Friday's sentencing came after Conrad Alvin Barrett, 29, plead guilty over the summer. In December 2013, Barrett -- who was 27 at the time -- was charged with a hate crime for punching 79-year-old Roy Coleman, fracturing the man's jaw in two places.

The Department of Justice is preparing to release about 6,000 nonviolent inmates from federal prison at the end of the month.

California governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation for a new law designed to guard people of color against racial profiling at the hands of police…

The board substantiated the charge of excessive force against NYPD Officer James Frascatore -- the cop who tackled tennis star James Blake -- and recommended punishment.

A Black female banker is coming forward after she was forced to spend over a week in a psychiatric ward — all because police officers…

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Violence erupted early Monday ahead of New York City’s West Indian Parade, claiming the life of a 24-year-old male and critically injuring a lawyer appointed…

Cities that have been saddled with high murder rates in the past are still witnessing a spike in those numbers this year

A 23-year-old father says desperation led him to rob a Michigan bank so he could pay for his daughter's chemotherapy treatments.

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News reporter Alison Parker was shot and killed while interviewing a woman for WDBJ-TV, a CBS affiliate in Roanoke, VA.

A White supremacist has been convicted of plotting to build and use a radiation device to kill President Barack Obama and Muslims.

A trial date has been set for Ray Tensing, the former University of Cincinnati police officer who shot Samuel DuBose during a traffic stop.