Teacher accused of molestation claims she doesn't touch black kids

theGRIO REPORT - A teacher accused of sexually molesting a first grader has claimed in her defense that because she’s racist she wouldn’t feel comfortable touching a black child...

Texas girl in AMBER alert found safe

Alexandria Fisher, NBC Chicago

NBC Chicago - An AMBER alert was cancelled Sunday morning after a 12-year-old girl missing from Texas was found safe.

White supremacist gangs in national spotlight

David A. Love

theGRIO REPORT - Who would have known that white supremacist prison gangs are a problem in America?...

Suspicion in DA death shifts to white supremacists

Juan A. Lozano and Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors.

Did white supremacist kill prisons boss, pizza delivery man?

Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News

NBC NEWS - Investigators are looking into whether a paroled white supremacist may have killed a pizza delivery man and gunned down the top prisons official in Colorado before he led Texas authorities on a wild chase and shootout.

How affirmative action foes are borrowing from the NAACP

Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica

PRO PUBLICA - When the NAACP began challenging Jim Crow laws across the South, it knew that, in the battle for public opinion, the particular plaintiffs mattered as much as the facts of the case...

Big names at SXSW, but what about big breaks?

Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In the frenzy of South by Southwest, even standouts like The Flaming Lips feel the need to stand out...

Houston high school blamed in rape of special needs child

Ryan Korsgard, KPRC

VIDEO - When a 16-year-old girl attended Sam Houston High School in Houston, Texas a teacher's assistant made sure she got between classes and on and off of the school bus safely...

Texas woman's execution halted; DA won't appeal

Michael Graczyk, Associated Press

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - State District Judge Larry Mitchell issued a reprieve for 51-year-old Kimberly McCarthy less than five hours before she could have been taken to the death chamber for the 1997 slaying of a neighbor...

Sheriff: Second suspect possible in Lone Star College attack

Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press

HOUSTON (AP) - Carlton Berry, 22, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon...

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