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Why we must end school integration - Three black boys attack 13-year-old white boy on school bus - beat, stomped, broke arm 
A scared boy was about to exit the school bus when he was viciously attacked by three other classmates. The bus driver called for help but some argue didn't do enough to stop the incident. He is being investigated. The youths have already been charged. Cited reason for the attack? The victim did not want to buy drugs from the attackers and instead turned them into the school. Why were they allowed to ride the same school bus home? Why weren't they arrested at school for drug possession?
Three students are accused of beating a younger student aboard a Pinellas County school bus. Officials said the bus driver from Lealman Intermediate School called for help when three students "ganged up" on a 13-year-old student, kicking and punching the victim. The driver stopped the bus near 20th Avenue South and 51st Street. Police said the suspects used the emergency exit of the bus to escape. Joshua Reddin, Julian McKnight, and Lloyd Khemradj, all 15 years old, were arrested a short time later. An investigation revealed one of the suspects had tried to sell drugs to the victim in a school bathroom. The victim notified officials at the school. Later that day, the suspects and victim rode the same school bus home. Officials said the victim tried to crawl under a seat on the bus as the suspects punched and kicked the victim for roughly a minute, police said. The victim suffered a fractured arm. Police say Joshua Reddin also took the victim's money after the beating. All three teens are charged with aggravated battery. Reddin is also charged with unarmed robbery. All three have been released from police custody. - (Black-on-white) |
A man has died after being viciously beaten and stomped on at a homeless shelter for refusing to hand over 75 cents to his attacker. Joseph Meyers, 53, was taken to hospital on Saturday following the attack at the Toledo Gospel Rescue Mission in Toledo, Ohio. Meyers, who struggled with alcohol and drug addiction for most of his life, was pronounced dead on Wednesday evening. Perpetrator Houston Hart, 49, was arrested at the scene and has remained in the Lucas County jail since. He is charged with felonious assault. - (Black-on-white)
A 47-year-old Macon man was arrested Thursday on allegations brought forward in 2012 by a then-17-year-old girl who maintained he raped her multiple times during a multi-year period. L.J. Roquemore, of Swan Drive, is charged with rape, statutory rape and child molestation, according to arrest warrants released Friday. Police responded to a fight on Feb. 21, 2012, and spoke with the girl, who told officers the rapes began in 2007. She said she’d been raped five times in the two or three months before her talking with police, according to the report. Roquemore was being held at the Bibb County jail without bond. 
LAS VEGAS -- Metro Police are looking for more victims of a man they arrested on charges of sexual assault. Police arrested 29-year-old Johnny Johnson after a woman called to report she had been robbed and sexually assaulted. According to the victim, on July 30, Johnson robbed and assaulted her after identifying himself as an undercover officer. Detectives are also investigating a related incident that happened July 13 at a high-rise residential building near the 4500 block of Dean Martin Drive. Johnson is facing several charges, including burglary, first degree kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery and oppression under color of office with threat of force.
A Las Vegas man is behind bars after being arrested for allegedly stabbing four people. Lee Sanford, 53, began randomly stabbing people near the intersection of Harmon Avenue and Koval Lane around 11 p.m. Saturday, Metro Police said. A short while later, Sanford was arrested inside a fast food restaurant near Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon Avenue. Police said, Sanford was holding a large knife and followed officer's instructions to drop the weapon. Sanford, who is at the Clark County Detention Center, is facing four counts of battery with a deadly weapon. 
McALESTER, Oklahoma - A man faces a charge of cruelty to animals after being accused of hanging his family's dog. Court records state McAlester Police were sent to a home on East Washington on July 31 after getting a call about a dog hanging by a leash on a clothes line. Officers found the dead dog and took a report from Thompson Brown Jr.'s nephew. Police said Brown told them the dog had bitten him. According to an affidavit, police asked Brown "if he thought hanging the dog was the best option available to him and he said 'I suppose so.'" Police arrested Thompson Brown Jr. and took him to the Pittsburg County jail. Police indicate Brown may have a mental health issue.
Police in Wellington have a warrant to arrest 
Orlando police are offering a $1,000 reward for anyone who can provide information that leads to the arrest of a man suspected of attempting to rape a woman. The man is said to be in his mid to late 30s with a short haircut. He weighs about 150 pound and is about 5-foot 9 to 6 feet tall with brown eyes.
