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April 19, 2013

Boston on lockdown during marathon manhunt for white-hat suspect

NBC NEWS - Boston and its suburbs, universities and transit system were on total lockdown Friday as police hunted for…
April 19, 2013

NBC News: One Marathon bombing suspect dead, manhunt for second continues

NBC NEWS - With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday…
April 18, 2013

Obama honors bombing victims in Boston: 'You will run again!'

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is seeking to refocus a nervous nation's attention on those killed and gravely wounded…
April 17, 2013

Coping with the aftermath of the Boston tragedy

theGRIO REPORT - Musicians and dancers from high school marching bands stretched and rehearsed on the National Mall on Tuesday…
April 17, 2013

Investigators 'zeroing in on some people' in Boston bombings, officials say

NBC NEWS - Senior officials told NBC News that they were not prepared to characterize those individuals as suspects...
April 17, 2013

Condoleezza Rice: Terrorist acts test presidential leadership

WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says terrorist attacks like the one that rocked the Boston Marathon…
April 16, 2013

Boston marathon runner who witnessed bombing: 'It was a horrible, horrible mess'

theGRIO REPORT - The annual Boston marathon came to a halt on Monday after two bombs detonated at the finish…
April 16, 2013

Obama: Boston explosions 'an act of terror'

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the explosions at the Boston Marathon are being investigated as an act of…
April 16, 2013

Gov. Deval Patrick: No unexploded bombs at Boston Marathon

BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says no unexploded bombs were found at the Boston Marathon. He says the…
April 16, 2013

Feds search apartment, seek clues in Boston Marathon attack

BOSTON (AP) - FBI agents searched a suburban Boston apartment overnight and appealed to the public for amateur video and…
April 15, 2013

President Obama responds to Boston Marathon bomb attacks

theGRIO REPORT- President Barack Obama on Monday held a news conference in response to two deadly bomb blasts that killed…
April 15, 2013

Secret Service expands security at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service expanded its security perimeter at the White House on Monday following the explosions at…
April 15, 2013

3 killed as 2 bombs explode at Boston Marathon

BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday,…
April 15, 2013

Obama calls Mass. officials following explosions at Boston Marathon

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama has been notified about the explosions at the finish line…
April 8, 2013

Amid Boston school changes, giving voice to busing’s past

BOSTON (AP) - The uproar started in 1974, when a federal judge imposed busing after a lawsuit claimed black students…
January 15, 2013

theGrio’s 100: Earl Phalen, a passion to save children through education

theGRIO's 100 - The Boston native has spent the past 20 years dedicated to developing opportunities for children through learning…
January 8, 2013

Boston’s first black police officer honored by the city for breaking barriers in 1878

Sergeant Horatio J. Homer broke barriers by becoming the first African-American police officer in Boston's history in 1878, but over…
September 25, 2012

Drug lab scandal might taint over 1,100 inmate cases

More than 1,100 defendants are now serving prison sentences based at least in part on drug tests by a chemist…
August 12, 2012

Racial profiling allegedly 'rampant' at Boston's Logan International Airport

NEW YORK (AP) - Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston's Logan International Airport are alleging that a program intended to…
August 3, 2012

Black woman vandalizes Civil War monument to African-American soldiers

theGRIO REPORT - Authorities report that Rosemine Occean, 38, threw thick, yellow paint on a historic Beacon Hill memorial...