80% OF MISSOURI TOWN OFFICIALS AND COPS RESIGN AFTER FIRST BLACK FEMALE MAYOR IS ELECTED

TYRUS BYRD

As the town of Parma, Mo. celebrated its first Black female mayor, several officials decided to step down instead, the Huffington Post reports.

 

UTAH BRINGS BACK THE FIRING SQUAD AS A METHOD OF EXECUTING PRISONERS

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert gave his stamp of approval Monday to a law that brings back the firing squad in the only state that has used it in the past 40 years.

OKLAHOMA SENATOR INTRODUCES BILL TO BAN COUPLES WITH STD'S FROM GETTING MARRIED

SENATOR ANTHONY SYKES (R)

If one Oklahoma lawmaker has his way, people with sexually transmitted diseases will not just be getting married in his state.

JAY Z MEETS WITH GOVERNOR CUOMO TO DISCUSS REFORMS IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM

GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO & JAY Z

Jay Z wants justice. Following public outcry in the Eric Garner decision, the hip-hop mogul met with Governor Andrew Cuomo to push for changes to New York’s criminal justice system.

FORMER WASHINGTON D.C. MAYOR MARION BARRY DIES AT THE AGE OF 78

MARION BARRY

Marion Barry, an icon of D.C. politics good and bad for more than 40 years, has died at age 78.

VOTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA: "DONT TOUCH MY GIRLFRIEND"

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

President Obama found himself in an unusual situation Monday.

As he was casting his ballot early in Chicago, minding his own business behind the voting booth, a young man, Mike Jones, walked by and warned him "don't touch my girlfriend."

PRESIDENT OBAMA WARNS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO STEP UP EBOLA MONITORING AND ASSISTANCE TO COMBAT THE DEADLY VIRUS

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would provide "much more aggressive" monitoring of Ebola cases in the United States and warned that in an age of frequent travel the disease could spread globally if the world doesn't respond to the "raging epidemic in West Africa."

UNIVERSITY STUDY SHOWS HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF WHITE AMERICANS SUPPORT VOTER ID LAWS WHEN BLACKS ARE USED IN PHOTO VOTING

Sixty-seven percent of white Americans support voter ID laws, according to a new University of Delaware study of 1,436 U.S. adults. But when the voter ID question was accompanied by a photo of black people using a voting machine, white support for voter ID laws jumped to 73 percent.

(VIDEO) DESPERATE REPUBLICANS DEGRADE WOMEN AND DISREPECT OBAMA WITH LATEST COMMERCIAL AD

GOP HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER

Your sexist alarm should be going off after seeing this ad. Republicans are, yet again, proving just how crazy they are.

FERGUSON POLICE REMAIN DEFIANT IN IGNORING THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE'S MANDATE TO WEAR NAME TAGS

FEGUSON, MISSOURI POLICE DEPARTMENT

The tense situation in Ferguson, Mo. since the police shooting death of Mike Brown has persisted with curious actions from the officers present on the ground.

BOSTON HERALD ARTIST CLAIMS IGNORANCE IN CARTOON DEPICTING PRESIDENT OBAMA USING WATERMELON TOOTHPASTE

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

The Boston Herald artist who has the Internet in an uproar over his racially-charged cartoon featuring President Barack Obama and a reference to the stereotype that African Americans love watermelon apologized for offending readers, and said he didn’t even consider the negative implications in the drawing.

HURRICANE KATRINA'S EX-MAYOR RAY NAGIN STARTS OF NEW ORLEANS 10 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE

NEW ORLEANS EX-MAYOR RAY NAGIN

Ray Nagin, who will forever be remembered as the mayor who held New Orleans down, as the city tried to withstand the deadly and destructive cyclone Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, is headed to federal prison on Monday to begin his 10-year stint for corruption, according to The Times-Picayune.

SEC TARGETS CORRUPTION IN THE STOCK MARKET LEADING TO POSSIBLY THE BIGGEST INSIDER TRADER SCANDAL IN HISTORY

BRIAN SUTTER

A frustrated Securities and Exchange Commission revealed that an investigation hindered by stonewalling government employees could balloon into the biggest insider trading case in history, implicating as many as 44 hedge funds and trading firms, new court documents show.

NEW YORK'S GOV. ANDREW CUOMO SIGNS LEGAL MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAW

GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to sign a medical marijuana into law for New York, making it the 23rd state to legalize the drug to treat patients, according to advocates invited to the ceremony.

LAWS RESTRICTING ACCESS TO ABORTION IN THE SOUTH HIT 2 STATES AND AWAIT 10 MORE

From Texas to Alabama, laws are being enacted that would greatly restrict access to abortion, forcing many women to travel hundreds of miles to find a clinic.

FOXS NEWS OFFICIALLY HIRES "CLUELESS" ACTRESS STACY DASH AFTER ENDORSING ROMNEY OVER OBAMA

STACY DASH

Fox News Channel has gone Hollywood for its latest hire. The news network is bringing on actress Stacey Dash as a paid contributor.

THE U.S. MILITARY WANTS TO USE BRAIN IMPLANTS TO TREAT COMBAT TRAUMA ON RETURNING SOLDIERS

For soldiers coping with brain injuries and post-traumatic stress, coming home may be tougher than the actual fighting; their conditions can last a lifetime.
Long-term relief may be on the horizon for US veterans, though.

POLICE COMMISSIONER FORCED TO RESIGN AFTER DEFIANTLY ADMITTING CALLING PRESIDENT OBAMA A N*GGER

ROBERT COPELAND

A town police commissioner has resigned after he admitted using a racial slur to describe President Barack Obama, an official said Monday.

TENNESSEE CITY CREATES NEW LAW THAT BANS SAGGING PANTS DEEMING IT ILLEGAL

Pull up your pants, people. That's the message the city of Pikeville, Tennessee, is sending its residents with a new law banning saggy pants.

CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS ADVANCE BILL THAT REQUIRES ALL SMARTPHONES TO HAVE A KILL SWITCH

On a second attempt, California lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that would require electronics manufacturers to install a shut-off function in all smartphones as a way to deter what one senator called a crime wave of thefts.