Bobby Brown sentenced to 55 days in jail for DUI
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bobby Brown has been sentenced to 55 days in a Los Angeles jail and four years of probation for a drunken driving case...
Scorned Georgia woman who ran over ex-boyfriend sentenced
theGRIO REPORT - Just hours after her former lover ended their relationship, Vanessa Marie Garrett-Rogers, 28, of Hiram, Georgia, drove into her victim, dragged him under her vehicle, and backed over him before fleeing the scene in July 2010...
Teen baby snatcher gets 10 years behind bars
ATLANTA - An African-American teenager has been jailed for ten years for posing as a hospital worker and kidnapping a newborn at a hospital in metropolitan Atlanta...
Texas rape trial fugitive sentenced to 99 years
LIBERTY, Texas (AP) - A man who was a fugitive for nearly two weeks after fleeing his trial a day before being convicted in the repeated group sexual assault of an 11-year-old Southeast Texas girl was told by a judge Thursday that he would spend nearly the next century in prison...
Jesse Jackson lends support to hoops player accused of assault
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - After Darrell Williams' brother was shot to death in 2009 in a Chicago neighborhood, his mother and aunt knew what had to be done to spare him the same fate. A promising basketball player...
Silicon Valley IT consultant convicted of child porn
BAY AREA - A Silicon Valley information technology consultant who rigged up his San Jose home with hidden cameras so he could watch young girls...
Jamaican drug lord sentenced in NY to 23 years
NEW YORK (AP) - A notorious Jamaican drug lord who pleaded guilty in New York to drug and gun trafficking charges has been sentenced to 23 years in prison...
Ex-NFL player sentenced in underage sex case
CINCINNATI (AP) - Former Bengals linebacker Nate Webster was sentenced Wednesday in Ohio to 12 years in prison for having sex with the underage teen daughter of a former assistant coach for the Cincinnati team...
Kemba Smith story takes a more positive turn
theGRIO Q&A - You may remember the saga of Kemba Smith, the onetime Hampton University student who in 1995 was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for her role in a crack cocaine ring...
5 ex-cops sentenced in Katrina killings case
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge sentenced five former police officers to years in prison for the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina...
