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CNN — The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi has fired multiple deputies after two Black men filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging six White deputies entered their private residence illegally and tortured them for nearly two hours. “Due to recent developments, including findings during our internal investigation, those deputies that were . . […]
Post Date:06/27/2023 11:44 a.m. Every baby deserves a healthy start and a healthy life. A new grant from Ballmer Group will help Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department improve the health of Black infants and parents in Pierce County. We’ll use the 3-year, $1 million grant to pilot a redesigned Black Infant Health (BIH) program and create […]
Practically no one, with the exception of investors, should be happy Santa Cruz County has become the most expensive rental market in the United States. According to Rent Cafe, the average rent is $3,289 for a 707-square-foot apartment. Our small county, with a paucity of high-paying jobs, now has outpaced San Francisco in what it […]
PULASKI, Tenn. — On a busy street in downtown Pulaski sits a “Resurrection of Valor” — honoring a part of history that has been buried beneath the city’s well-known and dubious past with the Ku Klux Klan. “We’ve had a dark history,” said Pastor Ricky Keith, “but the sun shines today.” Saturday marked the dedication […]
Photo by Erin Achenbach Wesley Bell is sworn in as the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney by Judge George W. Draper III i January 2019, after defeating former Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch in an historic upset. Bell is the first Black prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County in its history. Wesley Bell, who shocked the […]
Did you know that the first African-descended individuals who came to Florida arrived as early as the 1500s? The majority were enslaved by Spaniards and involuntarily sailed to Florida as part of exploratory expeditions. It’s at this point that the Tampa Bay History Center’s newest exhibit, “Travails and Triumphs,” begins chronicling the 500-year history of […]
Police killed Philando Castile in July 2016 after pulling him over for driving with a broken taillight. All told, police in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region had pulled Castile over 49 times in the years before killing him, often for minor violations that had nothing to do with keeping roads safe. That fact
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) has called for the McCurtain County sheriff and multiple county officials to resign after leaked audio showed the county leaders discussing killing local reporters and lynching Black people. Sheriff Kevin Clardy, his investigator Alicia Manning, Commissioners Mark Jennings and Robert Beck, commissioners’ secretary Heather Carter and jail administrator Larry Hendrix […]
Published on May 30, 2023 This report is published every weekday, except County holidays. The information in each report covers significant criminal incidents generally from the day before; reports published on Monday cover the preceding Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Some incidents may appear a day or two after the occurrence. This report is not a […]
Liberty County Sheriff’s Department A still from body camera footage released by the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office shows the bus and driver on the side of the highway. Sheriff’s deputies stopped the bus, which was transporting the historically Black university’s women’s lacrosse team, and allegedly searched passengers and their belongings with the help of police […]