Author: Michael E. Miller

Officials in Austin are investigating the violent arrest of a black elementary school teacher who was body-slammed by a white police officer during a traffic stop. The investigation comes after the emergence of police video footage showing not only the June 2015 arrest but also a scene afterward, when another white officer told the teacher…

It was the simplest of mistakes with the steepest of consequences. Two teenagers were drinking in Chicopee, Mass., Saturday afternoon when they set off to find a friend, according to authorities. Whether it was the booze or the sheer similarity of the neighborhood’s low-slung homes, the teens somehow ended up at the wrong house. One…

It wasn’t until Josh Vallum was kissing Mercedes Williamson that he reached between her legs and realized she had a penis. The next thing he knew, he was standing over the transgender teen’s dead body with a hammer in his hand. That, at least, is the story Vallum, a member of the Latin Kings street…

A video showing two white police officers involved in a deadly altercation with a 37-year-old black man in Baton Rouge circulated across the Internet early Wednesday morning, prompting peaceful street protests in the city and anger elsewhere. The video showed two Baton Rouge police officers attempting to detain Alton Sterling after the officers responded to…

On Saturday night, an Indianapolis man named Derek and his wife took her parents to a show at the famous Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo, Mich. As the craft beer flowed, a band called Andy Frasco and the U.N. belted out uplifting blues music. The group’s new album title seemed to capture the mood: “Happy Bastards.”…