Lisa Drouillard's parents had no idea when they arrived on these shores from Haiti that their only daughter (pictured) would one day be crowned Miss Teen New York. After dealing with the emotional aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Drouillards could actually be happy and enjoy the good news of their daughter's accomplishment.

Seven black firefighters may receive a $300,000-plus settlement for a discrimination case they filed in Houston.

The firefighters allege that they were overlooked when promotions were handed down, while city officials claim that the men did not score high enough on their 2006 written exams. Refusing to be daunted, the men fought fire with fire and sued the city two years later for using a racially biased exam.

The Houston City Council approved their case on Wednesday.

Hollywood has lost a grand diva of the silver screen. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is dead at age 79. The iconic star, whose career spanned 70 years, died early Wednesday morning peacefully at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Taylor had been seriously ill for more than a decade and was being treated for congestive heart failure. She had been hospitalized for two months.

The daycare owner who fled to Nigeria, after a February 24 fire at her Houston daycare killed four children and severely injured three, was finally returned to the United States on Monday afternoon.

Multi-Grammy–winning blues pianist Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins passed away in his sleep at his Austin, Tex., home on Monday. He was 97.

The young woman who stands accused of killing a yoga store co-worker in Bethesda, Md., on March 11th was ordered held without bond Monday on a charge of first-degree murder.

Jessica Tata (pictured), who fled to Africa trying to escape charges of leaving her Texas daycare center unattended to go shopping while the building caught fire, is expected back in the United States on Monday.

A fourth-grade student, who attends Washington D.C.'s Strong John Thomson Elementary School, decided to share with his classmates some bagged cocaine he found in his step-dad's car trunk on Thursday instead of sharing his lunch. The unidentified child was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Although the boy was scheduled to appear in court Friday, the hearing was canceled. The D.C. Office of the Attorney General decided not to prosecute the young child.

DuPage County, Ill., prosecutors released Wednesday that a hospital worker, who was in dire need of money in order to pay off a cable bill, admitted to stealing two rings off the fingers of a dead woman he was taking to the morgue.