Slain mayoral candidate's family demands answers
theGRIO REPORT - Nearly three months after the battered body of Clarksdale, Miss. mayoral candidate Marco Watson McMillian was found dumped in a field, his parents have hired Parks and Crump...
'Hero' cop who sat beside first lady, facing rape charges
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes....
O.J. set to speak, in bid to win freedom
LAS VEGAS (AP) — More than four years after the world last heard from O.J. Simpson in court, one of the United States' most famous prisoners speaks again Wednesday in a bid to win freedom from a sentence that could keep him behind bars until he dies...
New Orleans mass shooting suspect ID'd
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Police late Monday identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting of about 20 people during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, saying several people had identified him as the gunman captured by surveillance camera videos...
Video released in Mother's Day shooting
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans police hope a $10,000 reward and blurry surveillance camera images will lead to arrests in a Mother's Day shooting that wounded 19 people and showed again how far the city has to go to shake a persistent culture of violence that belies the city's festive image...
A death row reprieve in Mississsippi
PARCHMAN, Miss. - Death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning will have another chance to prove his innocence in the murders of two college students more than two decades ago after the Mississippi Supreme Court voted eight to one to grant him a stay of execution...
Are the most dangerous neighborhoods in Detroit?
theGRIO REPORT - Detroit has the unenviable position of having the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation, according to a study published this week...
In Chicago, even Obama's neighborhood may be unsafe
theGRIO REPORT - As Chicago’s violence issue continues to sit in the spotlight, incidents happening in President Barack Obama’s hometown have become national news, an unfair scrutiny, many residents argue...
Chicago woman has been arrested 396 times since 1978
NBC CHICAGO - Over the years, Shermain Miles, 51, was arrested 65 times for disorderly conduct and 59 times for crimes related to prostitution, among other things...
One bombing suspect dead, suburbs locked down
NBC NEWS - With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives out the window...
