• 4 people charged in connection with murder of Tacoma man
  In addition to Boyd and Bennett, Titeana Bankston, 20, and Jheri Flood, 24, are charged with rendering criminal assistance on suspicion of helping hide and destroy evidence following the murder. Unrelated to the murder of Howse, Jaron Bennett, Jeremy's 24-year-old brother and a convicted felon, is charged with robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm. According to the Prosecutor's Office, he helped Boyd in the Walgreens robbery that eventually led to the arrests.

• Murder defendant in Marley Lion slaying gets plea deal in exchange for cooperation
• Police: Pre-trial questioning links Marley Lion suspects to earlier robbery involving same gun
• Second murder defendant in Marley Lion shooting pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter

• Update: Burnsville college student missing since shooting is dead, police tell family
• Ref: Palagor Obang Jobi charged with stolen credit card purchases at Walmart, SA
• Shooter sought after student killed at Nina's Grill in Burnsville - Jobi and his family moved to Minnesota from Ethiopia in 1993
• Murder of Ethiopian Student Palagor Jobi - Jobi has been arrested six times in the past three years on charges of fraud, DUI..
• U student, 20, missing after ex-boyfriend arrested in Burnsville bar slaying
  The missing woman had lent the suspect $5,000. They broke up six months later, after Schunk learned that Chavez-Nelson had been detained by Eagan police. She also learned he was living with a woman who was the mother of his child.

• Some recent Black rape and sexual assaults
• Police: Black with African name attempts to rape teenager in college library
  A Collierville man was arrested after sex-related crimes were reported inside a college library. Memphis Police say the 17-year-old victim was fondled before the suspect attempted to rape her inside the library at Christian Brothers University. Olumide Adedipe, 21, is behind bars and held without bond Friday. He is charged with both sexual battery and attempted rape. The victim told officers Adedipe touched her inappropriately, exposed himself to her, and caused her to fear being raped. Adedipe has been arrested several times before, including twice on the University of Memphis campus for simple assault and theft of property.

• Rape charge added against Greensboro black
  GREENSBORO — Authorities today charged a man held in the Guilford County jail with first-degree rape in a December incident. According to online records, bond for Fuquan Aman Delvin, 31, has increased by $500,000 to $800,000. In addition to the rape charge, prosecutors added charges of assault of a female and first-degree kidnapping against Delvin, according to warrants. Delvin had been held since March on charges of assault on a female, second-degree rape, crime against nature and breaking and entering.
  

• Fort Worth black gets life in rape, shooting case
  FORT WORTH — A Tarrant County judge sentenced a convicted felon to multiple life sentences Friday for sexually abusing a teenage relative and raping and shooting his next-door neighbor, who survived. In July, Anthony Devern Session, 37, of Fort Worth pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a child, aggravated kidnapping, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, vehicle theft and aggravated sexual assault. The judge gave Session three life sentences, one for each of the sexual assault cases and one for the kidnapping case. Westfall also sentenced him to 20 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and two years in state jail for vehicle theft.
  

• Mullins is being held without bond on charges of first-degree murder and rape in the deaths of three women
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A man charged with killing three homeless women in Memphis has made a brief appearance in court, where his defense lawyer told a judge that a mental competency report for his client is still being completed. Michael Mullins is being held without bond on charges of first-degree murder and rape in the deaths of three women whose bodies were found in downtown Memphis in 1999, 2011 and last year.
  

• Brackenridge black accused of sexually abusing 8-year-old girl
  Allegheny County Sheriff deputies arrested a Brackenridge man inside an Arnold apartment for allegedly sexually abusing an 8-year-old girl. Brandon Cargile, 32, was found in an attic of an apartment in an alleyway garage along Woodmont Avenue. Cargile had appeared in the sheriff's department “most wanted” web page.He was taken to the Allegheny County Jail without bond to await arraignment on the new charges. The authorities are alleging that in June the girl told an adult that Cargile exposed himself to her and took her pants off. Deputies allege she was able to stave off an assault when she “retreated” to her mother
  

• Pensacola Black Arrested on Child Porn Charges
  A Pensacola man was arrested this morning on child pornography charges after investigators determined he had downloaded sexually explicit pictures and movies of children from the internet onto his home computer. Calvin Louis Bridges, 28, was charged with 14 counts of possession of obscene material/child pornography. He was booked into the Escambia County Jail on a $28,000 bond.
  

