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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds a bag of donated paper towels during a Kettering Storm Relief event on October 30, 2012 in Kettering, Ohio. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney's campaign has reduced their campaign schedule and are focusing their attention on disaster relief. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Romney storm relief efforts met with skepticism

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - The Romney campaign's decision Tuesday to suddenly change a scheduled victory rally in Ohio into a storm-relief event in the wake of Hurricane Sandy is being criticized by pundits as a staged photo opportunity...
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Branches lay on Hubers Drive on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, along Route 14 in Canton Township, Pa., in the aftermath of Sandy. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/The Daily Review, Eric Hrin)

Region hit by Sandy struggles to resume life

Adam Geller, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster...
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Waters flood Ocean Ave. in Sea Bright, N.J., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain.  (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Hurricane Sandy gains power and aims for Northeast

Allen G. Breed and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - A fast-strengthening Hurricane Sandy churned north Monday, raking ghost-town cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts. Subways and schools were closed across the region of 50 million people...
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White teens in blackface re-enact Chris Brown-Rihanna beating

Abdul Sada
theGRIO REPORT - Three white high school students in Waverly, New York, performed a satirical 're-enactment' of Chris Brown's infamous beating of his then-girlfriend Rihanna, in blackface, at a pep rally in front of students, parents, community leaders, and the media...
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Director Spike Lee attends the 'Bad' And Jaeger-Le Coultre - Glory To The Filmmaker 2012 Award photocall during the 69th Venice Film Festival at the Palazzo del Casino on August 31, 2012 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Spike Lee's Michael Jackson doc to briefly be in theaters

theGrio
theGRIO REPORT - Spike Lee's highly anticipated documentary about the making of Michael Jackson's classic 'Bad' album will be making a brief stop in theaters in select cities this fall...
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20 bystanders in Buswick Brooklyn rush to lift a car off toddlers and a grandmother

20 bystanders lift car to free pinned grandmother, toddlers

Andrew Siff
VIDEO - Nearly two dozen Good Samaritans rushed to rescue a woman and her two toddler grandchildren when they were run over by an elderly driver in a busy section of Brooklyn Friday afternoon, authorities and witnesses said...
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NY court considers: Is gang member a terrorist?

Michael Virtanen, Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - In August 2002, a New York City street gang crashed a christening party, shouted out their superiority, confronted a rival and started a fight that left a 10-year-old girl dead and someone else paralyzed...
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Rapper Jay-Z performs the inaugural concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Friday Sept. 28, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jay-Z opens Barclays Center with Brooklyn love

Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - The newly built Barclays Center is the home of the Brooklyn Nets, and the team's co-owner, Jay-Z, christened the venue Friday night in uniform...
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Version of Emancipation Proclamation to be displayed in Harlem

Melissa Noel
theGRIO REPORT - The only remaining version of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in Abraham Lincoln's handwriting will begin an eight city tour this week.
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Shooting in the Bronx kills African Immigrant

Suspect arrested in deadly Bronx shooting of African immigrant

Patrice Peck
theGRIO REPORT - New York police arrested suspect Freddie McGrier in the deadly shooting of 28-year-old Lamin Sillah, a recent Gambian transplant who put himself through school and sent money to his wife and family back home by working as a gas station attendant in the Bronx...
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