A Baltimore City police officer died of a drug overdose early Friday, Baltimore County police said. Joseph Banks Jr. was off duty and at a motel in the 4400 block of Washington Boulevard in Halethorpe, according to a police report. Baltimore County officers responded to a reported overdose. Upon arrival, his girlfriend told police he was unconscious. She said she and Banks had been using drugs throughout the day. At 11 p.m. Thursday, she told police, Banks used the last of the drugs and made noises indicating he was having trouble breathing. She then called a friend to get the overdose reversal medication naloxone. She was unable to administer it, and called police at 3:10 a.m. Responding me

Everyone from Trump to Cardi B has been attacking Jussie Smollett. However, all of the facts apparently still have not come forward and now the FBI is challenging reports from the notoriously corrupt Chicago Police Department. Chicago Police Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a long press conference that the “Empire” actor wrote the hateful Jan. 22 letter to himself. See below: However, TMZ is reporting the FBI said the Chicago Police were “overstating” when they said Jussie sent the letter to himself. One federal law enforcement source told TMZ, “I think he [Johnson] went too far. We’re not there yet.” TMZ also reports, “We’re told authorities are trying to determine if the pages h

Rapper T.I.’s older sister Precious Harris has died at the age of 66. According to TMZ, Harris died on Friday, over a week after getting into a serious car accident in Atlanta. Sharing a touching tribute with her mother on Friday, Harris’ daughter Kamaya wrote that she was “heartbroken.” “From my bestfriend on earth to My beautiful angel in heaven,” she wrote on Instagram alongside a shot of her mother smiling by the beach. “Mama girl you know ima miss you💔…. I love you so much. I’m so heartbroken but the way you looked so @ peace this past week has confirmed that you are resting… no more asthma attacks… damn but baby I am going to miss you 😓” Harris has three children: Kayama Chapman, Avi

(CNN) New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is being charged with two counts of soliciting someone to commit prostitution, stemming from a raid in a day spa in Florida, police said Friday. The day spa is in the Florida city of Jupiter, and Kraft was picked up as part of a sting that has been going on for months, Jupiter Police Chief Daniel Kerr said. Kraft took ownership of the Patriots in January 1994. Since then, the NFL team has played in 10 Super Bowls, winning six of them, including this past season. Kraft also is CEO of The Kraft Group, a holding company of numerous family businesses including Major League Soccer's New England Revolution, as well as International Forest Products. #ro

Donald Trump has appointed the son-in-law of his next attorney general to the White House legal office, sparking fresh conflict-of-interest concerns in an administration that has increasingly become a family affair. Tyler McGaughey, who is married to attorney general William Barr’s youngest daughter, left his post in the Justice Department for the new role. News of the transition broke just as the US Senate voted to confirm Mr Barr as the nation’s next chief law enforcement officer on Friday afternoon. The attorney general refused to commit to recusing himself from overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, despite p

Roseanne Barr is at it again. The actress/comedienne who lost her job and her hit ABC show after her racist Twitter rant against Valerie Jarrett just took some shots at Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and it looks like some folks will never learn to keep their mouths shut. Over the weekend, Barr posted a video to YouTube calling AOC a “bug-eyed bi*ch” and a “Farrakhan loving bi*ch” over her proposed Green New Deal; a plan intended to “achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and create economic prosperity for all.” This isn’t the first time Roseanne Barr has made offensive statements against women who deserve respect. Back in May, Roseanne Barr was abruptly fired from her own show af

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. Coast Guard lieutenant working in the nation's capital lived a secret life as a "domestic terrorist" who aspired to mass murder and compiled a target list of prominent politicians and journalists, federal prosecutors allege in court papers. Christopher Paul Hasson was arrested Feb. 15 on drug and gun charges, but prosecutors said in a detention memo this week that he intended "to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country." He has espoused extremist views for years, the court papers say, and he read the manifesto of Anders Breivik, the white supremacist Norwegian terrorist who shot and killed 77 people in 2011. From January 2017 to January 2019, "the

Over 2017 and 2018, police departments in the Baltimore area prompted sexual assault victims to waive their rights to an investigation — 223 times, according to a survey by The Baltimore Sun. The practice runs counter to guidance from experts and from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Baltimore County had the highest number: 172 victims reporting sexual assault signed the forms over the two years. After inquiries from The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore County police said they were ceasing the practice. In Anne Arundel County, 43 sex-assault victims had signed the forms. In Harford County, eight. Experts say victims suffering from a recent sexual assault trauma may have impaired de

In February 2015, a Georgia prison inmate mailed a handwritten complaint to the federal court in Macon, saying he’d been held in a windowless cell for nearly 24 hours a day for five years. The inmate, a convicted rapist named Timothy Gumm, said he’d been put there after a failed escape attempt in January 2010 and was told he’d remain there indefinitely, even after the escape charge was wiped from his disciplinary record. He lost contact with loved ones, dropped 50 pounds and was “deprived of almost any environmental and sensory stimuli and of almost all human contact,” he wrote. He saw no way out. “I hate that I even have to trouble you and the court with this matter,” Gumm wrote in a cover

A former Philadelphia Police Department detective pleaded not guilty Tuesday to allegations that he sexually assaulted male witnesses and suspects over more than a decade. Philip Nordo allegedly "groomed" his victims during ongoing investigations and engaged in conduct to make these men "more susceptible to his sexually assaultive and/ or coercive behavior," the heavily redacted grand jury report said. He was denied bail. His next hearing is set for late March. In their report, a Philadelphia grand jury recommended that Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner charge Nordo with several felony counts of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, sexual assault, indecent assault, stalki