• St. Louis black's video recorded sexual abuse of child on stranger's phone
  A St. Louis man faces disturbing charges of sexual abuse of a child after police tracked him down through a cell phone video. Police say an unknown person discovered a 30-minute video on their cell phone of Norman Pearson and a 13-year-old girl engaged in sexual acts. According to court documents, Pearson knowingly recorded the abuse on a phone that did not belong to him.
  

• Black sentenced to 50 years in prison for rape of woman in Elizabeth
  A man released in 2008 after serving 17 years on a rape conviction is now likely to spend the rest of his life in prison after he was sentenced to 50 years for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman in Elizabeth in 2009. Donald Andrews, 43, must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence — or more than 42 years — before he is eligible for parole, according to the terms imposed Friday by state Superior Court Judge Stuart Peim.
  

• Accidental juror leads to mistrial in Miami-Dade rape case
  The strange legal saga ended when the judge declared a mistrial. Baxter Tisdale, however, won’t be getting a new shot at freedom. Instead, he accepted a plea deal. Nine years in prison. He had faced up to 22 years behind bars if convicted of armed sexual battery. “We don’t want the victims to have to testify in a new trial,” said Miami-Dade prosecutor Natalie Snyder. “They want to put this behind them.” Tisdale, 51, was arrested last year after Miami-Dade police cold-case detectives linked him through DNA to the separate rapes of two women, who were attacked by a knife-wielding intruder in the Southridge neighborhood. After they were shown photo lineups, the women recalled Tisdale from the neighborhood.
  

• Greensboro black faces charges of rape, statutory rape
  Bond was set today at $500,000 for a man accused of having sex with a girl younger than 13, according to arrest warrants. Police arrested Demetrius Donte Keitt, 30, of 1701 16th St., Greensboro, in connection with incidents in July and August, according to the warrants. Keitt was charged with first-degree rape, indecent liberties with a child and statutory rape, according to online records.
  

• Black arraigned after police say he raped and robbed a young mother in Warren
  WARREN, Mich. - An 18-year-old man has been arraigned after police say he raped and robbed a young mother after she got off the bus Wednesday night on Van Dyke. Naqunn Blount is facing several charges including First Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct, Robbery and Identity Theft. He is being held on $750,000 bond. Investigators say the 26-year-old woman was on her way to pick up her two-year-old son when she heard someone right behind her. When she turned around, she was attacked. "He grabs her by the hair from behind, she has a cut mark across her throat. He drags her into an alley." That's where police say the young mother was raped.
  

• Black gets 30 years for rape
  Two years after he raped a woman near Pioneer Park, Major Thomas was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison. Thomas, 58, was found guilty in August during a trial in the sexual battery incident dating back to Sept. 24, 2011. The victim was walking home near the park when Thomas stopped her, grabbed her arm and threatened to hurt her is she would not go with him. Thomas took her outside a vacant building in the 900 block of Florida Avenue, where there were sheets and bedding on the ground. After he raped her, the victim was able to run away.
  

• UK: Sami Tesfay Raped 12-Year-Old He Groomed Online
  A man has been detained indefinitely under the Mental Health Act after subjecting a 12-year-old girl to a horrific sexual attack, Scotland Yard said. Sami Tesfay, 22, groomed his victim on a social networking site before meeting her in person and persuading her to come home with him. He then raped the young girl in a stairwell on January 23. Tesfay, of Lewisham, south east London, has a history of "beguiling" vulnerable youngsters and gaining their trust, police said. He was found guilty of rape in July and was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court on September 20, Scotland Yard said. - (UK)
  

• Somali Migrant Community in U.S. Fears New Wave of Stigma After Kenya Attack
  In an investigation that has unfolded since 2007, federal authorities concluded that more than 20 young men from Minnesota left for Somalia to join the Shabab, a Somali Islamist group that has been deemed a terrorist organization and linked to suicide bombings.

• Rape is an African problem - ... more than a quarter of South African men — 27,6% – admitted that they had committed rape. Almost half of those men had raped two or three women or girls. One in 13 had raped at least 10 victims.

