Friends and actors Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski were arrested along with hundreds of other women in Washington, DC on Thursday during a protest over Brett Kavanaugh, who sure looks like he will be confirmed to the Supreme Court this weekend.
Harvey Weinstein is expected to be arrested tomorrow in Manhattan, according to the New York Times and the New York Post, after authorities have been investigating the producer for sexual assault.
Under Donald Trump’s new administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have felt empowered to make arrests in raids at locations like homeless shelters and courthouses. Some women are now feeling pressure to choose between what they fear most: arrest or abuse.
Thirteen members of the International Women’s Day Strike were arrested outside of Trump Tower in Manhattan this earlier this afternoon, according to the NYPD.
The well-publicized arrest of Trump counterterrorism advisor Sebastian Gorka last year for attempting to carry a 9 mm pistol through a TSA checkpoint at Reagan National Airport was not the first time the self-described “irregular warfare strategist” ran afoul of firearms laws at an airport, The Slot has learned.…
A journalist is being charged with criminal trespass and “engaging in a riot” while covering the latest arrests near the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. Jenni Monet, 40, told the Los Angeles Times she clearly identified herself as a journalist and was still arrested, then held with other women arrestees for…
Some 230 people are being charged with felony rioting after being arrested in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day. It’s an extremely severe charge that a class-action lawsuit alleges was applied indiscriminately to a huge group of people, many of whom weren’t “rioting” at all. We’ve spoken to one of the…
On a Saturday evening last January, Gynnya McMillen was staying at her mother’s apartment complex in Shelbyville, a city of 15,000 in northern Kentucky. Gynnya, 16, lived in foster care but was allowed weekend visits with her mother, Michelle McMillen, since their long-strained relationship had begun to improve. That…
A young woman was arrested at a bar in Amherst, Massachusetts early Thursday morning for allegedly interfering when police were called to the scene—to investigate an earlier incident which involved one of her friends slapping the doorman with a slice of pizza, after he refused to take it in lieu of an I.D.
After a week of violence, protests every where were heated this weekend with over 300 reported arrests, most of them in St. Paul and Baton Rouge.
A L.A. judge has signed an arrest warrant for Kim Richards after the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star failed to turn in documentation that proved she’d been attending her court-ordered AA meetings.
Socialite Tinsley Mortimer, 40, whose title as a Manhattan’s It-iest It Girl disintegrated along with the market in 2008, was arrested for trespassing on Saturday night in Palm Beach, Florida.
In early March, an unfortunate soul put the pedal to the metal so as to reach his house before pooping his pants. But the fates were not on his side: arrested for speeding, the gentleman was left with no recourse but to take a dump in the police car as he was taken to jail.
Donald Fagen, the lead singer and co-founder of Steely Dan, was arrested in New York City on Monday night after allegedly pushing his wife, singer/songwriter Libby Titus, into a marble window frame and knocking her to the floor. He has been charged with assault in the third degree and harassment.
Early in the morning on October 28, transit officers on an A train at Columbus Circle in Manhattan were about to write 43-year-old Gregory White a ticket for the disorderly-conduct offense of taking up more than one subway seat. When they went to run his name through the system, they discovered that White was wanted…
According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, Gilbert Phelps was pulled over for speeding at around 2 a.m. last Thursday, and was taken into custody for a breath test after the officer, Ben Hektoen, noticed “an odor of ingested alcohol coming from the cabin of the vehicle.” From Hektoen’s filed police report, which you…
Busta Rhymes was arrested and charged with second-degree assault for allegedly throwing a protein drink at a gym employee.
“That’s such a bad idea,” says the bystander, filming a cell phone video on July 18 in the parking lot of a restaurant in Southaven, Mississippi. “He’s currently face down on the stretcher.”
There are just so many ways to grab Wednesday and bend it to your will, to tell Wednesday, “Listen up, Wednesday, I am the boss of you and soon you will disappear over the horizon, utterly forgotten, just like Monday and Tuesday before you.” Some people buy a venti iced caramel macchiato, some people post a #HumpDay…
An Iowa City burglar was apprehended on Friday after robbing a store and leaving behind a trail of snacks.
