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A former North Carolina teacher claims he was fired in February after parents complained about him teaching the book "Dear Martin." A Charlotte, North Carolina, teacher is suing the charter school he used to work at after he claims he was fired after parents allegedly complained about him teaching a fictional book involving a racially profiled Black teen. Markayle Gray, a former English teach er at Charlotte Secondary School, claims in a civil lawsuit that was filed on Wednesday that he was terminated from his position as a 7th and 8th-grade teach er on Feb. 2 following backlash from parents over his teach ing of the 2017 young adult novel "Dear Martin." The 2017 New York Times bestselling novel by Nic Stone follows the story of a Black teenager who was thrown to the ground and handcuffed during an encounter with police. The Ivy League-bound teen writes 10 imaginary letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. imagining what the civil rights leader would have done in his p...

Jack Teixeira, the member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard accused of leaking classified documents online, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Jack Teixeira, the member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard accused of leaking classified documents online, has been indicted by a federal grand jury. He is facing six counts of willful retention and transmission of classified information relation to the national defense, according to the Justice Department. Teixeira, 21, is accused of abusing his security clearance to take classified documents and post them on social media sites, according to the Department of Justice. Teixeira revealed the kinds of military hardware the U.S. was prepared to deliver to Ukraine to assist in its defense of Russia’s invasion and put the supply line in potential jeopardy, the indictment said. MORE: Jack Teixeira: What we know about document leak suspect "The unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified information jeopard...

The men also allegedly vandalized the homes of one of the reporter's parents on two occasions, the U.S. attorney's office said. Three men have been charged with a conspiracy to harass and intimidate two New Hampshire Public Radio journalists in retaliation for a story the reporters were covering, federal authorities said. On three separate occasions between April and May 2022, Tucker Cockerline, 32, Michael Waselchuck, 35, and Keenan Saniatan, 36, allegedly threw rocks and bricks and spray-painted the homes of the two journalists after they started reporting on an alleged sexual assault by an unnamed New Hampshire businessman, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office from the District of Massachusetts. The suspects also allegedly vandalized the homes of one of the reporter's parents on two other occasions, the U.S. attorney's office said. In this image released by the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts, a suspect is shown in Hampst...

A former OceanGate employee contends he was fired for raising concerns. A former employee of OceanGate alleged in a 2018 counterclaim lawsuit that he was fired for raising concerns about quality control and testing of potential flaws in the same experimental submersible that went missing this week with its crew and passengers on an underwater tourist venture to see the wreck of the Titanic. David Lochridge, an engineer and submarine pilot, claimed in his counterclaim against OceanGate that he was hired in 2015 by the Everett, Washington, company to ensure the safety of all crew and clients during the submersible and surface operations of the vessel called Titan. But when he expressed concerns about the design and testing of the minisub's hull, he said he was terminated by the company. OceanGate had initially sued Lochridge alleging, among other things, breach of contract, fraud, and misappropriation of trade secrets – all claims he denied. This undated image courtesy of OceanGa...

The husband of a woman who was found dead by the side of a road last month has been arrested for the alleged hit-and-run murder of his wife. The husband of a woman who was found dead by the side of a road last month has been arrest ed for the alleged hit-and-run murder of his wife, police say. The body of Angela Marie McClelland, a 49-year-old woman from Fort Ripley, Minnesota -- approximately 110 miles northwest of Minneapolis -- was found in the early hours of Sunday, June 25, near the intersection of Legend Road and Killian Road in Fort Ripley after having “died as a result of being struck by a vehicle,” according to the Crow Wing County Sheriff’s Department. MORE: 'Father was killing everyone': 3 young brothers shot and killed, mother injured in shooting Sheriff’s investigators along with the State Patrol spent the past two weeks following up on leads before finally arrest ing her husband, 47-year-old Tony James McClelland, for her alleged vehicular homicide. “On July 1...

Authorities in Pennsylvania are searching for two suspects after an alleged attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old took place at the Willow Grove Mall. Authorities in Pennsylvania are searching for two suspects after an alleged attempted kidnapping of a 14-year-old took place at the Willow Grove Mall in Montgomery County Wednesday evening. The Abington Township Police Department received a call for an attempted child abduction at about 7 p.m. Wednesday, according to a press release. The victim, a 14-year-old girl, told police she was riding down an escalator of the mall when she was confronted by an adult male at the bottom. The man, who identified himself to her as "Alex," asked her to walk with him. The child then informed him that she was underage. When she attempted to step away from him, the man grabbed her arm and restrained her, forcibly taking her through the mall, Abington police said. The Abington Township Police Department released several photos of two men who all...

Two Black men who were allegedly tortured and assaulted in an incident by five Rankin County, Mississippi, deputies and one Richland police officer spoke out Thursday. The two Black men who were allegedly tortured and assault ed in an incident by five Rankin County, Mississippi, deputies and one Richland police officer, spoke out Thursday for the first time about the January interaction they say left one of them shot in the mouth. Michael Jenkins, 32, and Eddie Parker, 35, were at their residence on Jan. 24 when they say five Rankin County deputies and one Richland Police Department officer entered without a warrant to conduct a drug raid. The deputies and officer beat the men, threw eggs at them and shocked them with Tasers for roughly 90 minutes while handcuffed, according to the lawsuit filed by the men last month in collaboration with Black Lawyers for Justice. The officers also attempted to sexually assault the men with a sex toy before making them shower together before Jenkins...

A suspect police say was trying to hit people with his truck in a Boulder, Colorado, park Tuesday morning has been charged with attempted murder. A suspect police say was trying to hit people with his truck in a Boulder, Colorado, park Tuesday morning has been charged with attempted murder. Boulder 911 received its first emergency call at around 6:26 a.m. CT, with the caller reporting that someone was driving through Boulder’s Central Park trying to run people over, police said at a news conference on Tuesday afternoon. Officers arrived on the scene in about a minute, but the truck was gone. In this handout photo, provided by Boulder Police Department, a suspect is seen allegedly trying to run people down in Boulder's Central Park in Colo. on Sept. 19, 2023. Boulder Police/Twitter MORE: New details in F-35 'mishap' as mystery remains about how jet was lost Following a search involving officers and the police department’s drone team, the vehicle was eventually located in a ...

The DOJ has charged an IRS tax consultant with allegedly leaking private tax information about wealthy individuals. The Justice Department announced on Friday charges against a Washington, D.C., IRS consultant for allegedly leaking tax information associated with former President Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy individuals to two separate news organizations. 38-year-old Charles Littlejohn was charged via a criminal information with one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information -- indicating he is likely set to plead guilty to the charge. The criminal information notes that while he worked at the IRS as a government contractor, he stole information associated with an unnamed high-ranking government official and disclosed it to a news organization. He also stole tax information from "thousands of the nation's wealth iest individuals and disclosed that information to a separate news organization," the Justice Department says. I...