• Hispanic Santa Clara Teacher Hugo Cortes Guzman Accused Of Statutory Rape, Condoms Found In Class
  Hugo Cortes Guzman, a Santa Clara High School teacher and track coach appeared in Superior Court in San Jose Thursday on charges of having sex with a female student after police found a mattress, condoms and girl’s underwear inside his classroom.
  
  
• Two Hispanics charged with murder in Petaluma murder linked to Marin kidnap-rape convict
  Twenty-five years after a Vallejo woman was found dead in a livestock trough near Petaluma, two men have been charged with her murder, including one serving time for kidnap and rape in Marin County. DNA evidence linked Fausto Chavez, 49, and convicted Marin kidnapper-rapist Josafat "Jose" Presencion, 47, to the unsolved death of 26-year-old Wynetta S. Davis.
  

• 78 killed in deadliest attack on Christians in Pakistan

• Greek police arrest leader, lawmakers of far-right Golden Dawn
  Arrests mark biggest crackdown against elected political party since fall of junta. Golden Dawn rose from obscurity to enter parliament last year after promising to mine Greece's borders to prevent illegal immigrants from entering.

• Report: NSA tracks social ties on Facebook
• N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens

• Hundreds look on as Confederate battle flag rises in a clearing along I-95 south of Richmond
  A group called the Virginia Flaggers sponsored the flag-raising. They say it was intended to honor the South’s war dead, not offend.
• Confederate Flag Banned from Bee County's Western Week Festival - (Confederacy)

Black London cycle attacker 'could strike again, victim warns
The victim of a random unprovoked attack in south-east London, who was left with serious head injuries, has warned the man could strike again. Suzanne Ratajova was on her way home on Norwood Road, in Herne Hill, at around 22:50 GMT on 29 February 2012 when she was attacked by a man on a bicycle. He suddenly veered on to the pavement and punched her repeatedly on the head before hitting another man. Ms Ratajova, 36, warned: "He might kill someone one day." The attacks seem to have "no motive", police said, describing the suspect as a black man who was wearing a long dark coat and riding a mountain bike. - (Black-on-white) - (UK)

• My skull was broken in random attack and now every day is a struggle, says victim punched by cyclist

Update: Two black suspects in robbery homicide of White man arrested - Police say both men have confessed
TACOMA, Wash. — Detectives say they’ve captured two suspects wanted in the murder of 54-year-old Larry Howse in Tacoma. According to a Tacoma Police spokesperson, both men confessed to robbing and shooting Howse in August. - (Black-on-white) (names and mugshots of suspects not yet released by Tacoma PD)

• Custody battle believed to be cause of deadly Gilmer shooting
  Cheyenne was found by Shepherd's wife last night as she lay in the parking lot. She and Shepherd have a child together, but are currently separated. At halftime, Shepherd left his wife to go to the parking lot and hand over his 3-year-old son to Cheyenne. Witnesses say that an argument occurred between the victim, Cheyenne Green, and Shepherd regarding who had rights to the child.

• Arrests made in elderly veteran attack
  EAST POINT, Ga. — A woman has turned herself in to police in the case of an elderly veteran attacked in East Point earlier this week. Officers are still searching for another suspect, who police say is armed and dangerous. The second suspect, 22-year-old Iesha Washington, turned herself in Thursday night. But investigators said she's not cooperating at all. There is one more suspect still on the run, Ricky Wilcoxson, and cops said his past proves he's very dangerous. Washington and Dexter Ware have both turned themselves in.

• Elderly man beaten, robbed at Jewish Newark cemetery by two blacks
  One frail 75-year-old man, defenseless against two young men, who not only beat him mercilessly, they then stole his car, which police have recovered. They are combing it for evidence that may lead to the attackers. "We're looking for two black males, oval face, brown and black jacket," police said.
  

