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Pastor's mother killed outside of church
12:56 PM on 04/23/2012
VIDEO - Colorado police are working to identify the gunman who opened fire outside of an Aurora church Sunday afternoon...
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Orthodox Jewish brothers accused of beating black teen
12:17 PM on 04/23/2012
BALTIMORE (AP) - Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling for an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood watch are seeking to postpone their trial because of publicity comparing their case to the Trayvon Martin case...
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4-year-old hero saves family from house fire
4:09 PM on 04/20/2012
VIDEO - 4 year old Andra McGowan is being called a hero after waking his family up while their house was on fire...
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7 men face charges for sexually abusing a mentally disabled girl
2:41 PM on 04/20/2012
MADAME NOIRE - South Africans are shocked and outraged over a disturbing video of seven teenage boys and young men sexually assaulting a mentally-handicapped teenage girl that has gone viral...
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Lawyer: Mom accused in fatal baby abduction upset
2:14 PM on 04/20/2012
SPRING, Texas (AP) - Verna McClain is accused of shooting 28-year-old Kala Golden outside a suburban Houston pediatric center and abducting her 3-day-old son...
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Judge: Race played role in NC death penalty case
8:42 AM on 04/20/2012
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- A condemned killer's trial was so tainted by the racially influenced decisions of prosecutors that he should be removed from death row and serve a life sentence, a judge ruled Friday in a precedent-setting North Carolina decision.
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Florida residents shocked by killing, burning of 2 teens
3:21 PM on 04/19/2012
(AP) - A passerby's horrifying find along a Florida trail -- the bodies of two teenagers engulfed in flames -- has shocked residents and spurred relentless questions about how and why someone killed the close friends...
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Parents force 8-year-old daughter to wear 'I like to steal' sign
2:36 PM on 04/19/2012
Montrail White and his wife have forced their 8-year-old daughter to wearing a sign that reads 'I like to steal from others and lie about it'...
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Florida governor announces 'Stand Your Ground' task force
12:49 PM on 04/19/2012
theGRIO REPORT - Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday announced the composition of a task force to evaluate that state's Stand Your Ground law...
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Verna McClain, nurse accused in baby abduction, to be in court
10:34 AM on 04/19/2012
CONROE, Texas (AP) - A nurse who had suffered a miscarriage was desperate to find a child, so she went exactly where she knew she could find one...
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Twitter beef causes Ohio teen's arrest
8:08 AM on 04/19/2012
A 19 year old teen was arrested after posting a video of herself assaulting another young girl on WorldStar Hip Hop.com...
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Iowa judge rejects theory of 'implicit bias'
1:35 PM on 04/18/2012
(AP) - A judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday that claimed Iowa's state government systemically discriminated against black job applicants by allowing subtle racial bias to creep into virtually every hiring and promotion decision...
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Trailer companies to pay $14.8M in FEMA settlement to Gulf residents
12:36 PM on 04/18/2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Nearly two dozen companies that manufactured government-issued trailers for storm victims after Hurricane Katrina have agreed to pay $14.8 million...
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Salecia Johnson: 6-year-old handcuffing sparks school debate
9:43 AM on 04/18/2012
(AP) - In Milledgeville, Ga., a city of 18,000 some 90 miles from Atlanta, Salecia Johnson was accused of tearing items off the walls and throwing books and toys in an outburst Friday at Creekside Elementary....
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Michel Martelly, Haiti president, diagnosed with pulmonary embolism
2:54 PM on 04/17/2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's President Michel Martelly was being treated for a blood clot in his lung caused by an earlier surgery, a presidential adviser said Tuesday..
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Middle school chess team wins National High School Championship
12:07 PM on 04/17/2012
VIDEO - Middle school chess players at I.S. 318 Eugenia Maria de Hostos in Williamsburg defeated several elite high school teams at this years National High School Championships...
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Personnel rules could spell trouble for 'sh*tbag parents' firefighter
12:00 PM on 04/17/2012
TheGRIO REPORT - A Miami Dade firefighter who posted a rant decrying the second degree murder charges filed against the killer of Trayvon Martin may have violated department rules, a personnel manual obtained by theGrio suggests...
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Swedish Minister of Culture involved in racist circumcision cake scandal
11:34 AM on 04/17/2012
At an art exhibition, where they wanted to bring focus to female circumcision, the minister participated in the cutting of a cake shaped like an African woman...
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Salecia Johnson: 6-year-old handcuffed after 'tantrum' in kindergarten class
11:22 AM on 04/17/2012
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (AP) - Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum, and the police chief defended the action...
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3 alleged white supremacists convicted of federal hate crimes
10:37 AM on 04/17/2012
theGRIO REPORT - Three alleged white supremacists who violently beat an African-American man while he waited at a Houston bus stop have been found guilty of a federal hate crime...
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