Month: December 2020

Jeffery Michael Keene was a devoted husband, father and an Army combat veteran. He had served four tours in Afghanistan and Iraq during his 12 years of service. Despite being in the front lines of war, he would face his deadliest challenge at home. In the years since leaving the military, he and his wife,

A Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy was in Columbus, Ohio, on December 4 looking for violent offenders. Instead, he fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr., a 23-year-old Black man, who had no criminal background, according to a family attorney, and was not the target of any investigation. Goodson’s mother says he was shot as he tried

Things were looking up for Jason Zenga in late 2019 and in early 2020. The personal trainer worked out of a gym based in Santa Monica, California, where he taught classes twice a week. He also worked as an independent corporate trainer through a partnership with his friend, where they’d go to offices and train

Darrion Cockrell hated school as a child, as he navigated the the foster care system. He joined a gang by age 10. But with the help of the educators around him, Cockrell worked his way up and eventually became a teacher himself — one of the best in Missouri, in fact. Cockrell, or “Mr. DC”

Anger over federal executions continued to grow Friday after two Black men died by lethal injection within nearly 24 hours. Alfred Bourgeois was executed the day after Brandon Bernard. Bernard’s death sentence was criticized by celebrities and politicians who fought until the end to halt the execution. Bernard’s case became a high-profile clemency campaign that

“Cheer” star Jeremiah “Jerry” Harris has been indicted on new federal charges that allege he enticed minors to engage in sexual activity, including soliciting them to send him sexually explicit photos or videos of themselves, according to the indictment. The seven-count indictment was filed in US District Court in northern Illinois and made public on