• Obama Commits $320 Million to Aid Bankrupt Detroit
• Police: Body parts found in suburban Detroit sewer - (Drudge link)
• Ref: Detroit demographics: As of the 2010 Census, the racial composition of the city was: 82.7% Black or African American;

UK: Two (black African Muslim terrorists) plead not guilty to Lee Rigby murder in Woolwich
Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, denied the charges at the Old Bailey. - (Black-on-white) - (UK)

• We warned you about him... you ignored us: Kenya says Britain was told of 'dangerous radical' in 2010
  

Nigerian Faces Terror Charges in NY Court
A Nigerian defendant is set to appear in a U.S. court to face terrorism charges. Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi was brought to the U.S. earlier this year. A federal indictment accuses him of providing support to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. He's to be arraigned Friday in federal court in Brooklyn. Court papers allege Babafemi traveled to Yemen with other members of the al-Qaida group. Authorities say he was given $8,600 to return to Nigeria and recruit English speakers to radicalize others.

• 'Eyes gouged out, bodies hanging from hooks, and fingers removed with pliers':
  Horrific claims of torture emerge as soldiers reveal gory Kenyan mall massacre details - (Drudge link)

• Audit: Army Paid $16M to Deserters, AWOL Soldiers
• NSA: Some used spying power to snoop on lovers

• Ku Klux Klan group gets Gettysburg battlefield permit

• In Memory of Zoa (Cutler) White

• One witness said: "What I know for sure is at least several fingers were amputated which they took on ice."
  21-year-old student - The woman had reportedly refused to give a homeless man money

Half-Naked Hispanic Attacked Woman While Masturbating
Fontana police say a man who is believed to have attacked a woman on a city street while masturbating and wearing only a shirt may have committed similar offenses. The suspect, later identified as Eduardo Diaz-Perez, is accused of approaching a 48-year-old woman who was walking in a residential neighborhood with her granddaughter in a stroller. Diaz-Perez, a 23-year-old Fontana man, allegedly drove up the victim at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. He left his car wearing only a shirt and exposed himself to the victim. The victim pushed her granddaughter’s stroller behind her to protect the child as Diaz-Perez allegedly grabbed the woman’s arm and started to pull her to him.

• At Kenya's request, Interpol issues alert for 'White Widow'

• Sheriff had denied gun permit to Greenville shooting suspect - 06-24-2013
  The four shooting victims were identified Monday as Timothy Edwards, 64, Vernon Leggett, 69, and Haywood Whichard Jr., 50, all of Greenville, and Carroll Oakes, 70, of Grifton.

• Update: Suspect sought in man's murder may be with 3-year-old son

• Balloon leads to shooting in Clarksville, 2 suspects in custody - Sep 26, 2012
• Third person charged in shooting over balloon - Jan 10, 2013
• Plea deal could jail suspects in shooting over balloon 1 year - Jul 18, 2013

• Cops: Teen pauses attack on 70-year-old man to celebrate
  Romeo Williams has been charged with second-degree assault after Saturday morning's beating of Jim Gifford as he walked across the parking lot outside a 7-Eleven store. Fowler says Williams hit Gifford in the face, knocking him unconscious. Police say Williams then entered the store and celebrated by taking off his hat and holding it up in the air and smiling before going back outside to beat and kick Gifford.
• Victim Jim Gifford remained in critical condition on Sunday after he was assaulted by a group of "five to six" men
• 70-year-old man suffers serious injuries after group attack by a group of five or six black males

• 80-year-old man beaten in attempted carjacking by blacks - (Drudge link)

• FBI Releases Footage of black Navy Yard Shooter - (Drudge link)

• Woman Dragged Across Pleasant Hill Parking Lot During Purse Snatching by Black
  PLEASANT HILL, CA - A woman was briefly dragged across a Pleasant Hill parking lot Tuesday afternoon when she attempted to grab onto her purse as it was being stolen, police said. Police said the suspect who snatched the woman’s purse is described as a black man in his early 20s who is roughly 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall with a medium build and hair braided into cornrows.
  
  
• Mother with baby robbed outside Chico grocery store by black
  CHICO, CA — A woman holding her child was reportedly robbed at knife point at the Safeway parking lot Sunday afternoon. The 22-year-old woman was with her 1-year-old when a male approached her at about 2:30 p.m. at the store on 1016 W. Sacramento Ave., according to a Chico Police Department press release. The man, who was holding a knife near his waistband, demanded her wallet, credit cards and cash. The woman, whose name was not released, handed over an undisclosed amount of money and credit cards before the suspect ran away through the parking lot, according to CPD. She described the suspect as a black male between 16 and 22 years old, about 5-feet-2-inches tall, average build with brown eyes. He was reportedly wearing an oversized black shirt and a dark green beanie.
  

