
Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has maintained since the beginning of the controversy over the 2014 death of a 17-year-old African American teen that he had little knowledge of the police dashcam video of the shooting. But new evidence shows that Emanuel was fully informed about what the video contained and led his lawyers to quash the release of the video just as he was running for re-election.
by Warner Todd Huston7 Jan 2016, 11:05 AM PST0

A city councilman from a south Texas city has been arrested and charged with smuggling illegal immigrants across the border.
by Warner Todd Huston6 Jan 2016, 3:11 PM PST0

Authorities have revealed that a drunk driver in New York who caused an accident that seriously injured two people on Christmas Eve is an illegal alien who had been previously deported.
by Warner Todd Huston5 Jan 2016, 12:40 PM PST0

A California Domino’s pizza delivery man was arrested and charged with stabbing a customer after the two argued over the delay in the food’s delivery and the customer’s subsequently small tip.
by Warner Todd Huston4 Jan 2016, 6:28 PM PST0

Police report the arrest of a man with “several weapons” in his car in the employee parking lot at Gillette Stadium just before the NHL Winter Classic began in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
by Warner Todd Huston3 Jan 2016, 10:21 AM PST0

A Wisconsin farm worker admitted to police that he had sexual relations with a donkey at the barn where he worked. But the man had an excuse. His “privates were out of control,” he insisted.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jan 2016, 7:27 PM PST0

As the nation celebrated New Year’s Day, most spending the day off work with family, the denizens of Chicago were working overtime to rack up victims. This year, on New Year’s Day, Chicago gang warfare racked up 2 deaths and 15 shot.
by Warner Todd Huston1 Jan 2016, 6:38 PM PST0

Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.
by Warner Todd Huston31 Dec 2015, 7:14 PM PST0

Three basketball players at a Tennessee high school have been accused of the rape and aggravated assault of a 15-year-old teammate after the teen collapsed following a hazing incident, authorities say.
by Warner Todd Huston31 Dec 2015, 12:30 AM PST0

A mailman in Queens is being accused of throwing away dozens of pieces of mail and Christmas packages instead of delivering them, all because the high amount of mail “overwhelmed” him, court documents say.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Dec 2015, 9:42 PM PST0

A Florida woman is behind bars after police charged her with killing her 3-year-old son and stuffing his body in a suitcase.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Dec 2015, 7:07 PM PST0

Only about 20 percent of Chicago police officers carry Tasers on patrol, but now, after a series of high profile police shootings, Chicago’s police superintendent has ordered that all officers be equipped with Tasers starting next year.
by Warner Todd Huston30 Dec 2015, 2:50 PM PST0

In a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, scientists from the University of California, Davis and the Harvard University Center for the Environment suggest that violent crime is precipitated by air pollution.
by William Bigelow30 Dec 2015, 9:18 AM PST0

Police in New York are searching for a man suspected of raping a 10-year-old Brooklyn girl causing the victim extensive physical damage that required surgery.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Dec 2015, 10:07 PM PST0

Police are searching for information leading to the arrest of an African-American man accused of masturbating for over 30 minutes while leering at a female commuter on New York’s No. 2 train last weekend.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Dec 2015, 6:01 PM PST0

A top aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was physically assaulted while attending a vigil for two people killed by Chicago police officers.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Dec 2015, 1:55 PM PST0

A man died on Christmas Day in Germany after he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal from a condom machine that he and two accomplices blew up in an apparent robbery attempt, police said on
by Reuters29 Dec 2015, 5:37 AM PST0

A year-long Washington Post investigation revealed that the high-profile deaths that spark so much media and activist attention—”white police officers killing unarmed black men—represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.”
by Jerome Hudson28 Dec 2015, 8:29 PM PST0

As December nears its end and so with it the year 2015, the number of homicides in Baltimore has surged to its highest rate since the 1990s with 340 deaths as of Monday, December 29.
by Warner Todd Huston28 Dec 2015, 2:09 PM PST0

A mall outside Louisville, Kentucky was forced to shut down on Saturday night as hundreds of black teens went on a rampage, running through the St. Matthews Mall until being forced out by police. At 8:00 pm on the day after Christmas–one of the busiest days of the year at malls across America–management decided to shut the mall down after the “wilding” incident began.
by Lee Stranahan28 Dec 2015, 8:47 AM PST0

As women’s issues become part of the 2016 presidential race, it may be instructive to review recent statements made by some of Bill Clinton’s alleged female victims regarding the ambitions of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Last week, Hillary accused Republican canddiate Donald Trump
by Aaron Klein28 Dec 2015, 5:26 AM PST0

In its first police involved shooting since the Chicago Police Department released dashcam video of the death of teenager Laquan McDonald, police shot and killed two residents–one likely by accident–during a domestic disturbance call on the city’s West Side.
by Warner Todd Huston27 Dec 2015, 8:29 AM PST0

As most citizens of the Windy City were gearing up for Christmas Day, others were still engaging in gangland shootings, and in the 48 hours leading up to the blessed day, three people were killed and seven were wounded—including a well-known local rap artist.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Dec 2015, 8:31 PM PST0

As former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez appeared in court for the pre-trial hearings on yet another murder charge, the court got a look at the former player’s new tattoo and it isn’t one likely to sit well with either officials or perhaps even a jury.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Dec 2015, 12:11 AM PST0

A Florida woman was arrested for attacking her sleeping husband for passing gas in bed, police say.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Dec 2015, 10:02 PM PST0