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March 22, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Whitney Houston was a chronic cocaine user who had the drug in her system when she…
December 27, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - According to the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, nearly six out of ten children in Detroit will never…
July 18, 2011
VIDEO - For the parents of three-year-old Maliki Sessions, their guardian angel came in the form of 911 dispatcher.
June 30, 2011
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - Authorities have closed all 30 state-run deep water public swimming pools in Massachusetts after a…
June 14, 2011
The Kansas City Chiefs tight end came to the rescue last weekend, saving six-year-old Bryson Moore from drowning in a…
April 15, 2011
NEW YORK - "He asked me, 'Auntie can you bring me down to the water?'" she said. "I let him…
April 13, 2011
NEWBURGH, New York (AP) - Police say Lashanda Armstrong drove the minivan into the river in the city of Newburgh…
August 20, 2010
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - The boys were dressed in matching white tuxedos. Some people dropped off stuffed animals, books and…
August 19, 2010
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - The red evidence tape has been removed, yet the horror of what police say happened inside…
August 18, 2010
ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (AP) - "She's tearful, as anybody would be under these circumstances," defense attorney Carl B. Grant said…
August 18, 2010
ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (AP) - Broke, jobless and berated by her mother for her failings, Shaquan Duley suffocated her young…
August 17, 2010
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) - Murder charges expected to be filed against Shaquan Duley, the mother of two young boys who…
August 16, 2010
VIDEO - In an effort to prevent childhood drownings, some pediatricians are prescribing swimming lessons for children under the age…
August 4, 2010
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - Christopher Patlan was hanging out with friends on the Red River when he heard the desperate…
August 3, 2010
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - 'They had one lifejacket here. As you can imagine, everybody started yelling for help. Nobody could…
August 3, 2010
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) - A study released in May that showed 69 percent of black children and 58 percent…
July 26, 2010
VIDEO - Even after the formal end of segregation, John and Bradford Tatum, said they still didn't feel welcome swimming…
July 15, 2010
OPINION - Not only do most black kids not know how to swim, the concept of 'most' is not an…