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Kodak Black has avoided jail time in his sexual assault case involving a teenage girl. ABC 15 reports the 23-year-old rapper, legal name Bill Kapri, was sentenced to 18 months probation after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of first degree assault and battery. Kodak was originally indicted on a charge of criminal sexual conduct in […]
A Georgia woman was taken into custody this week after she allegedly killed a man and his dog in a hit-and-run incident while speeding away from another car collision just minutes earlier. According to ABC News, the deadly crash occurred at around 8 p.m. Sunday in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs. Authorities say 25-year-old Michael Farmer and his dog […]
A grand jury has indicted another man in connection to the death of Texas rapper Mo3. According to the Dallas Morning News, 28-year-old Devin Maurice Brown is facing federal murder charges for his role in the fatal shooting of Mo3 late last year. The rapper, born Melvin Noble, was driving on I-35 in Dallas on Nov. 11 when a masked gunman approached his […]
Chicago police say they have arrested a man in connection to the murder of Jaslyn Adams, a seven-year-old girl who was fatally shot while waiting in line at a McDonald’s drive-thru. According to the Sun-Times, officers arrested 18-year-old Marion Lewis on Thursday following a vehicle pursuit on Eisenhower Expressway. The Chicago Police Department announced Lewis’ charges during a […]
George Floyd’s convicted murderer will receive his sentencing in less than two months. According to CNN, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16, a little over one year after Floyd was killed while in police custody. Chauvin was recorded kneeling on the 46-year-old Black mans’ neck during an attempted arrest […]
Manhattan is one step closer to decriminalizing sex work. On Wednesday, the boroughs’ District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. announced his office will no longer prosecute prostitution-related offenses, citing the disproportionate impact these laws have on women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community. Vance and his team are also looking to dismiss more than 900 cases involving “unlicensed […]
Darnella Frazier has been hailed a hero. The Minneapolis teen was among those who witnessed the deadly arrest of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was killed at the hands of local police in May 2020. The then-17-year-old Frazier used her cellphone to record the deadly incident in which ex-Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine […]
Jon Schaffer, a member of the far-right militia group Oath Keepers, has pleaded guilty for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots—making him the first defendant to do so. The Associated Press reports Schaffer entered the plea deal Friday and has agreed to cooperate with the feds in their ongoing investigation into the deadly siege. The 53-year-old, […]
Philadelphia rapper AR-Ab is expected to spend the next four decades behind bars. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the 38-year-old artist—legal name Abdul West—was sentenced Thursday to 45 years in prison for his alleged role in a drug-trafficking ring. The news comes less than three years after AR-Ab and eight other men were arrested on federal drug charges. […]
Mystikal is ready to make some changes after years of legal turmoil. In a recent interview with the Associated Press, the 50-year-old rapper opened up about his newly dismissed rape case and how the ordeal prompted a change in his lyrics. “When I look back and listen to the music, man — I was a nasty lil’ rapper!” […]
