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A San Francisco police car is parked in front of a laundromat where an argument started, which resulted in a woman being set on fire Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, in San Francisco. San Francisco police say a woman is hospitalized with what are being described as "life-threatening injuries" after someone poured a flammable liquid on her and set her on fire. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Police: Man suspected of setting girlfriend on fire

Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - San Francisco police searched Sunday for a man suspected of throwing a flammable liquid at his girlfriend and severely burning her...
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Pallbearers carry the remains of Joseph Briggs from New Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church following a funeral service on June 20, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Briggs, who turned 16 in April, was shot in the head during a drive-by shooting while he was sitting on his front porch with his sister on June 9. Briggs was one of nine people killed and 46 wounded by gunfire in Chicago during that June weekend. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Violence, gangs scar Chicago community in 2012

Sharon Cohen, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - These three violent snapshots of a single Chicago street are not exceptional. It's been a bloody year in the nation's third-largest city...
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In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, Margaret Anyoso, 35, speaks to The Associated Press In Nairobi, Kenya. The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: detaining mothers who can't pay their bills. Lazarus Omondi says it's the only way he can keep his medical center running. Anyoso and another mother told The Associated Press that Pumwani wouldn't let them leave after delivering their babies. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money

Jason Straziuso, Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: detaining mothers who can't pay their bills...
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This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Jose Banks, one of two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

FBI: 1 of 2 escaped Chicago inmates arrested

Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - One of the two bank robbers who made a daring escape from a high-rise federal jail in Chicago has been arrested after days on the run, an FBI spokeswoman said Friday...
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FBI: Hate crimes down in US; nearly half racial

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - The FBI released its yearly report on hate crimes last week and it showed a slight decrease in 2011...
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Man in apparent Mitt Romney mask robs Virginia bank

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VIDEO - A man wearing an apparent a Mitt Romney mask robbed a Virginia bank yesterday -- the same bank hit by a robber in a Hillary mask two years ago...
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Video still of crime scene at South Shore, Chicago. Courtesy NBC Chicago

5 shot in South Shore neighborhood of Chicago

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NBC Chicago - Witnesses said a woman waiting for a bus was one of five people wounded when gunfire erupted at a busy corner Monday evening in the South Shore neighborhood...
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L-R Actor Idris Elba who plays Stringer Bell in The Wire and Chicago bank robber
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'Stringer Bell Bandit' arrested

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - Chicago police have arrested and charged Kenneth Anderson, 46, for robbing and attempting to rob 11 banks in the city's downtown Loop since October, according to the Chicago Tribune...
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George Zimmerman (C) leaves the courtroom after his hearing at the Seminole County Courthouse on October 19, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. Circuit Judge Debra Nelson ruled that Zimmerman's attorneys can access the school records of Trayvon Martin, with whom Zimmerman is charged of fatally shooting. (Photo by Stephen M. Dowell-Pool/Getty Images)

Defense team releases new bloody Zimmerman photo

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - The defense in the second degree murder case of George Zimmerman has released a color photo showing Zimmerman's face on the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin...
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These undated images provided by Hofstra Athletics Communications show, from left, Hofstra University basketball players Dallas Anglin, Jimmy Hall, Shaquille Stokes. The players were arrested on burglary charges stemming from six break-ins of Long Island campus dormitory rooms, police said Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. They were facing arraignment Friday in district court. (AP Photo/Hofstra Athletics Communications)

4 Hofstra basketball players charged in burglaries

Frank Eltman, Associated Press
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) - Four Hofstra University basketball players were arrested on burglary charges stemming from dormitory room break-ins, police said Friday...
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