'Kinky Boots' star Billy Porter: 'It's his time'
NEW YORK (AP) — While all haircuts are important, the one Billy Porter got late last week was even more critical: It was his last trim before Sunday's Tony Awards.
Detective: Prankster registered as 'Barack H. Obama' in 2008
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pennsylvania detective is trying to figure out how an apparent prankster was able to fill out a 2008 voter registration card signed 'Barack H. Obama'...
December 12th is now Wiz Khalifa Day in Pittsburgh
theGRIO REPORT - Wiz Khalifa released his sophomore album O.N.I.F.C. last week, and today celebrates a day that will forever be his own in his hometown of Pittsburgh, according to The Source...
Wiz Khalifa tweets: I 'bought a jet'
theGRIO REPORT - The Pittsburgh-native went on somewhat of a Twitter rant about waiting for his flight and being fed up...
Pa. merchant finds rare Robert Johnson record
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pittsburgh record store owner has found what he calls "the holy grail of 78s" in a box of old albums he picked up for $50...
'Boyz n the Hood' reimagined by interpretive dancers
theGRIO REPORT - According to The New Yorker, 35-year-old African-American dancer Kyle Abraham is reinterpreting the Oscar nominated film in his own show called 'Pavement'...
Pennsylvania GOP accused of planning voter intimidation
theGRIO REPORT - Civil rights groups sent a letter to Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez today about alleged efforts between the Pennsylvania Republican Party and the Pittsburgh Tea Party to target Pittsburgh precincts with large numbers of African-American voters...
Pittsburgh hostage-taker surrenders
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A suicidal man who held a businessman hostage inside a downtown Pittsburgh office building for more than five hours Friday, posting Facebook updates during the standoff, surrendered to authorities without incident, police said...
Pittsburgh hostage-taker posts to Facebook
PITTSBURGH (AP) — An armed man with a military background took a hostage inside an upper floor of a downtown Pittsburgh office building on Friday and posted Facebook updates saying he'd 'lost everything'...
GOP rep: 47 percent 'too lazy' for IDs
theGRIO REPORT - Pennsylvania House Representative Daryl Metcalfe told a local radio host yesterday morning that the state cannot carry the burden for people who are 'too lazy' to get their photo ID...
