treasurer by his former deputy, authorities said Wednesday. The complaint was filed last week, a month after former deputy treasurer 
Delaware's first-term state treasurer popped the question Thursday to his girlfriend, Megan Lallier. He announced the engagement on his Facebook page. "So happy the love of my life, Megan, said "Yes" last night!" Flowers wrote. "Special thank you to the staff of Indulgence Jewelers, Winston Flowers & Meritage for making it an unforgettable evening." Flowers, 39, of Middletown, won his first term in 2010, beating Republican Colin Bonini to become the first African American elected to statewide office in Delaware. 
Phillip Willis was taken into custody after he admitted himself to the Ancora Psychiatric Hospital in Winslow Township, according to police 
LONG BRANCH, NJ -- A New Jersey man has been charged with the murder of his cousin and her foster daughter, and police say child pornography sparked the deadly confrontation. Monmouth County authorities have alleged that Brian Farmer, 58, is responsible for the strangulation deaths of 62-year-old
Rape charges have been filed against the brother of 
PORTLAND, Ore. – Police arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with a rape and a robbery in the Overlook neighborhood earlier this month. Police tracked 
GRAND RAPIDS – A 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing a 9-year-old boy on a western Michigan playground told authorities he wanted to go to jail and did not know the victim, according to a court document filed Friday. The delinquency petition filed in Kent County Circuit Court said 12-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn told investigators he’s “bad and always does stupid things.” He added he thought he’d be killed “for doing something like this,” according to The Grand Rapids Press. Lawhorn said he didn’t know how many times he stabbed 
CATOOSA COUNTY, GA - UPDATE: The Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office has a suspect in custody from the robbery of a handicapped woman at a Georgia ATM earlier this month. Allen Green is facing multiple charges, including armed robbery, hijacking a motor vehicle, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Police say Green followed a woman out of a Fort Oglethorpe bank after she had just used the ATM there. The victim told police the suspect bumped the rear of her vehicle, causing her to pull over and the suspect produced a gun and robbed her. The victim said she suffers from Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, which severely disables her ability to walk. Family members tell us she usually can’t travel more than a few steps without her wheelchair. 
NEW YORK – Police Tuesday night were looking for two men who they say attacked
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Des Moines police have arrested 
CLEARWATER, FL - Clearwater Police have arrested a teen for murder in the mysterious death of 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Two men have been indicted in connection with a fatal shooting on Ellington Parkway back in March. Officials with the Metro Nashville Police Department said Barry Eugene Moore, 27, and Antonio L. Porter, 21, have been accused of shooting and killing 21-year-old 