An elderly French couple who unwittingly sold a rare African mask worth $4.6 million for a mere $165 has lost a court battle to annul the auction sale of the mask. The couple sold the mask to a dealer they’d hired to help them clean out their attic. According to the BBC, the second-hand art...
A month after a 17-year-old died under the guardianship of a Memphis group home, her family and their lawyers are demanding the organization and law enforcement release video footage of the incident the family claims precipitated her death. Alegend Jones’ mother, Shona Garner-White, told reporters this week that a surveillance video of her daughter’s final...
A jury in Colorado decided that two first responders, Jeremy Cooper and Peter Cichuniec from Aurora Fire Rescue, are responsible for the death of Elijah McClain, a young Black man, who died in 2019 due to a fatal overdose of a sedative during his arrest. Paramedics Jeremy Cooper (left) and Peter Cichuniec (right) are on...
A South Carolina man is facing charges after being accused of biting a 2-year-old, resulting in injuries. The man, identified as 23-year-old Jesse Phillip Brassell, was charged with cruelty to children, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division(SLED) announced on Tuesday. He was sent to the Colleton County Detention Center. Brassell told investigators that he bit...
A federal inmate was indicted this week in the brutal stabbing of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in an Arizona prison library in late November. John Turscak, 52, faces charges of attempted murder, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury after Chauvin was...
Kyle Rittenhouse says the National Rifle Association (NRA) did not help him during his murder trial for killing two Black Lives Matter protesters. Rittenhouse fatally shot two protesters with an AR-style rifle on Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, during the Jacob Blake protests. Rittenhouse appeared on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new show,...