The mother of a hospitalized Alabama teen says her son was the victim of a hate crime — attacked because of his pro-police viewpoints. Brian Ogle, 17, a student at Sylacauga High School, was left in critical condition with a cracked skull, as well as trauma to the brain following the recent attack, which occurred Friday in a parking lot. Ogle was beaten by several individuals, police said. His mother Brandi Allen called the attack a hate crime in an interview with local station ABC 33/40. “I want to see them in jail, this most certainly is a race issue, it’s a hate crime.” Allen said.Ogle had been posting and sharing pro-police content on his Facebook page amid the ongoing national tensions about race and police. His mother believes this is what led to his attack.

While police have identified and interviewed persons of interest in the case, no motive has been released — and no charges have been filed.

Starting Monday, additional police will be patroling the city’s high school and middle school, Sylacauga County Police said in a statement.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

ALBANY — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has ordered Donald Trump’s charity foundation to stop raising money in New York.

In a “Notice of Violation” sent Friday, Schneiderman’s office claimed the Donald J. Trump Foundation was not properly registered as a charity and ordered it to cease soliciting money from donors in the state.

“The failure immediately to discontinue solicitation and to file information and reports … with the (AG’s) Charities Bureau shall be deemed to be a continuing fraud upon the people of the state of New York,” wrote James Sheehan, the chief of the charities bureau.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

LAHORE, Pakistan — For two months, over the thunder of machines at the steel mill, the men taunted Mubeen Rajhu about his sister. Even now, they laugh at how easy it was to make him lose his temper. Some people had seen Tasleem in their Lahore slum with a Christian man. She was 18, a good Muslim girl, out in public with a man. Even though the man had converted to Islam out of love for her, this couldn’t be allowed.

“Some guys got to know that his sister was having a relationship,” says Ali Raza, a co-worker at the mill. “They would say: ‘Can’t you do anything? What is the matter with you? You are not a man.”’ Raza can barely contain a smile as he talks about the hours spent needling Rajhu.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A 16-year-old Nebraska girl killed her prematurely born baby early Friday by throwing the infant out a second-floor window minutes after going into labor, authorities said.

Cops and emergency personnel responded to an Omaha apartment complex around 4 a.m. after receiving multiple calls about an infant tossed from a window, police said in a statement. Once they arrived, emergency responders discovered an adult female performing CPR on a lifeless infant in the apartment complex parking lot. The baby was rushed into an ambulance, but died on the way to an area hospital. The disheveled would-be mother was also taken to the hospital.

Interviews with the teen revealed that she had been asleep and alone in her room when she unexpectedly went into labor. In a fit of panic, the girl threw the infant out of her window before telling her mother what had happened.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A trial has been set for the 14-year-old Virginia boy charged with stealing a 65-cent carton of milk. Ryan Turk was slapped with petit larceny for swiping the drink from the Graham Park Middle School cafeteria, even though he was enrolled in his former school’s free lunch program. Ryan, who is now a high school freshman, was also charged with disorderly conduct when he refused to go to the principal’s office after the incident. The teen turned down an offer of nonjudicial punishment through a diversion program, opting to to go through a criminal trial instead in November, according to the Washington Post. His family chose to go to trial to prove the boy’s innocence:(nydailynews.com)…[+]

KINGSTON, Jamaica — One of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in recent history weakened a little on Saturday as it roared across the Caribbean on a course that still puts Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba in the path of potentially devastating winds and rain.

Matthew briefly reached the top hurricane classification, Category 5, and was the strongest Atlantic hurricane since Felix in 2007. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said its winds had slipped to a still-devastating 155 mph (250 kph) and it was expected to reach the eastern part of Jamaica on Monday. Jamaicans began clearing out store shelves as they stocked up emergency supplies and Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday called an urgent meeting of Parliament to discuss preparations for the storm.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Three Florida students were suspended after showing up to their high school wearing Ku Klux Klan costumes on Thursday. Some initially believed the students were wearing ghost costumes as part of Spirit Week at Wiregrass Ranch High School, but that was not the case, according to WFTS. “Usually ghosts don’t have pointed hoods,” Pasco County Superintendent Kurt Browning told the station. The students were not identified, but officials told the station that two of them are Hispanic and the other is Middle Eastern.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

The body of a 13-year-old North Carolina girl who vanished in 2011 was found this week — two years after her adoptive parents were convicted of tax fraud related to the child’s disappearance. The skeletal remains found Tuesday in South Carolina were positively identified as Erica Parsons by the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office, officials said Thursday. It was adoptive father Sandy Parsons, who was also her uncle, who told investigators where to find Erica, the Charlotte Observer reported. “It’s been a long hard five years not knowing where she was,” aunt Teresa Goodman told WSOC.

Erica lived with Sandy and Casey Parsons in Rowan County from 2000 until her disappearance. She wasn’t reported missing until 2013. The couple claimed Erica went to live in Asheville with a woman they believed to be her biological grandmother, who never turned up. They repeatedly insisted this was the case, and even went on national TV with “Dr. Phil” McGraw in 2013. The episode was titled “Missing or Murdered: Where is 15-Year-Old Erica?”(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A 26-year-old woman was stabbed to death inside her Queens apartment by her roommate, police said Thursday. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, was knifed in the neck, back and arm inside her home on Stanhope St. near Onderdonk Ave. in Ridgewood about 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. Police believe her 26-year-old roommate killed her during an argument — and then stabbed himself in the leg. Paramedics rushed the woman to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center but she could not be saved, officials said.Her roommate was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he is in police custody and expected to survive, according to cops. Charges against him are pending. The victim and her attacker were roommates but not romantically involved, police said.(Nydailynews.com)…[+]

The mother of a battered 6-year-old Harlem boy told investigators she watched her hulking boyfriend beat her son with a wooden broomstick and hang him by his T-shirt from a hook on the bathroom door. Then she placed her dead son on a bed and rested and read the Bible.

The infuriating and sickening details of little Zymere Perkins’ final moments emerged as city investigators launched a probe Wednesday into his death — trying to determine whether a series of past child-care failures sealed his tragic fate.

The Department of Investigation demanded the documents in five previous ACS probes of abuse involving Zymere’s mom after Mayor de Blasio admitted the system he had set out to reform had failed.The child’s death Monday came two years after de Blasio vowed to reform the city’s Administration for Children’s Services and four months after a highly critical DOI assessment of the troubled agency.(nydailynews.com)…[+]