Brandy Collins News Today

While Oakland hills residents lament the lack of resources for districts that pay the lion’s share of taxes, there are some programs in place for dealing with illegal dumping and graffiti.

A facility that works with children with autism and other conditions is now operating in a bigger location in Killeen.

The Innovation Black Chamber announced this week the grand opening of Guiding Light Concepts, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) center.

Sol Blume music festival returned to Sacramento with a lineup of R&B, soul and hip hop performers, drawing over 40,000 music lovers generating approximately $10 million in revenue.

Deon Howard is charged with unlawful possession of a stolen vehicle, abuse of a corpse in the theft of a funeral home van containing a body that was found in Chicago.

“I was thinking what are they trying to do, steal his organs or something like that,” a family member said. “We thought we would never find him, that maybe they threw him in the lake.”

“I was thinking what are they trying to do, steal his organs or something like that,” Ed Brown said. Curtis Brown’s body was found Monday on a South Chicago street.

A local funeral home has a history of violations and is again under scrutiny since the theft Saturday of one of its vans containing a deceased body.