Tim Pearce Nooses, racial slurs and “White’s Only” signs added to a hostile work environment in a General Motors plant in Toledo, Ohio, threatening several black employees, CNN reports. Nine GM employees filed a lawsuit against the company in 2018 over the racist incidents and the company’s alleged lackluster response. In April 2018, the Ohio Civil Rights…
Grace Carr A former Texas school teacher who was apprehended after joining the Islamic State claims he joined the group to see what it was all about. “I wanted to go see exactly what the group was about, and what they were doing,” said Houston man and former school teacher Warren Christopher Clark, NBC reported…
Neetu Chandak Police confiscated a handgun from an Ohio kindergarten student after someone saw the child carrying a suspicious object into school. Columbus Division of Police received word of a 6-year-old boy walking with “what appeared to be a heavy object” in his pants, according to the department’s Facebook post Friday. The gun was retrieved from the student…
Neetu Chandak A Wisconsin judge who was allegedly intoxicated with alcohol over the legal limit asked for “the ol’ police courtesy” and was not arrested in December 2018 after being pulled over, according to a police body camera. Police officers described Eric Lundell, 71, as having bloodshot eyes and smelling like alcohol at the time of being…
Evie Fordham A convicted pedophile reportedly confessed to the 1996 murder of child pageant princess JonBenét Ramsey in letters obtained by The Daily Mail published Thursday. Gary Oliva, 54, was using an address 10 blocks away from JonBenét’s home in Boulder, Colorado, when she was killed. He confessed to JonBenét’s slaying in letters he wrote…
Hanna Bogorowski Police investigating a case of possible sex abuse at an Arizona nursing facility where a woman in a vegetative state gave birth in December are asking for DNA samples from male employees, according to the company. Phoenix police obtained search warrants for the samples, Hacienda HealthCare confirmed Tuesday. The development comes a day after the company’s…
Chris White Facebook executives are angry at The New York Times for what they believe is unfair reporting about the company, NBC reported Friday, according to sources. The news comes as the paper is getting dinged for posting advertisements on Facebook telling users how to delete the platform. The NYT ads give Facebook users a…
Grace Carr A New York woman allegedly attempted to poison her estranged husband by spiking his drinks with antifreeze and their son told a third party about the attempt. Long Island resident Renee Burke was charged Thursday with attempted murder, assault, burglary and endangering the welfare of a child, 6abc Action News reported Saturday. A grand jury indicted…
Neetu Chandak Four men in Florida were arrested Monday for allegedly stealing more than $500,000 worth of tequila. Vidal Estrada, Lemuel Escobar, Humberto Ramirez and Alberto Obaya were charged for resisting an officer without violence, grand theft and burglary of an unoccupied conveyance, NBC News reported. Obaya, 46, was also arrested for being in possession of a…
Evie Fordham The Chinese government and some Chinese companies increased censorship in 2018 as the amount of technology available to the Chinese people grew, and some of the phrases that were banned in 2018 are surprising. Messaging app WeChat censored private messages as problematic phrases stopped users’ messages from sending, reported The Guardian. WeChat issued a statement in November…