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The attorney of the woman who tackled and falsely accused the 14-year-old son of jazz musician Keyon Harrold of stealing her iPhone that she left in an Uber said Tuesday that the incident “wasn’t a race-related issue.” In a phone call, attorney Sharon Ghatan, who is representing 22-year-old Miya Ponsetto in an unrelated case, confirmed […]

LGBTQ North Carolinians in unmarried, dating relationships must have the same access to domestic violence protections as people in heterosexual relationships, according to a recent North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling. The state was the last in the country to bar same-sex couples from some of the stronger legal protections from domestic violence, according to […]

Former Atlanta police chief Erika Shields will be leading the Louisville Metro Police Department, which was thrust into the national spotlight last year following the death of Breonna Taylor. “I am honored to be selected for this important position at this important time,” Shields said in a statement Wednesday. “I recognize that there is a […]

In May 2018, Uber driver Latonya Young’s passenger changed her life. Chatting with Kevin Esch after picking him up from an Atlanta United soccer game, the single mom told him she was driving an Uber to pay off her electric bill, and to save enough money to go back to school. He told her to […]

City public works employees found Daphne in Blue Slide Park after a passerby alerted them that the puppy had been spotted. They brought her to the Zone 4 police station, and she was reunited with her owner. “Pittsburgh police appreciate the assistance. There are no arrests at this time,” the Public Safety Department said. Daphne’s […]

For the past seven years, students from the Palma School in Salinas, California have been part of a book club at an unlikely place—Soledad State Prison. Mia Mirassou and Jim Micheletti founded the book club called “Exercises In Empathy.” Micheletti told CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca that students would go into the prison afraid but […]

Self-defense, an essential tool for women living in Katanga, is a concept Hellen Baleke knows very well. In this slum — one of the largest in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city — boxing gives women the opportunity to learn a new skill and keeps them off the streets. “You have to fight if you want to […]