Witnesses in the upcoming George Zimmerman murder trial will not be permitted to testify anonymously, judge Debra Nelson ruled on Thursday, less than a week before the start of the highly-scrutinized murder trial.
18-year-old University of Alabama basketball player Devonta Pollard, and six other people were indicted on federal charges they conspired to kidnap 6-year-old Jashayla Hopson, a young girl from an Mississippi elementary school. Prosecutors said that Pollard's mother, Jesse Mae, led a scheme to kidnap the girl to pressure the child's mother in a land dispute, news reports said. Authorities said at one point kidnappers demanded a ransom set at $50,000.
On April 6, Balaal Hollings, a Detroit high school honor student, football star and the student council and class president, was shot in the head at a birthday party. Two months later, Hollings, surprisingly showed up at his gradation with his classmates.
Melissa Lawrence, a Rhode Island woman, has been charged with assault after she threw a rock, waved a baseball bat and urged her dogs to attack a news crew reporting on a kindergarten party shooting.
