Crime

A prisoner swap between the United States and Russia is Griner's best chance of being freed early from her nine-year…
/ August 5, 2022
Albert Woodfox, a former inmate who spent decades in isolation at a Louisiana prison and became a prison reform advocate…
/ August 5, 2022
La Mesa, California
The city of La Mesa has settled a lawsuit for $125,000 after it was determined one of its officers made…
/ August 4, 2022
The federal government filed civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to…
/ August 4, 2022
Bakari Sellers, theGrio.com
Lason Butler, 27, died of acute dehydration after nearly two weeks in jail following his arrest for misdemeanor traffic violations.
/ August 4, 2022
Saudi Arai Lee memorial, theGrio.com
Officer Ernest Ferguson had been reprimanded several times at his previous job and three times since joining SPD in March…
/ August 4, 2022
A suburban Boston police officer who was pursuing a white suspect pinned a 20-year-old Black man to the ground by…
/ August 4, 2022
The driver in a hit-and-run crash that killed the father of rapper Nicki Minaj last year was sentenced Wednesday to…
/ August 3, 2022
Ahmaud Arbery, theGrio.com
The white man who initiated the neighborhood chase that resulted in the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery is asking a…
/ August 3, 2022
Steven L. Cibotti slammed his hands on their table at Flights, a Bay Area restaurant, and yelled, "F--- black lives.…
/ August 2, 2022
Emmett Till, theGrio
The now-88-year-old woman who set off the series of events that led to the murder of 14-year-old Till is reportedly…
/ August 2, 2022
A South Carolina inmate who killed four people is off death row after a federal appeals court ruled the judge…
/ August 2, 2022