Authorities say an Alabama man charged with murder this weekend beat his mother to death following an argument about his college grades, CNN reports.

According to a new report from CNN’s Brian Stelter, NBC executives are currently exploring ways to retain skilled entertainer and questionable truth-teller Brian Williams, even if he steps down as anchor of NBC Nightly News.

In July 2013, a Broward County deputy sheriff shot and killed Jermaine McBean after shouting at him to drop what turned out to be an unloaded air rifle resting on his shoulder. The officer swore under oath that there was nothing stopping McBean from hearing his orders. A photograph taken by a witness has emerged, however, that appears to show McBean lying on the ground after he was shot, wearing earbuds. The New York Times reports that police records indicate the earbuds “somehow wound up in the dead man’s pocket.”

A construction crane in Midtown Manhattan dropped a colossal air conditioning unit onto Madison Avenue on Sunday, shearing the side of an office building and injuring 10 people, The Wall Street Journal reports.

On Saturday, Enrique Iglesias grabbed a camera drone during his concert in Tijuana, Mexico, slicing open his fingers. The Associated Press reports that the ageless singer was “semi-treated” and returned to the stage to perform for another 30 minutes.

On Tuesday, in Cape Town, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture will announce the discovery of the São José—a slaving ship that sank in 1794. Reportedly, this is the first time the wreckage of a slaving ship that sank with slaves still aboard has been recovered.

Tufts University briefly advised students and staff to lock their doors and stay away from their windows early Sunday morning after a double stabbing at a campus frat house, the Associated Press reports.

According to the Washington Post, police have shot and killed at least 385 people so far this year. About half the victims were white and half minority; however, two-thirds of unarmed victims were black or Hispanic. Nearly a quarter of the victims were identified as suffering from a mental illness.

The Social Security Administration has found that the agency paid out $20.2 million in benefits to more than 130 suspected Nazi war criminals, former SS guards, and others who participated in the Third Reich, the Associated Press reports.

On Sunday, John Kerry broke his leg while riding his bicycle in France, the New York Times reports. The Secretary of State’s plans to travel to Madrid and then Paris to discuss the Islamic State have been canceled.

Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden and a former Attorney General of Delaware, has died of brain cancer. He was 46.

Police say an Oklahoma man was shot and killed on Friday after he attacked the state troopers who had just rescued him from rising floodwaters, the Associated Press reports.

On Friday, a jury found Saved by the Bell actor Dustin Diamond not guilty of felony reckless endangerment but yes guilty of two misdemeanors, charges stemming from an incident where Diamond allegedly stabbed a bar patron last December.

The New York Post reports that fraudulent vendors have been charging unwitting tourists to ride the Staten Island Ferry, which is free. One Queens man allegedly charged an out-of-town couple $400 for a round trip, which makes the $30 hot dog guy look like an amateur. Can’t knock the hustle!

Included in Nikki Finke’s settlement with Jay Penske—the Variety and Women’s Wear Daily owner who acquired Deadline in 2009, with whom Finke entered arbitration in 2013—is a provision that she may not practice online journalism about the entertainment industry for around a decade, the New York Times reports.

I’ve done a lot of things while tripping on mushrooms. I’ve eaten meals, taken walks in the park, even closed my eyes and chilled out to my favorite tunes. But, until a few weeks ago, I’d never won first place—and $5,000—in a Magic: the Gathering tournament.

According to a new report from People magazine, Bruce Jenner will appear on the cover of an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair as “Her,” the name the former Olympian has used for his female identity.

A six-month-long New York Times investigation has found that New York City’s system of “three-quarter houses” preys on those it ostensibly exists to help—recovering addicts and alcoholics. One sober-housing operator reportedly told residents to relapse and return to certain outpatient treatment programs, so he could receive Medicaid-fee kickback. If they refused, he would evict them.

A 47-year-old sport fisherman died in Hawaii on Friday after being impaled by a swordfish he had shot with a speargun, CNN reports.

The night after Michael Brelo was acquitted for the 2012 shooting death of unarmed Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams, I started writing. There is a certain burden of clarity and urgency that hangs over the writer, which he or she must ultimately answer to. But the weight of things was especially heavy this night. How ought I to reckon with the taking of another’s life in such brutal fashion? Brelo, an Iraq war veteran, pumped 49 shots into the car of Russell and Williams until they were no more. For that, he received the state’s mercy.