When Jason Fauntleroy bought a vacant lot at a sheriff’s office auction for $5,000 three years ago, it came with an unexpected bonus: the purchase also included the entire adjacent street, Bloomfield Court, a cul-de-sac with several other houses. Now, the city of Trenton, Ohio, is trying to reclaim his property through eminent domain in...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk continued his recent trend of incendiary musings Friday morning when he shared a post comparing diversity, equity and inclusion programs to laws designed to disenfranchise Black Americans. “DEI is racism and sexism,” wrote Musk, replying to a post on X — the social media platform he owns — that read “Jim...
George Henderson, a 61-year-old Black man with Alzheimer’s disease, disappeared from his Tennessee home early last month, prompting local police to issue a Silver Alert for the man who spent almost three decades in the U.S. Army where he served in six overseas deployments, receiving head injuries and PTSD as a result. The retired master...
They endured medieval-like conditions, were kept in a dungeon, and treated “worse than prisoners of war,” prosecutors said of the five adopted children of Charles and Matthew Edmondson. The Ohio couple was sentenced last Friday after they accepted plea deals on charges including child endangerment, felonious assault and kidnapping. Charles Edmondson, 64, will serve a...
A Black female passenger claimed that she was kicked off an American Airlines flight because a white man alleged he felt racially threatened. The woman recently posted multiple videos about her experience on TikTok under her account @lovergirlmagic. Credit: @lovergirlmagic/TikTok One video shows the moment she and her girlfriend were booted from the flight. Another...