A robber fleeing from police, jumped the curb with his car, killing a woman and her three children, The Philadelphia Daily News reports. “He literally cut a tree in half and then hit the 1-year-old, [who] was in a stroller,” Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey told the newspaper. “The other individuals were on the front porch of their own home. He struck with such force that it knocked the concrete steps loose.” Killed in the accident were Latoya Smith, 22; Smith’s daughter, Remedy Smith, who would have turned 1 on Friday; Alicia Griffin, 6; and Gina Rosario, 7, Clark said. Donta Cradock, 18, the alleged driver, faces charges for theft of a motorcycle, the crime that allegedly triggered his flight, police said.

Cleveland Brown wide receiver Donte Stallworth was driving drunk when he struck a pedestrian with his car and killed him last weekend, according to a Miami television station and newspaper. Both WSVN-TV and the Miami Herald cited unnamed sources who say that Stallworth’s blood-alcohol level was .12 – .04 over the legal limit. Read the rest.

According to several local Cleveland news sources, police have confirmed that Davon Crawford, the 33-year-old man suspected of killing five family members, is dead. Cleveland Police Lt. Thomas Stacho says that police responded to a call from a tipster who saw Crawford entering a house on West 128^th Street in the city. Police surrounded and searched the home and when they found Crawford hiding inside, he shot himself to death.  The suicide ends a manhunt that began Thursday night, when police say Crawford shot and killed his wife, her sister, a 5-year-old girl and 2-year-old twins. Read More.

There is a massive manhunt underway in Cleveland for a man who allegedly shot to death his new wife, four children and injured another child, CNN reports. “We believe wholeheartedly that he’s armed,” Cleveland Police Lt. Thomas Stacho said of 33-year-old Davon Crawford, noting that the wife and four children – two of whom are toddlers – are dead. The fifth child, a 7-year-old boy is in “very critical condition.” Read more.

Child Abuse on the Rise in Jamaica Child abuse reports skyrocketed last year in Jamaica, according to a report from the country’s Office of Children’s Registry. The report, which was released Saturday, revealed that the office got 3,784 reports of child abuse in 2008, reports CNN. The office only received 425 reports in 2007, signaling a large jump in the small Caribbean island of about 2.8 million people. An official from the OCR office said the rise could have something to do with Jamaicans becoming “increasingly mindful of their legal responsibility to report such incidents,” and are hoping to stop the upsurge of violence against children in the nation. Between January and November of last year, 73children were murdered in the country. The severe consequences of not reporting abuse could also have something to do with the higher number of reported cases, he said. “If someone has information of suspected child abuse and fails to make a report to the Registry, that person can be charged a maximum fee of $500,000 or-and six months imprisonment,” the official said. 
Fifteen Nigerian Athletes Killed in Crash A vehicle crash in Nigeria is responsible for the death of 15 football players, reports the BBC. The accident happened in Plateau state as the group was on its way to play a game in Abuja. The country’s roads are some of the most dangerous in the world and thousands of people die each year in accidents on the road, reports the BBC. Mohamed Sanusi, the Nigeria Football Federation head, said 11 players died on the accident scene and four others died in the hospital. Two players survived their injuries, but are “on the danger list,” he said. “It is really another very sad day for Nigerian football,” said Sanusi. A crash in the area not too long ago killed female athletes.

Prejudice could cost a Black worker thousands. Racism is costly. In fact, racial prejudice is a key reason for the wage gap between Black and White workers, according to a new study in the Journal of Political Economy. Over a lifetime, the researchers concluded, racial prejudice accounts for a quarter of that gap, costing a Black worker up to $115,000. Kerwin Kofi Charles, from the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, and Jonathan Guryan, from Chicago’s Booth School of Business, found that educational inequality, differences in workers’ skill levels and other forms of discrimination likely account for the rest of the gap. The study’s authors monitored a series of surveys conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago. In the surveys, White people were asked their views on issues such as interracial marriage, Whites-only private clubs, neighborhood segregation and whether or not they would vote for a Black president, e! Science News reports. What they found was a significant link between wage gaps and bias. “Though prejudice explains only a minority-albeit a significant one-of the Black-White wage gap, the costs borne by Blacks … are large,” the researchers found. “Consider an 18-year-old Black male choosing between two states… . Our estimates imply that if he lives in Florida rather than Massachusetts. … the net present value of his [lifetime] earnings will be about $34,000 smaller. If he lives in Mississippi rather than Wisconsin … his discounted earnings are about $115,000 smaller.”

