Rev. Jesse Jackson said today that the brutal beating of a motorist in Detroit was a “sin against humanity” and he called for metro Detroit to come together in the wake of the attack.

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said gun control advocates need to make opponents “afraid” as he announced funding for a new group. Bloomberg said Tuesday he will donate $50 million to Every Town for Gun Safety. He described the group as a counter to the National Rifle Association.

There’s an MRCTV video circulating on the Internet that features a man with a microphone asking college students in Washington, D.C., to name just one member of the United States Senate. At least half a dozen are stumped. When he asks how many senators each state has, the same crew is equally flummoxed. One hundred percent of the students could name the hit song from the movie “Frozen,” though.

A Texas woman who was approached by a police officer who was “acting suspicious” was arrested after she failed to stop and talk to him.

The city of Detroit has reached a deal with retired police officers and firefighters that would preserve current pensions but trim annual cost-of-living payments – the first major agreement with retirees in the bankruptcy case, mediators announced Tuesday.

Day and evening classes are canceled Wednesday at Community College of Allegheny County’s West Hills Center in North Fayette. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are due to visit in the afternoon. And the irony is far thicker than just instruction being scotched for the day to accommodate federal officials talking about the importance of vocational education.

An Ohio high school student is fighting to save his dream of serving in the Army after his school found a folding pocket knife in his car and had him jailed. Jordan Wiser, a senior at Ashtabula County Technical School in Jefferson, was charged in December with illegal conveyance of a weapon – a three-inch pocket knife – onto school grounds. In addition to the knife, which he uses in EMT training, authorities also found an Airsoft gun during the search of his vehicle.