ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands — A woman is facing possible criminal charges for allegedly driving with her newborn baby in her handbag. Officers reportedly pulled the woman over for a routine traffic stop Tuesday. While asking for the woman’s license, the officer heard a baby crying but could not see one, The Associated Press reported. When he inquired about a baby, the woman allegedly unzipped a purse and revealed a tiny newborn.Police... 

A mother has been charged with cruelty towards a child and neglect after she put a plastic bag over her five-month-old’s head and sent the photo to her husband via text message for ‘a joke’. Courtney Shanvice McBride, 20, from Davie, Florida, was arrested on April 1 after her husband alerted a relative when he received the picture of the toddler in a plastic-lined rubbish container with a plastic bag over her head. The baby’s... 

The U.N. ambassador from the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines was briefly arrested and handcuffed by a New York police officer Wednesday for alleged disorderly conduct after he walked through a barricade to get into his office building. Ambassador Camillo Gonsalves told The Associated Press that he was returning to his office after lunch and stepped out of his official car, through a barricade in front of the building — as... 

This weekend we reported that The New Black Panther Party offered $10,000 for the capture of Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman. However the leader of the New Black Panther Party, Hashim Nzinga, was arrested in Atlanta yesterday. A leader of the New Black Panther Party who put a bounty on the head of the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin has landed behind bars on a weapons charge. Hashim Nzinga, 49, was arrested... 

Brown, 43, was pulled over in Los Angeles’ Reseda neighborhood about 12:20 p.m., when cops spotted him driving while talking on a cell phone without using a hands-free device, the Los Angeles Times reports. That’s been illegal in California since 2009, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Officers conducted a field sobriety test, which Brown allegedly failed, police said. So what punishments could Brown possibly... 

A 30-year-old mother is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old after his mother discovered a bite mark on his neck. Temeeca Lashae Watt of Central, South Carolina allegedly had sex with the boy during a sleep over at her home on March 16 because her son and the boy were friends. The next day she allegedly performed a second sex act on the teen on the side of the road while driving to a convenience store. On his return home, his mother noticed the... 

A co-founder for Invisible Children was detained in Pacific Beach on Thursday for being drunk in public and masturbating, according to the San Diego Police Department. Jason Russell, 33, was allegedly found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something, according to the SDPD. He was detained at the intersection of Ingraham Street and Riviera Road. An SDPD spokesperson said the man detained was acting... 

A mother dished out her version of tough love after her teenage daughter was arrested for shoplifting. Danaka Walker forced the 13-year-old to walk around with a T-shirt that read: ‘Hide your money. Hide your clothes. Hide everything. Cuz I’m A Thief.’ She had the T-shirt made after her daughter Aaroneisha Celestin was released from a juvenile detention centre in New Orleans, Louisiana. The teen has to wear the bright green shirt with... 

Police in Florida were able to foil a planned ‘Project X party after a teen posted a video about the bash on YouTube. Christopher Dade, 18, was arrested before the ‘party of a lifetime’, scheduled to kick off on Monday night, was able to take place. The 18-year-old even called his bash ‘Project X’ in the video copycat of the wild party in the Hollywood movie. ‘Project X, yeah’ he is heard saying on the YouTube video. Police... 

A Florida couple is accused of forcing a 13-year-old boy to kneel down for nine hours a day for 10 days in a row as a punishment for being bad at school, police said. Albert Cusson, 57, and his wife Nancy, 47, from Lakeland, Fla., were jailed on child abuse charges Thursday after allegedly forcing the teen to kneel on a hard bathroom floor with his hands behind his back from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day and beating him with a stick if he moved, the...