A carjacker is killed during shootout. Henry County (Ga.) Police say they shot and killed a carjacking suspect early Thursday during a gun battle. The suspect stole a motorcycle at gunpoint from the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store on Ga. 138 near Stockbridge, police say. When the suspect wrecked the motorcycle a short distance away, officers say they chased him into a wooded area. “Multiple shots were fired at the officers by the suspect,” Henry County police Capt. Jason Bolton told WSB-TV. “Ultimately, officers did return fire,” Bolton said. “The suspect was struck and was killed.” No officers were injured during the incident. The name of the person killed was not immediately released.

Martial artist and his wife are killed. A mixed-martial arts fighter and his wife were found shot to death in a Laguna Niguel condominium in what authorities said was an apparent murder-suicide. The bodies of Justin Levens and his wife, Sarah McLean-Levens, were found Wednesday afternoon, Orange County Sheriff’s officials said. Levens, 28, competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and other organizations.

The 34-year-old employee who was killed when customers flooded through the doors of the Black Friday opening of a Walmart in Long Island has been identified as Jdimaytai Damour.  He was a temporary maintenance worker who took a job to make some extra cash for the holiday season. His family has hired a lawyer, setting the stage for a possible lawsuit. Angry relatives of Jdimytai Damour, a graduate of Long Island’s Freemont High School, were waiting for autopsy results Saturday as police reviewed security tapes to identify shoppers who took part in the stampede. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart has defended the precautions it took on the busiest shopping day of the year, but Long Island cops said the retailer didn’t have enough security on hand. Danielle Damour, the victim’s sister, said the family was seeking legal advice and had not made funeral plans for her brother, a temporary maintenance worker. “We’ve got a lawyer already,” Danielle Damour, 41, said. “They haven’t released the body because they want to do the autopsy.” Damour was knocked over and trampled as shoppers literally walked over him to access the store faster. While only one fatality was recorded, a pregnant women had to be hospitalized after being knocked to the floor and three other persons suffered minor injuries. Shoppers were still coming in as emergency workers were trying to save the man’s life. “He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me.”

Six-year-old girl killed for her body parts. In East Africa’s Burundi, a 6-year-old albino girl was found brutally murdered, with her head and limbs cut off, reports the BBC.  The day of the killing, attackers broke into her home, tied up her parents and shot her in the head, said local officials. Killing albinos for their body parts has become a disturbing trend in the country as well as in neighboring Tanzania because witchdoctors have claimed their limbs can be for magic potions. But this was not always the case in Burundi. According to Kasim Kazungu, who heads Burundi Albinos’ Association, albinos were not a target until word got out about the money they could make from selling body parts in Tanzania. And, recently, a man in Tanzania was arrested for trying to sell his albino wife to traders from Congo. This is the sixth albino person in Burundi killed since September.   
Powerful quake hits Panama overnight. An earthquake measuring 6.2 in magnitude shook Panama overnight, reports Reuters. It hit at 1:11 a.m. local time about 35 miles from David, Panama. While tremors were felt in the capital of neighboring Costa Rica, there are no immediate reports of damage there, according to the nation’s emergency commission. People in Panama, who called into a local radio station, said they felt the quake intensely along with several aftershocks. Another caller, who said he was a Red Cross worker, reported that there wasn’t any signs of major structural damage or landslides near the quake’s epicenter, reports Reuters.

A U.S. Marine and his wife apparently were killed by his own. California authorities are holding four U.S. Marines they say tortured and killed a bi-racial couple from Brooklyn, N.Y., in their San Diego-area home. The Marines apparently served under the command of Brooklyn-raised  Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, of  Bensonhurst, who, with his wife, Quiana, were found bound and gagged in the ransacked house, each shot in the head execution-style, reports The New York Daily News.  Pietrzak was the suspects’ sergeant at Camp Pendleton, according to Quiana’s mother. Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, worked for the county’s Black Infant Care Center. Pietrzak’s mother, Henryka Pietrzak-Varga, said she had prepared herself “for the possibility that my son could die in Iraq.” “But to die like this, in their own home?” she told the News.  Read the rest here.