Gun Violence

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August 12, 2013
NBC Chicago - A 4-year-old girl was shot in a drive-by shooting Sunday night in a car on Chicago's Northwest…
August 9, 2013
CHICAGO - A day after Chicago Public Schools parents bemoaned the lack of information about the city's "Safe Passage" program,…
August 5, 2013
NBC Chicago - A 6-year-old boy riding in a car with his mom was among 21 shot, two fatally, since…
August 2, 2013
NBC NEWS - A majority of Americans support “Stand Your Ground” laws, according to a new national Quinnipiac University poll…
July 31, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court says Oscar Grant's father can sue the Northern California transit officer who…
July 30, 2013
NBC Chicago - A four-year-old girl was wounded Monday afternoon when bullets flew as she played with other children in…
July 30, 2013
NBC NEWS - It has been six months since Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton’s daughter, Hadiya Pendleton, was shot and killed in a…
July 30, 2013
OPINION - With the ink on the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict barely dry, another state appears ready to consider…
July 29, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - If there were any indications that Chicago was in a state of emergency, it was the bloody…
July 26, 2013
MSNBC - While Congress tangled over gun control legislation earlier this year after the killings in Newtown, gun violence in…
July 26, 2013
LONG BEACH - A 23-year-old mother was shot and killed in Long Beach Thursday morning on her son's third birthday,…
July 26, 2013
OPINION - 'Frutivale Station' is arguably the most powerful African-American movie of the last 10 years and it would be…
July 24, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Jordan's parents can't help to see the similarities between their son's killing and that of Trayvon Martin...
July 24, 2013
MSNBC - George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin. Marissa Alexander received a 20-year sentence for firing what she…
July 22, 2013
NBC CHICAGO - Six people were killed and at least 22 others were injured, including a 6-year-old girl, in weekend…
July 19, 2013
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man knew exactly what he was doing when he accused his teenage neighbor of burglary…
July 19, 2013
NBC NEWS - Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday told a group of protesters that he will not call for…
July 18, 2013
NBC NEWS- Stand Your Ground laws — sometimes referred to as 'Shoot First' laws by detractors — change the legal…
July 17, 2013
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man who suspected his 13-year-old neighbor of breaking into his home and stealing weapons was…
July 16, 2013
ANALYSIS - Holder, the first-ever black attorney general, has not made racial issues the sole focus of his often-embattled five…