A Black man was shot and killed in Raleigh, North Carolina Monday by city police officers after they chased the alleged drug suspect. Akiel Denkins, 24, was unarmed according to his mother and witness statements, the Huffington Post reports.

Of 7,600 people screened from August through December 2015, less than .3 percent tested positive.

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The Washington D.C. area, which received over two feet of snow, has decided to close both federal and local government offices and schools.

Marie Holmes, the North Carolina mom who won a $188 million Powerball lottery jackpot last year and has spent millions bailing her boyfriend out of jail, now has legal challenges of her own.

"I'm the first person to see him and when I saw him, I thought it was a dummy gun, but then I saw the bullet clip in his hand and the bullets were shining," the pastor told CNN.

Maleah Williams was outside her apartment playing with Christmas gifts alongside friends when shots rang out in the complex.

18-year-old Daquan Antonio Westbrook was shot and killed by a police officer

The family of 11-year-old La’Darious Wylie is celebrating his life after he died saving his 7-year-old sister in a fatal hit-and-run in North Carolina.

At least one person was killed, and another injured, in a shooting that happened at Winston-Salem State University early Sunday morning.

Protesters have been accused of defacing a Confederate statue in Charleston, South Carolina, reports the Huffington Post. The tagging was discovered over the weekend when Emanuel AME…

After serving 30 years behind bars for a crime they didn’t commit, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory granted pardons on Thursday to Henry McCollum and…