Austin Mullen

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Nollaig O'Connor |Dennis Romero |Austin Mullen |Caroline Radnofsky

Video taken at a Minnesota public park this week shows a white woman apparently admitting she used a racist slur against a Black youth she accused of taking an item that belongs to her child. The man who recorded the video, Sharmake Omar, 30, said in an interview Friday that the 5-year-old child was called the N-word by the woman Monday. "The Rochester Police Department is aware of the video that was posted on social media and has received multiple calls related to it," it said Friday.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Jesse Rodriguez |Austin Mullen |Dareh Gregorian

President Donald Trump has fired former second gentleman Doug Emhoff from the board that oversees the Holocaust Museum. “Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council," Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a vice president, said in a statement. "Let me be clear: Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized.

2 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | David K. Li |Austin Mullen

A disgruntled former Disney employee was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking into a menu-creating system used by the park's restaurants to falsely say foods were safe from certain "allergies, when they were not," Florida federal prosecutors said Thursday. Michael Scheuer, a 40-year-old Winter Garden resident, pleaded guilty earlier in January to several computer-related crimes, authorities said.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | David K. Li |Austin Mullen

A Texas mortuary owner is accused of conducting gruesome experiments on corpses, chopping off "heads, arms and spines" to test the impact of embalming fluids, officials said. Adeline Ngan-Binh Bui, the 50-year-old operator of Capital Mortuary Services, was charged with abuse of corpse and tampering with government records, Austin police said. An investigation began after an embalmer took the accusations to regulators with the Texas Funeral Commission, court documents showed.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | David K. Li |Austin Mullen |Helen Kwong

A disgruntled former Disney employee was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking into a menu-creating system used by the park's restaurants to falsely say foods were safe from certain "allergies, when they were not," Florida federal prosecutors said Thursday. Michael Scheuer, a 40-year-old Winter Garden resident, pleaded guilty earlier in January to several computer-related crimes, authorities said.