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Janelle Griffith

Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.

Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.


Latest from Janelle Griffith

11d ago

Texas mother arrested and accused of mixing drink that sent son's classmate to hospital

A Texas woman has been arrested after her son's alleged bully was sent to the hospital after having consumed an "intentionally" mixed sports drink, according to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.
12d ago

San Francisco voters approve drug screening for welfare recipients

San Francisco voters showed strong support for a ballot measure that requires welfare recipients who receive aid from the city and are “reasonably” suspected of using drugs to be screened and enroll in treatment.
21d ago

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexual harassment and assault by producer on his latest album

Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones says “his life has been detrimentally impacted” since he worked with Combs.
21d ago

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexual harassment and assault by producer on his latest album

Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Monday in federal court by a producer on his most recent album, who accuses the music mogul of sexually harassing, drugging and threatening him over more than a year.

Diddy denies gang rape allegation in court documents

Sean “Diddy” Combs has denied in a legal filing that he raped a woman 20 years ago in a New York City recording studio when she was 17, as she alleged in a lawsuit filed in December.
26d ago

Diddy denies gang rape allegation in court documents

Sean “Diddy” Combs has denied in a legal filing that he raped a woman 20 years ago in a New York City recording studio when she was 17, as she alleged in a lawsuit filed in December.

Russell Simmons accused of rape in lawsuit filed by former Def Jam executive

A former senior executive at Def Jam Recordings said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that Russell Simmons raped her at his apartment in Manhattan in the late 1990s.
34d ago

Florida school asks parents for permission to have book by an African American author read to students

A Florida school district is drawing fire for asking parents to consent to having their children participate in the reading of an African American author’s book to comply with state law.
38d ago

A N.J. town has 24 officers. A fourth of them are suing the borough.

A mayor in New Jersey, who has been accused of racism and abusing her power, has asked the state’s attorney general to help manage the police department in a borough beset by lawsuits from its officers alleging abuse, bullying, discrimination and retaliation.
40d ago

Georgia baby’s decapitation during labor is ruled a homicide by medical examiner

The death of a Georgia couple’s baby who was decapitated during childbirth has been ruled a homicide, Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Tuesday.
40d ago

Four reported migrants who attacked NYPD officers have not been arrested in Arizona, officials say

Despite claims by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, four people taken into custody in Arizona are not the reported migrants who were recorded on video assaulting two police officers last month in Times Square.