From ABC News:
A 5-year-old Los Angeles boy was fighting for his life today after suffering what police called one of the worst cases of child abuse they have seen, allegedly at the hands of his mother and her live-in girlfriend.
Police said the boy had countless cigarette burns all over his body, including his genitals, […]

EDITED: I just heard from Oowee’s girlfriend Porsche who says Oowee, or Walter as she calls him, is not jailed on murder charges. His victim did not die. We regret those errors and have removed them.
We lost another one to the system. I don’t think I’ve ever pulled for anyone harder […]

From TMZ.com:
A jury has found R. Kelly not guilty!
A jury acquitted the singer of all fourteen counts of child pornography.
Kelly had long denied being on the video tape at the center of the trial — and even the alleged victim denied it was her!

It took 6 years to bring singer and child molester R. Kelly to justice. But now a juror wants to derail the trial by requesting to go home.
On Thursday, the case went to a Chicago jury for deliberations. One juror - I bet he or she was black - sent a note to […]

The celebrity trainer and club promoter who was savagely beaten 6 months ago, is severely brain damaged and remains in a coma.
Darius Miller’s mom, Patricia Bonhomme, told WSB-TV Channel 2 anchor Jovita Moore that her son, Darius Miller, 41, remains unresponsive to her and doctors. “If you tell him ‘Darius, squeeze my hand’ he cannot […]

My grandmother (RIP) used to tell me it’s easier to do evil when evil resides in your heart. I feel for the family of Jay Din, the 4-year-old boy who was beaten to death 2 years ago.
I also feel sorry for the family of his accused killer, Herbert Warren, who reached out to me […]

I don’t have the full story, but once I get all the details I will update. Once again an innocent baby has lost his life and a mother mourns the loss of her child - all because of a no good man she met in some bar.
The mother, Timika Martin told police she left […]

The judge presiding over the R. Kelly trial has decided Sun-Times reporter and music critic Jim DeRogatis does not have to testify after all.
Judge Gaughan ruled Friday that DeRogatis had no protection against testifying under either the First Amendment or the Illinois reporter’s privilege. He reaffirmed that decision Tuesday when DeRogatis failed to show […]

Thank you to David Simpson of the AJC for following up on this story about Nafiza Ziyad, the mentally ill woman whose videotaped rant aboard a MARTA train received over 600,000 views on YouTube and became a viral sensation.
Ziyad, 25, is now living in a personal care home for the mentally ill. According to […]

Chicago Sun-Times music writer Jim DeRogatis is in hot water with the judge presiding over the R. Kelly child pron trial.
The writer, who defense attorneys say is responsible for the widespread distribution of the videotape at the center of the case, was a no-show at a Cook County court yesterday morning to testify in the […]