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September 16, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Experts aren't sure why. The expectation had been that crime would increase in a weak economy with…
September 14, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - It will be updated daily, providing fodder for residents to evaluate their own neighborhoods, academics to study…
September 14, 2011
MIAMI - A Miami teen accused of snatching an elderly woman's purse was turned in by his mother, police said…
September 9, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Last weekend marked one of the most violent in recent memory for many New Yorkers. It was…
September 9, 2011
Hip Hop Wired - Reports state that the Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder and his associates are catching heat for running an…
September 7, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Williams-Bolar, of Akron, served nine days in jail earlier this year for falsifying information on records…
September 6, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Political analysts and writers agree that Booker hasn't soothed residents' paranoia about what's going to happen to…
September 2, 2011
ATLANTA (AP) - The panel's decision stopped short of releasing Bowers, who was convicted of the 1973 killing of Kenneth…
September 1, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - The money to pay these felons came from a $750 million-a-year subsidy program that helps over 150,000…
August 31, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - The 67-year-old Onyango Obama is the half-brother of the president's late father. He is originally from Kenya...
August 30, 2011
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering five teenagers in 1978 in what was…
August 30, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton was in police custody after being arrested at a Southern California…
August 26, 2011
From TheGRIO -- A former NBA player has been charged in the shooting death of a 23-year old woman.
August 25, 2011
MIAMI - Rashell Leaeann Barfield, 21, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one count of making a false report of…
August 24, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NYPD has become one of the country's…
August 19, 2011
PHILADELPHIA - The trio admitted to allegations including robbery, conspiracy, rioting and assault in connection with the mob attacks on…
August 19, 2011
OPINION - For there to be any chance for us, or any urban area with a violent history, to shake…
August 16, 2011
OPINION - For The Game especially, the allegations seem to fit in line with his disillusionment with police after several,…
August 10, 2011
The NYPD has formed a new unit to track troublemakers who announce plans or brag about their crimes on Twitter,…
August 9, 2011
(AP) - Thanks to social networks like Twitter and Facebook, more and more so-called flash mobs are materializing across the…