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  • 10
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    2012
    1:46pm, EDT

    Trayvon Martin family upset over moving of curbside memorial

    By msnbc.com staff

    Items left a curbside memorial to slain teen Trayvon Martin have been collected by the city of Sanford, Fla., upsetting the Martin family, theGrio.com reports.

    A city statement said the family had been consulted before the items were taken to the Sanford Museum, but an attorney for Martin's parents said that's not true, theGrio reported. The site said that Francis Oliver, who runs the black history museum in Sanford’s Goldsboro neighborhood, says the city asked to move the memorial there, even though Martin was killed in a mixed-race neighborhood in the city.

    Read more on theGrio.com report here.

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    honest to God--who cares---painstaking that the boy died young, but, get it over with

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    2:50pm, EDT

    Woman who was kidnapped, set on fire and shot gives birth

    A woman was shot and set ablaze by a boyfriend, who police believe was trying to avoid fatherhood. WDIV-TV's Marc Santia reports.

    By msnbc.com staff

    A pregnant Detroit woman who police say was kidnapped, set on fire and shot early Saturday has given birth to a baby boy, according to media reports.


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    NBC station WDIV reported that LaTonya Bowman, 22, gave birth Tuesday morning at a hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.


    “She has to be one of the most courageous women I have ever encountered,” Warren Police Deputy Commissioner Louis Galasso said. “She had the will and instinct to live.”

    TheGrio.com has more on the arrest of the child's father and his roommate in the case.

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    8 comments

    May God pour out his blessings always on that mother. Who has proven she will stop at nothing to protect her child.What a creep and monster that tried to kill them both.Obviously she did the right thing dumping him earlier. That baby boy will always have a reminder when he sees his mother as he grow …

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