The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force is looking for a Toledo man who, over six years, allegedly raped a young girl, giving her candy and dollar bills to “buy her silence,” officials said. Wanted for two counts each of rape and gross sexual imposition is Joel Coleman, 31, whose listed address is 823 N. Michigan St. The suspect was indicted by the Lucas County grand jury Aug. 1. Marshals will go anywhere in the country to arrest the suspect. Court records allege that the sexual assaults began when the
DALLAS/DESOTO - Four people were killed and four others were wounded Thursday night in two separate but related shootings not far apart in Dallas and DeSoto, police said. The first shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. at a home in Dallas. Authorities said that two people there were shot and killed, and two more people were wounded. The gunman then moved about seven miles to a home in DeSoto. There, he tossed some type of explosive device into the home, police said, before opening fire again. Another two people were killed and two others wounded. Victims that survived the Dallas shooting were taken to Parkland Hospital and Methodist Dallas Medical Center. Their current conditions are not known. The conditions of the two surviving DeSoto victims — an 11-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy — are also not known. They were transported to Children’s Medical Center of Dallas. The suspect has been identified as Erbie Bowser, a former Dallas Mavericks ManiAACs dancer. Bowser was arrested at the scene in DeSoto. Charges against the suspect are still pending. Family members said that Bowser was looking for his 
LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. - A 31-year-old man killed a tow truck driver, then shot at a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who arrived at a Lauderdale Lakes apartment complex to investigate, police said Wednesday. Police charged Triston Johnson with murder and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. A deputy shot Johnson, who was hospitalized at Broward General Medical Center after the shooting. He was released Wednesday. The tow truck driver,
JOHNSTOWN — The man who just three years ago was voted homecoming king at Greater Johnstown High School is now wanted in the stabbing death of his live-in girlfriend. Demetrius “Mete” Gibson, 21, is being sought by Johnstown police after they say he stabbed
JOHNSTOWN — A local manhunt was underway late into the night Tuesday for a Tire Hill man accused of stabbing his girlfriend with a survival knife and then leaving her to die at a Moxham car wash. Police have issued a warrant for 21-year-old Demetrius Darnel Gibson on homicide and other counts. They say he stabbed 
Brandie Redell admits she was shoplifting at a Von Maur store in Davenport, Iowa, back in February, and putting clothes inside her 1-year-old daughter’s stroller. While store security has Redell turn over the things she’s taken, two Davenport police officers walk in. Redell calls her boyfriend telling him to pick up their daughter. When one of the officer’s hears Redell’s boyfriend’s name, he tells Redell, “This is going to get ugly, real quick.” Redell’s boyfriend, James Gibson, is a community activist who had done some sensitivity training with the department when it comes to race and officers dealing with the public. Asked if she thought the race of her boyfriend has something to do with the incident, Redell said, “Yes I do, because I don’t think the police were really thrilled that a white woman was calling a black man for help, especially one that they already weren’t fond of.”
RALEIGH — Police on Thursday charged a 20-year-old man from Moyock with statutory rape, sexual exploitation of a minor and other counts for what they said was having sex with a 
ANTIOCH, Calif. — A registered sex offender was behind bars again Wednesday after allegedly kidnapping a woman from a K-Mart parking lot in Antioch and sexually assaulting her days before, police said. The woman told police that around 2:30 p.m. Monday, a man approached her in the parking lot of the K-Mart at 3625 E. 18th St. and brandished a gun. He forced the woman into a car and had her drive to several spots throughout Antioch where he sexually assaulted her, police said. An investigation led police to 43-year-old Kevin Harvey, a registered sex offender who lives in Antioch.
A San Mateo County jury took little time Wednesday afternoon before rendering Maurice Banks guilty of five criminal counts related to a December 2010 beating and attempted sexual assault of a young woman in a Redwood City motel room. Prosecutors said the victim had rented the room at the motel to quietly study for upcoming final exams. Prosecutors allege that Banks broke into the woman's room through a small window early the morning of Dec. 4, 2010, and severely beat her in his attempt to rape her. The victim, referred to in the case as 
MEMPHIS, TN - - The so-called "3-2-1 Creeper" strikes again. Police say the man who earned the nickname in 2007 has been breaking into more homes and pushing his sexual fetish on women without their knowledge or consent. A woman called 911 after seeing a man lurking around her neighbor's windows at 5 a.m. "Because he was looking suspicious, walking back and forth, acting like he was about to break in," she said. "He was still in the carport when the police came, and they caught him." Robert Miles is now charged with breaking into five different houses in the same neighborhood over the past two weeks. He is also accused of creeping on women who were asleep inside. Investigators say Miles admitted to the break-ins and to standing over one woman while she slept. They searched his phone and found pictures of her feet, him licking them, and of him performing a sexual act on himself while standing over her.
