- Local News

via Wkyc: A month after Aniya Day-Garrett’s mother and her boyfriend were convicted of killing her, the little girl’s father has filed a lawsuit against multiple individuals from the Cuyahoga County Division of Children and Family Services along with two daycares she attended. The attorney for Mickhal Garrett said the initial convictions only told part of the story, […]

- Local News

via News5: The parents of Alianna DeFreeze—the 14-year-old girl who was lured away from a bus stop by a convicted sex offender and later found dead inside an abandoned home— have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The lawsuit names the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, E Prep and Village Prep Woodland Hills, the City of Cleveland, […]

National

via CNN: Tennis star Venus Williams has reached a settlement in the wrongful death suit centered around a fatal car accident, according to court documents. The accident, in which the other driver’s Hyundai Accent crashed into Williams’ Toyota Sequoia, resulted in the death of Jerome Barson two weeks later. His wife, Linda, was driving and […]

National

via Joy105: The judge in Venus Williams’ wrongful death lawsuit has issued an order allowing the family of Jerome Barson, who died in a car crash involving the tennis star last summer, to subpoena Williams’ phone records. The subpoenaed records could reveal if Williams was distracted talking on the phone or texting at the time of the […]

National

getty image: Michael Brown‘s parents have very quietly settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the city of Ferguson, Missouri for a reported $3 million. The lawsuit has apparently flown under the radar but has not been settled in the Brown’s favor. A federal judge on Tuesday approved a secret civil settlement of the wrongful-death […]

News One Exclusives

The parents of Kendrick Johnson, Attorney Benjamin Crump and community activist Marcus Coleman joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss a new piece of legislation…