2015/04/23 – The Mississippi Department of Education issued the first of what it says will be many charges against Clarksdale Municipal School District educators for cheating on the 2012-13 statewide assessments. At a press conference Thursday in Jackson, state Superintendent Carey Wright …..
2015/04/24 – Newly released dash-cam video has resulted in a lawsuit for one unarmed black man who was shot four times in the back by a Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy in Florida in September 2013, WPTV reports. Dontrell Stephens is seen riding …..
2015/04/23 – John Louis Blalack was scheduled to be sentenced today in the hate crimes investigation stemming from the death of James Craig Anderson. Blalack’s sentencing is now set for April 30. Blalack, 20, pleaded guilty in January to two counts …..
2015/04/24 – A Hattiesburg man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Hattiesburg alleging that police officers broke his neck. According to the lawsuit, police paralyzed Jordan Chase Borgognoni after “placing him in handcuffs by slamming him face first into …..
2015/04/23 – Loretta Lynch won confirmation as the new attorney general Thursday, surviving a deeply partisan vote that reflected Republicans’ anger at President Obama more than worry over Ms. Lynch, who will be the first black woman to hold the top law enforcement …..