UPPER DARBY, Pa., – It’s hard for Natalie Holness to think about what might have happened after a man allegedly tried to grab three-year-old 
PHILADELPHIA – A suspected serial robber is linked to a rape and Wednesday night, his victim spoke out for the first time. “I’m trying to get myself together, I want to go back home, I miss my house.” It is heartbreaking to hear a 62-year-old woman yearning to return home. But you can understand why she is scared to even show her face or use her name when you learn what she endured inside her home near 23rd and Clearfield Streets, at the hands of the two men police say were caught on surveillance video. “I thought my life was over, I begged for my life. I said, you want money? I got money downstairs. It was two in the house and they said: This is the fire department. That’s when I screamed and then they choked me and the other one tried to put the pillow on my face and I wiggled myself off the bed but they flew me back on the bed.” Raheim Riggins is now wanted for the March 20th rape and robbery of the 62-year-old. Police say since June, Riggins and Hashiem Clark robbed at least 12 people and sexually assaulted a teenager.
SALT LAKE CITY — Police were searching Wednesday night for a man accused of rape who was erroneously released from Salt Lake County Jail. Anthony S. Moultry, 27, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court with rape, a first-degree felony, and burglary, a second-degree felony. He was also charged with theft and lewdness, both class B misdemeanors. Moultry is accused of forcing his way into a woman's Murray home on Aug. 3, raping her and stealing her wallet on the way out the door, according to charging documents. He was booked into jail that day but was accidentally released about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday.
HENRICO, VA - A Henrico man is in jail accused of raping a woman at his home. Police say Tadros Kauch was out drinking at a bar with friends, including the victim, back in June. Investigators say he offered to take the victim home because she was intoxicated, but they ended up back at his place. That's where police says she was assaulted. Kauch was indicted by a Henrico grand jury in July for the rape charge. 
A 21-year-old woman standing on a Josephine Street sidewalk early Wednesday morning was kidnapped at gunpoint by a man who took her to a Central City apartment and raped her repeatedly, police said. Police arrested 41-year-old Larry Vail just hours after the woman reported the attack; he was booked on charges of aggravated rape and second-degree kidnapping. 
The man behind one of the most iconic R&B music videos of all time will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he was found guilty of trying to create "pure" blood lines by siring six children with his own daughter. Aswad Ayinde, 55, of Paterson, NJ was sentenced to 50 years behind bars for sexually assaulting his daughter which will be tacked onto the 40 he is already serving for sexually assaulting another one of his daughters. Ayinde was convicted of multiple charges in relation to his second daughter who he had sex with when she was between the ages of 8 and 22, impregnating four times.
WAYNE COUNTY -- A man is facing charges after he allegedly locked a woman in a barn and tried to sexually assault her, then later stole her purse. An investigation revealed that 68-year-old Roland Whitley held a 28-year-old LaGrange, North Carolina woman against her will in a barn behind his home and attempted to sexually assault her. Authorities said the woman was able to escape using a screwdriver and ran off with a bottle of liquor belonging to Whitley. Whitley reportedly went after the woman in his vehicle and confronted her down the street about taking his alcohol. The woman told officials that when she attempted to give Whitley his liquor back, he pushed her down and drove off with the liquor and her purse. 
GREENWOOD, S.C. - Two women who were sexually assaulted on the campus of Lander University are suing the school for failing to keep them safe. The suit filed last month accuses the Greenwood school of negligence and breach of contract. Lander officials would not talk about the lawsuit. Authorities say two former football players at Presbyterian College tied three women up and taped their mouths during the March 2012 attack. In December, Bobby Henderson III, of Orlando, Fla., was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree burglary, three counts of kidnapping and three counts of criminal sexual conduct. Nineteen-year-old Cameren Jones is serving a 23-year sentence.
CHICAGO – Two men convicted of the 2006 armed robbery and rape of two teenage girls in west suburban Maywood have each been sentenced to 120 years in prison, while a third suspect awaits trial. Cortez Lyons, 25, and Timothy Moore, 26, were charged with armed robbery and aggravated criminal sexual assault for the attack on three teens in a Maywood alley in 2006. They were convicted by a Cook County jury in March, and sentenced by Cook County Judge Paula Daleo to 120-year prison terms, a statement from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office said.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Just weeks before the start of the school year, the principal at Douglas Byrd Middle School in Fayetteville is now off the job. ABC11 has learned that David Edwards has resigned, and that the Cumberland County Sheriff's Department is in the middle of investigating sexual abuse allegations. Those allegations were made by a
GASTONIA, NC - A Gastonia man was arrested Wednesday morning on three separate indecent exposure charges. Stephan Leon White, 22, is charged with three counts of indecent exposure, according to the police reports from the Gastonia Police Department. Police say one of the cases involved White showing his genitals to a 
RALEIGH, N.C -- A man is charged with indecent exposure and other crimes after Raleigh police say his style of panhandling was completely inappropriate. According to investigators, 32-year-old Anthony Antonio Rogers was approaching people in front of the Marriot hotel on Fayetteville Street Tuesday evening asking for money. Police said Rogers was wearing very baggy pants and approaching women and children - sometimes aggressively. When offered money, he would reach his hand out and let go of his pants, which would fall down exposing his genitals.
