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After-school fight posted on social media leads to 4 arrests

4:59 PM on 05/18/2012

Students at a charter school in Miami's Broward County were arrested after a video of an after-school fight aired on YouTube...

Detroit police find Marvin Winans' SUV and identify two suspects

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4:17 PM on 05/18/2012

Pastor Marvin Winans was carjacked on Wednesday afternoon while pumping gas at at a Detroit gas station...

Rescued Haitian refugee joins the Coast Guard

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2:45 PM on 05/18/2012

Orlando Morel, 24, was just 6-years-old when he was recused at sea by the United States Coast Guard...

Numbers of radical hate groups grow as America's demographic shifts

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2:37 PM on 05/18/2012

Hate groups and militias have been steadily growing in numbers over the past few years as America's makeup continues to change...

911 tape: Confusion at home where mom shot kids

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1:29 PM on 05/18/2012

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Neighbors of a Florida mother who fatally shot her four children before killing herself weren't sure who was injured after hearing gunshots and refused to admit three of the woman's kids who were trying to get in their house...

Malawi's new president vows to repeal gay ban

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12:51 PM on 05/18/2012

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) - President Joyce Banda declared Friday she wants to repeal Malawi's laws against homosexual acts, going against a trend in Africa in which gays are being increasingly singled out for prosecution...

Male student suspended for wearing a skirt

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11:04 AM on 05/18/2012

WASHINGTON - A male student was suspended from a southern Maryland school for wearing girls' clothing, and the incident has sparked a big controversy in Calvert County...

Texas man allegedly killed over cheap Mother's day gift

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3:45 PM on 05/17/2012

Clifton 'JR' Barkin, 22, is now dead after the mother of his children, Paige Parkerson, stabbed him in the backyard of his yellow rental house in Houston...

Acquittal in Chad Holley beating case angers some in Houston

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3:28 PM on 05/17/2012

HOUSTON (AP) - A jury's acquittal Wednesday of a former Houston police officer in the alleged beating of a 15-year-old burglary suspect during a videotaped arrest upset black community leaders...

2nd grader dons blackface to play MLK for school project

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1:25 PM on 05/17/2012

theGRIO REPORT - A second-grader at an elementary school in Colorado was told to remove makeup he wore to turn his face black for a performance in honor of Martin Luther King Jr...

Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births

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10:20 AM on 05/17/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing...

OJ Simpson appeals to be freed from Nevada prison

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1:06 PM on 05/16/2012

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A new lawyer for O.J. Simpson filed a new attempt Tuesday to gain his release from Nevada state prison...

Charles Taylor: Sorry for those hurt by war crimes

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12:57 PM on 05/16/2012

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone...

33-year-old man has 30 kids by 11 different women

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12:32 PM on 05/16/2012

Desmond Hatchett of Tennessee is pleading with the state to help him pay for child support he simply cannot afford...

Brevard County, Fla. mom kills 4 kids, then herself

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9:29 AM on 05/16/2012

PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. (AP) - In the middle of the night, Tonya Thomas' neighbors awoke to the sound of a gunshot and moments later heard a knock on their door...

Pastor Raphael Warnock urges inclusivity within congregation

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3:52 PM on 05/15/2012

Rev. Raphael Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist in Atlanta, Georgia is one of a few black pastors who are preaching acceptance of gay marriage...

State rests in trial tied to Mich. stabbing spree case

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3:24 PM on 05/15/2012

FLINT, Mich. (AP) - Prosecutors in Michigan have rested their case in the first murder trial for an Israeli immigrant accused of a deadly stabbing spree two years ago...

College football player ID'd as shooting victim

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4:42 PM on 05/14/2012

A former Carson High School and El Camino Junior College football player was shot and killed Sunday after a fight at a party in Lincoln Heights...

Famed FAMU marching band suspended another year

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11:47 AM on 05/14/2012

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida A&M University's famed marching band is being suspended until 2013...

Autopsy: Kendrec McDade shot by Pasadena police 7 times

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9:14 AM on 05/14/2012

LOS ANGELES - The mother of an unarmed black teen who was shot by Pasadena police in March said Saturday that details released from her son's autopsy report has only increased her pain and frustration...

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