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OKLAHOMA — In a controversial court case, an Oklahoma pharmacist was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with parole for shooting a Black teenager in a 2009 robbery attempt. Jerome Ersland told the court he was defending himself when he shot Antwun Parker, 16, after Parker and another young man confronted […]

Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams estimates that the city has saved an estimated $2 million since his office decided to prosecute certain marijuana possession cases as a summary offense, rather than misdemeanors. Williams instituted the Small Amount of Marijuana (SAM) program in June 2010, which allows offenders with less than 30 grams of marijuana topay […]

Former President Bill Clinton reportedly made more than $75 million in speaking engagements in the last decade, according to an analysis of financial disclosure filed by his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In the year 2010, Clinton earned $10.7 million dollars for 52 speaking engagements, and reportedly earned an additional $15 million advancement for […]

MEMPHIS–A Memphis mother is angered with Galilee Memorial Gardens, for failing to identify her deceased newborn child’s grave site in a desired time. The Grio Reports: The men at the cemetery could not identify the grave site since they were out of town until 6 pm on Thursday. They marked the grave early the next […]

CHICAGO — The former director of a historic Black cemetery south of Chicago was convicted Friday in a money-making scheme that involved digging up bodies and reselling plots, a development that left still-bitter relatives reliving the grief of not knowing their loved ones’ final resting place. The Grio Reports: Carolyn Towns, 51, of Blue Island, […]

While large babies are normally praised in some cultures, there are various health risks that come along with giving birth to them, for both the child and mother. The Grio Reports: Babies born larger than 9 pounds 15 ounces have a much higher risk of complications. As many as 10 percent of newborn babies weigh-in […]

First Lady Michelle Obama has been criticized for ordering a highly caloric meal, at a combined count of 1,700 calories, at a new Shake Shack in Washington D.C. Mrs. Obama, who is the spearhead of the Let’s Move! campaign, geared toward the end to childhood obesity and exercise awareness, has been criticized for ordering a […]

Even 20 years later, the first minute of Boyz n the Hood, the near-iconic movie about young black men struggling to survive the concrete jungle of South Central Los Angeles, can be a jarring experience. There are no pictures, just sounds and words thrust onto a pitch black screen that are symbolic of the bleakness […]

NEW YORK — Frank DeTucci, a 70-year-old prison chaplain at the Queensboro Correctional Facility has admitted to paying an inmate to let him perform oral sex on him. The New York Daily News reports: When questioned, DeTucci admitted that on July 5 he paid the same inmate $120 and $150 on two separate occasions to […]

SANFORD, Fla.  — A central Florida woman says she’s having numerous financial troubles because of a bank error that caused Chase Bank USA to declare her dead last November. Wrenella Pierre has filed a lawsuit and Chase officials said Monday they’re investigating how the mistake happened. When Pierre and her husband built their home in […]

ATLANTA — The fallout from the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal continued to spread as four area superintendents were replaced and a school district in Texas put the superintendent it recently hired from Georgia on paid leave. Interim Superintendent Erroll Davis replaced the four superintendents late Monday, hours before trustees of the DeSoto Independent School […]

Veteran New York Times journalist Sheila Rule found the man of her dreams in one of the most unlikely places– a prison. Rule began communicating with her husband, the then convict, through a church pen-pal program in 2003. They married in 2005. Rule said she was so inspired by the many men and women she […]