A Dallas woman who allegedly was distracted by Facebook has been charged after a 3-year-old girl she was supposed to watch drowned in a pool. Dallas County jail records show 37-year-old Kariasa Thomas was being held Wednesday on a charge of reckless injury to a child. Officials say 
DEKALB COUNTY, GA - Surveillance video shows a man, who works at the DeKalb County Animal Shelter, filling up a bowl with dog food and going into a cage Wednesday morning. Police said he then appeared to beat the dog with a bowl, and was also later seen kicking that dog. That man, Calvin Battle, 26, was arrested and charged with one count of misdemeanor cruelty to animals. Police said it was a sergeant in the Animal Cruelty Unit who saw Battle, on video, inside the DeKalb County shelter Wednesday morning repeatedly beat the dog.
RAMAPO -- Ramapo police responding to a report of a possible gunshot victim instead found a pedestrian struck multiple times by paint balls in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime. The victim stated that he and a friend were talking and leaning against the friend's car when another vehicle traveling south on Rita Avenue pulled up to them. Both the victim and his friend said they observed a male shoot a black rifle at them from the passenger side window of the car about five or six times, striking the victim twice in the abdomen and the car three or four times. They also reported hearing someone yell "expletive Jews" as they drove past. The victim and his friend, who are members of the Haverim community patrol, broadcast their situation over their portable radios. Members of patrol who were also in the area followed the vehicle and cornered it on Frances Place in Monsey. The suspects were identified as 23-year-old Shashi Ramsaroop, 20-year-old Lindsey Peaks and 19-year-old Demetrius Latrell Torain. 
A man has been jailed for life for murdering his girlfriend and dumping her body in a canal on Christmas Day. 
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Pa. — Three people have been arrested in connection with the death of a Washington & Jefferson College football player last year. 
Jackson police arrested Demario Mangum, 16, on sexual assault charges after allegedly assaulting his 2-year-old neighbor. According to authorities, the child’s father asked Mangum to watch the toddler while he helped his wife with car trouble. Later that evening, the mother noticed the child was bleeding and took her to an area hospital. Mangum is being charged as an adult.
A well-known Loudoun County basketball coach and trainer has been arrested on accusations that he sexually assaulted at least one of his athletes, officials say. Marlow Mikassa Afshartous, a 39-year-old who also goes by the name Marlow Talley, was charged Saturday with sexual assault and solicitation of child pornography, Loudoun County Sheriff's officials say. Talley, who coached at a number of local gyms and schools including Georgetown Day School, the Claude Moore Recreation Center and Fairfax Stars, had a sexual relationship with a girl who was under the age of 13, authorities say. 
Vivencia Bellegarde repeatedly called me a racist and told me she was from Haiti and she was gonna ‘put voodoo on my white (expletive) trooper Kokocinski wrote. Surveillance video of the 3:13 a.m. Monday crash shows a car slamming into the Globe truck, forcing it off the roadway and into a frightening 40-foot free fall. The truck came apart on impact with the Leverett Connector on-ramp below. The truck driver, 
MIAMI - A Florida man who has spent 35 years on death row for
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A man has been charged with rape in relation to an incident that occurred early Sunday morning in the Victory Heights area of Christiansburg, according to a police news release. Christopher McKinsley Dobbins II, 21, of Christiansburg, was being held without bond this morning at the Montgomery County Jail. According to online records, Dobbins was arrested Monday. The police investigation at this point includes evidence that Dobbins and the victim knew each other.
CHICAGO – Police have arrested two teenagers in connection with a pair of robberies and sexual assaults in the South Chicago neighborhood over the weekend. Two suspects – both under the age of 18 – allegedly robbed women at gunpoint, then raped them. Rasheed Hinton, 17, has been charged with two counts of aggravated robbery, and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault.