• “Republic Of New Afrika” Arrives In Jackson, Mississippi

• Ghana: Black Sodomy Pastor In Court - After series of test, the innocent boy was confirmed to be HIV/AIDS positive.

• Some other recent black rapes in the news
• NH police investigate early morning sexual assault - The suspect, described as a thin black man...
• Smyrna (Black) Man Arrested for Child Rape - Derek Feamster
• Fair Park rape suspect Dixson charged with fifth sexual assault - Van Dralen Dixson
• Cops hunting (black) livery driver who ‘raped’ passenger

• French minister Valls defends call for Roma expulsions
  French Interior Minister Manuel Valls says he stands by remarks calling for the country's Roma (Gypsies) to be expelled. He said few Roma could ever integrate into French society and "the majority" should be sent "back to the borders".

• US citizen Alwar Pourya arrested in Romania gets 25-year prison sentence in NY Taliban case

Police: Asian Gunman Sang Ho Kim fires inside NY business, killing 1, wounding 1; getaway leads to mall lockdown
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A disgruntled vendor walked into a suburban light fixture company where he had done business and opened fire Wednesday, killing one employee, wounding another person and leading to the lockdown of a nearby mall, police said. The gunman fled in a white SUV toward the Roosevelt Field mall in Garden City but didn’t go there, Nassau County police Chief Steven Skrynecki said. Schools and businesses also were locked down in the area, 30 miles east of New York City. Skrynecki said authorities were hunting for a 63-year-old man named Sang Ho Kim but didn’t think he was on a “random shooting rampage.”

• Chinese doctors grow new nose on man's forehead
• Asia to have most millionaires: survey
  

• Sagging Interstate 43 bridge in Green Bay shut down
• Costello Shares Concerns on Crumbling Infrastructure
• Commission Says 16 Philly-Area Bridges Are in Need of Repair
• Hundreds of Ohio bridges might fail
• U.S. Bridges: Many Old, Risky and Rundown

• Northern California: Modoc County joins Siskiyou in state of Jefferson bid for secession - (Drudge link)

• Who pulled the trigger? The black suspect says his white? or light-skinned black girlfriend shot Rite Aid manager Jason Scott McClay
  Wiggins and Pultro were described as “friends” by a police source.
  
• Police Arrest Second Suspect In Pharmacy Robbery, Murder

• Ref: $20,000 reward in killing of Rite Aid manager in Chester, Pa by interracial couple
  CHESTER, Pa. - -- A $20,000 reward is being offered after the manager of a Rite Aid was shot dead in Chester. It happened after 10:00 p.m. Thursday at Rite Aid at the intersection of 9th and Highland. The two suspects were caught on surveillance: a woman wearing a red hoodie with white stripes down the sleeves, blue jeans and gray sneakers; and a man wearing a white V-neck shirt over a black long-sleeve top, rolled up blue jeans and black boots. Police say the couple walked into the store and got into some kind of argument with the manager, identified as Jason Scott McClay. One of the suspects then shot McClay in the head. Police arrived to find him dead at the scene.

• Ref: VINELINK: Offender Name: CHRISTOPHER A ENNIS Offender ID: 2091237 Date of Birth: 09/02/1986 Age: 27 Race: African American Gender: Male

• Ref: Search for suspect 4 years after Deanna Lieber killed by stray bullet

List of 12 Navy Yard Shooting Victims
— Michael Arnold, 59 — Martin Bodrog, 54 — Arthur Daniels, 51 — Sylvia Frasier, 53 — Kathy Gaarde, 62 — John Roger Johnson, 73 — Frank Kohler, 50 — Mary Francis Knight, 51 — Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46 — Vishnu Pandit, 61 — Gerald L. Read, 58 — Richard Michael Ridgell, 52

• Update: Loving mother and hard-working grandfather of nine among 12 workers killed in Navy Yard massacre
  as doctors describe terrible injuries of wounded
• Shooting victims came from all walks of life
  
• Families, Neighbors Remember Navy Yard Victims
  
• 'A hole that just will never be filled': Portraits of the Navy Yard victims
  
• Washington Navy Yard shooting victims' details emerge