An Alabama newspaper editor on Tuesday was removed from the University of Southern Mississippi’s journalism Hall of Fame for writing an editorial that called for the Ku Klux Klan to “ride again” to block tax increases. Goodloe Sutton, the publisher of the Democrat-Reporter in Linden, Ala., was stripped of the honor over the “misguided and dangerous nature of his comments.” “The School of Communication strongly condemns Mr. Sutton’s remarks as they are antithetical to all that we value as scholars of journalism, the media, and human communication,” the school wrote on its website. Sutton was inducted into the honorary group in 2007 based on his anti-corruption articles in the 1990s which earn

(CNN) Anthony "T.J." Cunningham, a former Seattle Seahawks player and assistant principal at a Colorado high school, has died after being shot during a parking dispute, the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office said. Cunningham, 46, an NFL safety during the 1996 season, was shot by a neighbor early Sunday and taken to a hospital, where he died the next day, the sheriff's office said via Twitter. The neighbor, Marcus Johnson, 31, was originally held on attempted murder charges, but the charges were amended to first-degree murder after Cunningham's death, authorities said. It's not clear whether Johnson, who is being held without bond, has an attorney. Cunningham texted Johnson hours before the sho

The Atlanta Immigration Court granted 21 Savage a release on bond Tuesday, according to his lawyers. The rapper was taken into custody nine days ago by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, who said he is actually “a United Kingdom national” who overstayed a nonimmigrant visa. The bond will be posted Wednesday. Lawyers Charles H. Kuck, Dina LaPolt and Alex Spiro spoke with ICE to “both clarify [21 Savage’s] actual legal standing, his eligibility for bond, and provide evidence of his extraordinary contributions to his community and society,” they wrote in a statement, adding that he was granted an expedited hearing and “won his freedom.” ICE spokesman Bryan Cox told The Washingt

Now two states are requiring schools to teach LGBT history, as New Jersey joins California in adopting a law that makes schools teach about the LGBT movement. Jersey’s Gov. Phil Murphy made the promise when he ran for governor to promote equality for gay and transgender people, but signed the bill last week, NorthJersey.com reported. The bill also includes teaching about people with disabilities and their historical roles, NBC News reported. “The Governor believes that ensuring students learn about diverse histories will help build more tolerant communities and strengthen educational outcomes,” the governor’s office said in a statement, NBC News reported. Family members of gay and transgende

New York (CNN-)Vivianne Guevara's work with the Federal Defenders of New York had taken her to the Metropolitan Detention Center many times, but the incessant pounding sound coming from inside the Brooklyn waterfront jail that day was unsettling. "It sounded like a cry for help, and I don't know Morse code or anything, so I couldn't tell if anybody was trying to send a message, but it sounded desperate, and it sounded like people who wanted to be heard," said Guevara, director of client and mitigation services for the public defender organization. "It was shocking to hear," said Guevara, who videotaped the banging of inmates she could not see. During a hearing Tuesday before US District Judg

Jay-Z doesn’t like what’s happening to 21 Savage and he’s going to do something about it. The rap mogul called the 26-year-old’s arrest by ICE agents an “absolute travesty” on Wednesday and hired a lawyer to help with his defense. “The arrest and detention of 21 Savage is an absolute travesty, his U-visa petition has been pending for 4 years,” he said in a statement released by his company Roc Nation. “In addition to being a successful recording artist, 21 deserves to be reunited with his children immediately, #Free21Savage.” Jay-Z’s label has also hired lawyer Alex Spiro to help with 21 Savage’s case, even though the rapper is not signed to Roc Nation, according to TMZ. 21 Savage was arrest

Atlanta rapper 21 Savage has been arrested by immigration officials who say he is actually from the UK, reports say. The rapper, Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, came to the US in July 2005 aged 12 and failed to leave when his visa expired a year later, officials said. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman said he was being held for removal proceedings. The 26-year-old's Wikipedia page says he is from Atlanta. It says he grew up around criminality, dropped out of school and began to rap after the death of a friend. A CNN report quoted an ICE spokesman as saying: "His whole public persona is false". Other reports quoted ICE as saying that the rapper was being held in the state of G

GOSHEN, Ind. — “Offender Dockery stated to me around 0800 at the front counter that she was having stomach pains for 2 days and wanted to go to the hospital,” read the first entry in a corrections officer’s log. It was the first of what became multiple pleas for help by a newly arrived inmate, Lamekia Dockery. The response? “I advised her to stop over-talking me.” For the six days she was incarcerated at the Elkhart Community Corrections work-release facility last July, Ms. Dockery, vomiting and unable to eat, asked for medical attention, to no avail. “She sprawled out on the floor stating she couldn’t breathe,” reads an entry at 12:10 p.m. the next day. “She seemed to be talking just fine.”

Atlanta artist Fabian Williams has announced "Kaeperbowl": his response to the Colin Kaepernick mural he created in 2017 being demolished on the Friday before Super Bowl 53. He and a crew of other artists have received approval by seven local business to put new Colin Kaepernick murals all around Atlanta. And at least one of the murals has already been completed -- as Williams promised in V-103's earlier story on the building's demolition -- in time for the big game: Find out the locations of the seven other new Colin Kaepernick murals below, and follow Williams on Instagram for more information on #Kaeperbowl. #kaeperbowl #colinkaepernick #superbowl #atlanta