WOODSTOCK, Md. — Baltimore County Police are looking for a man who pulled a jogger into the woods in Woodstock and tried to strangle her. It happened on July 30 around 5:30 p.m. A 25-year-old woman was jogging in the area of Siena Way when police say a suspect pulled the victim into a wooded area, and attempted to strangle her with an item of clothing. The victim bit the suspect on the arm, and was able to escape. The suspect was last seen running through the woods. The suspect is a black male, 16 to 20 years old, 5’6” tall, with an average build. He was wearing all dark clothing and may have a bite mark on his right arm. 
McKnight was pulled over after passing by a police car at high speed and failing to signal while changing lanes; the officer ran his license plate and discovered two outstanding warrants.
less than two minutes long as the military trial began under heavy security at the Texas base. He faces the death penalty for the Nov. 5, 2009 rampage, in which 13 people were killed and where witnesses said Hasan yelled "Alahu Akhbar!" as he sprayed gunfire at 
FLINT, MI -- Peris Dorsette, 20, has been arraigned on murder and torture charges in the death of
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ORLANDO -- A man is in the Orange County Jail, charged with stealing a car and killing his girlfriend. DeLand police said they received a call just after 5 a.m. Friday from the Hunters Creek Apartments. A man reported his car stolen after seeing the car being driven away by Khambrel Hadley. More than six hours later, DeLand officers returned to the apartment complex for a well-being check requested by Orlando police. The suspect’s mother called officers, saying her son admitted to killing his girlfriend “two days ago” and dumping her body in an unknown area. It was also alleged he had stolen a car. A body was later found in a wooded area near State Road 46 and Hunter Avenue now confirmed to be Hadley’s girlfriend 19-year-old 
BEAUFORT, SC - Prosecutors in Beaufort County say they hope a 45 year sentence for a man convicted in a brutal murder will help to bring some closure to the victim's family. "I'm very pleased with the verdict and hope it brings some measure of closure to the family," said deputy Sean Thornton, who prosecuted the case against 34-year-old Kelvin Jackson who was sentenced to 45 years in prison after being found guilty of the 2011 murder of 34-year-old 
HATTIESBURG, MS - A 26-year-old man was shot to death Thursday night in Hattiesburg in what witnesses said was a home invasion. Police discovered
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A Goose Creek man who seriously injured an officer and wounded two others during a shooting spree in 2010 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Codrick Bass, 36, of Goose Creek pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and kidnapping, according to the Post and Courier. He submitted Alford pleas for three counts of attempted murder. Investigators say then-Goose Creek police officer 
OKLAHOMA CITY – Police have arrested a man for the murder of a convenience store clerk neighbors said was a friend to all he met. Authorities arrested 28-year-old Michael Deveraux into custody for first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm. Over week ago, a customer walked into the Four Seasons Gas and Food Convenience Store and found the body of 62-year-old 
Charges have been authorized in connection with the brutal slayings of a Clinton Township woman and her 11-year-old daughter, whose bodies were found this week. Jay Thomas Miller, 29, of Clinton Township was arraigned this afternoon by Magistrate Daniel J. Goulette in 41B District Court in Clinton Township. He is charged with lying to a police officer for a violent crime investigation and resisting and obstructing a police officer. Miller is being held on $200,000 bond and assigned a court-appointed attorney. He will have a preliminary exam within 14 days. 
Police in New York City are trying to find a black man wearing a hoodie who is responsible for a horrific attack on a teenage white girl who was stabbed 11 times just steps from her front door. The knife-wielding maniac ambushed Natasha Martinez, 17, as she returned home from working her shift at a local McDonald’s restaurant. Cops are still searching for the assailant and are looking at surveillance video from Monday to see if the suspect may have started following Martinez from McDonald’s or a nearby sandwich shop where she stopped to eat before heading home. A hoodie-wearing man can be seen in the video. Police also recovered a bloody kitchen knife with a 6-inch blade in the building’s vestibule. 
SACRAMENTO – A former employee charged for the murder of a parks superintendent in January 2012 has been convicted of first degree murder. A jury convicted 49-year-old Dupree Barber for the murder of 
PORTLAND, Oregon – A 46-year-old homeless man who was reportedly stomped by Houston Rocket Terrence Jones Wednesday opened up about the attack Thursday. 
OROVILLE, Calif. - Wednesday morning an Oroville man accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. A group of the victim's friends rallied outside the courthouse, vowing to get justice. Olabaku Jones, 43, entered his plea in Butte County Court Wednesday morning. He is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend 
A Gary man who was linked to a 2011 homicide by a DNA database hit has pleaded guilty to murder in exchange for a 45-year prison sentence. Cadereo Eugene Jester, 26, admitted he killed 