PARIS — A Black man beaten up by several French police officers said he is seeking justice after the publication of videos showing officers repeatedly punching him, using a truncheon and tear gas against him for no apparent reason. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered the officers involved in the case suspended. The incident came … Read more
Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, died Monday. He was 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton’s, on Tuesday confirmed his passing. Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white part of a racially segregated bus station in … Read more
A 14-year-old Michigan girl who was handcuffed by police three years ago — leading to department reforms — has died of COVID-19, her family said. Honestie Hodges’ grandmother announced in a Sunday post on GoFundMe that the teen died following a nearly two-week stay at Helen Devos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids. Hodges tested positive … Read more
Two Texas men have been charged with trying to sell 50 million non-existent N95 face masks to a foreign government, prosecutors said Tuesday. Arael Doolittle, 55, and Paschal Ngozi Eleanya, 46, both of Houston, planned to defraud a foreign government — which federal prosecutors didn’t name — out of $317 million worth of N95 respirator … Read more
Republican Sen. David Perdue on Tuesday invited New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to come down to Georgia and campaign for his Democratic opponent. The incumbent senator — who is facing off against Jon Ossoff in a heated Jan. 5 runoff election — appeared to want to speak to the lefty congresswoman about her support of … Read more
Massachusetts police on Tuesday arrested a man accused of spitting at two women hikers who weren’t wearing face masks — and telling them he had COVID-19. Hale Powell, 71, was charged with false threat of a biological agent and assault and battery for Saturday’s caught-on-camera incident on a hiking trail in Ashburnham. The septuagenarian pleaded … Read more
This hunter was no match for an angry deer. Czech police are hoping to find a hunter’s gun after the mammal snatched it away with its antlers. The deer was scared off by a dog when it encountered a group of hunters, and then used his antlers to seize the 0.22 Hornet rifle before running … Read more
Snow way! Florida’s first snow park announced it was curbing its hours just days after opening — due to a shortage of flakes. Officials at Snowcat Ridge in Dade City said the park has seen an avalanche of interest since opening on Friday, and “misestimated the amount of snow production” required to allow guests to … Read more
Three men have been charged in the murder of a 10-year-old Tennessee girl who was killed by a stray bullet in her sleep. Lillyhanna Davis was laying on a couch in her home near Elizabethton at around 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 17 when a bullet from a drive by shooting passed through the wall and … Read more
Accused child abuser Ghislaine Maxwell is roused by a flashlight every 15 minutes in her cell to make sure she hasn’t killed herself like Jeffrey Epstein — and subjected to more onerous conditions than the Bureau of Prison’s most dangerous inmates, her lawyers wrote Tuesday in a letter. “She is overmanaged under conditions more restrictive … Read more