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Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors has announced that she’s transitioning out of her role as executive director. On Thursday, she said on her YouTube channel, “… I feel excited for me, and my next journey.” Cullors revealed that at the end of 2019 she had stepped back from the organization, but people within BLM

Click here for updates on this story     MCDOWELL COUNTY, North Carolina (WLOS) — A Marion woman has been arrested and charged after authorities said she fled police after a traffic violation. The McDowell County Sheriff’s Office says on Monday, May 24, 2021, at around 6:45 p.m. a deputy was sitting at the traffic light at

Correos, Spain’s postal service, ended a widely derided stamp campaign inspired by different skin tones, just three days after its launch, following criticism that it perpetuated racism. The government-run postal service earlier this week debuted “Equality Stamps,” a collection of four stamps meant to represent different skin colors. The palest of the stamps cost 90

Click here for updates on this story     Chicago (WLS) — A 31-year-old man has been charged in connection with a 35-year-old woman’s death after the woman was set on fire last month in South Deering, Chicago police said. The 35-year-old woman ran to a nearby firehouse after a 31-year-old man, later identified as Henry Taylor,

Click here for updates on this story     ANDERSON, Indiana (WISH) — A central Indiana candy store owner says he’s not sorry for what he said on social media. Randy Good was criticized for a controversial job posting on Facebook in which he called female employees “splitters” and “pukers.” He claims they try to split each

Click here for updates on this story     BENSONHURST (WABC) — Last Saturday morning, two veteran sanitation workers saw a second-floor apartment on fire and jumped into action. “You’d think an ordinary day would be garbage trucks, but in these streets you see everything,” Robert Febles said. “When we actually pulled up to the corner the

Click here for updates on this story     BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — A desperate search is underway in Brooklyn after a young woman misplaced a priceless ring. A 32-year-old Thanaa’a Edwards was sitting on a bench when she took off her ring and placed it on her lap to put on sunblock. As she was

Click here for updates on this story     IDAHO FALLS (eastidahonews.com) — A local man is having second thoughts about pleading guilty to shooting and killing his friend in the driveway of a Bonneville County home. Marshall Dee Hendricks, 31, and his new attorney Allen Browning have filed a motion in court asking that Hendricks withdraw

Around 400,000 people have fled the city of Goma and its surroundings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the threat of another volcanic eruption at Mount Nyiragongo looms, a provincial government spokesperson said Friday. Maj. Njike Kaiko Guillaume, spokesperson for the military governor of North Kivu, said that the Volcanic Observatory of

Click here for updates on this story     TAOS, New Mexico (KOAT) — Santiago Mondragon was the oldest of four children. The Taos native loved his family, friends, sports and the outdoors. “He was awesome, he loved to joke around, he enjoyed life and he loved camping and fishing spending time with his family,” said his

Click here for updates on this story     RIVERSIDE, California (KABC) — After more than 100 BB guns shootings on the 91 Freeway in the span of a month, there have been no additional incidents reported since the arrest of an Anaheim man earlier this week. 34-year-old Jesse Leal Rodriguez of Anaheim is in jail on