Survivor of 1963 '4 Little Girls' church bombing seeks funds

Jay Reeves, Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a notorious 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls is seeking millions in compensation and says she won't accept a top congressional award to honor the victims...

Man held for 42 years finally freed

Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News

NBC News - An Arizona man who has maintained for 42 years that he had nothing to do with a horrific hotel fire that killed more than two dozen people pleaded no contest Tuesday in a deal that sets aside his original conviction and frees him from prison.

Smoke alarm crisis: Conyers fire a wake-up call

Kunbi Tinuoye

theGRIO REPORT - The tragic deaths of four African-American children who lost their lives in a house fire last week should be a wake-up call for families to have working smoke alarms, says a group of fire and public safety experts....

4 children die in Georgia house fire

John Newland, NBC News

CONYERS, Ga. - Authorities say four children ranging in age from 8 months to 9 years old, one girl and three boys, died in a house fire late Tuesday night...

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...

Daycare worker allegedly left kids alone in house before fire broke out

Similoluwa Ojurongbe

theGRIO REPROT - The Houston home daycare where four children were killed in a fire last year was run by an irresponsible woman who twice left the children alone that day to go shopping, prosecutors told jurors Thursday during her murder trial...

Louisiana 'KKK' hate crime appears to be a hoax

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - A shocking alleged assault, in which a 20-year-old Louisiana woman was supposedly set on fire and her car vandalized with racial slurs, may have been entirely fabricated, according to local authorities...

20-year-old girl allegedly set on fire in hate crime

Cain Burdeau, Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A 20-year-old black woman told police she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car in northeastern Louisiana.

'Sleepwalking,' dreaming of BBQ, woman sets home on fire

Similoluwa Ojurongbe

theGRIO REPORT - A woman in Lexington, Kentucky is telling police that when she set her apartment on fire while her heavily-medicated son slept inside, she was sleepwalking...

Careless smoking cause of 2nd Tyler Perry studio fire