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The Virginia chapter of the NAACP and a group of students issuing the Shenandoah County School Board, after it voted last month to reinstate the names of two schools that were formerly named for Confederate generals. Virginia NAACP President Rev. Cozy Bailey called the reversal the state’s “commitment to White supremacy and the celebration of a race-based rebellion.” “My belief …

A Kentucky man, who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) group, discussed jihad, martyrdom and shooting at planes, a federal court revealed. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, 34-year-old Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic left the U.S. for Istanbul in 2014 alongside 2 co-conspirators. The trio quickly abandoned their proposed …

Atlanta police have identified the alleged hijacker who they say held a bus driver at gunpoint and held the remaining 17 commuters hostage as he led police on a 15-mile chase through multiple jurisdictions, along with the passenger he shot dead. Joseph Grier, 39, was taken into custody without incident after a chase that spanned multiple jurisdictions and involved multiple …

Sarah Boone is like Goldilocks trying to find the right defense lawyer. Her eighth attorney, Patricia Cashman, was “too snotty,” said the suspected murderer, who allegedly zipped up her boyfriend in a suitcase during what Boone claimed was a game of hide-and-seek. Boone called another lawyer of hers a “dud” and a “buffoon,” Court TV reported. Her seventh lawyer, she …

A federal inmate released from a Louisiana prison last week is back behind bars after prosecutors in New York say police caught him running a black market gun trade through a phone smuggled into his cell. Hayden Espinosa, 24, allegedly moderated a Telegram group named “3D Amendment,” a hub for 3D printing and trading guns and gun modifications, including auto …

The woman charged with fatally stabbing a 3-year-old boy outside a Giant Eagle supermarket in Ohio was released from custody by a judge just days before the attack despite being referred for a mental health evaluation, a report says. The development comes as Bionca Ellis also has claimed to police in Cleveland that she killed a woman in California – …

The body of a missing skier who appeared to have fallen 200 feet in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state has been recovered, park officials said on Tuesday. The skier, a woman whose name was not immediately released, was last heard from on May 18 before she set out for a ski tour above Paradise, the National Park Service …

Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination’s constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches. The vote received support from 61% of the delegates, but it failed to get the required two-thirds supermajority. The action reversed a preliminary …

Oklahoma’s highest court tossed a lawsuit seeking reparations for two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of violence involving race that saw more than 300 Black people killed by a White mob and the destruction of Black Wall Street, a thriving Black district. The nine-member Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit of the last …

Passengers on board a city transit bus in Rhode Island got more than they bargained for and an extra passenger on Monday when a deer crashed through the windshield as the driver calmly continued on the route. The incident, which happened shortly after 3 p.m. on Monday, was captured on video by the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA). It …