Chicago reached 59 murders and 362 gunshot victims in September, marking the Democratic-run city’s deadliest month since 2002, according to analysis by The Chicago Tribune. The last month of summer featured more homicides than any other month this year, and
The owner of a Worcester, MA, convenience store has been arrested and charged with allegedly running a $3.6 million food stamp fraud scheme since 2010.
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
19 people were shot last weekend in Los Angeles, and five were killed, as the city’s homicide rate continues to rise, despite a program instituted and championed by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to reduce crime in the city.
There has been a dramatic rise in urban gun crime across the UK in the past 12 months, leaping by nearly a quarter in London, statistics reveal. The rise coincides with increases in stabbings, knife possession and serious youth violence
FAIRFAX, Va. – Four years ago, Michael Edwards pleaded guilty to squirting his own bodily fluid from bottles onto women in Maryland stores. He was caught on camera and through DNA evidence. The prosecution recommended jail time, but the Montgomery County judge gave him three years of probation.
Perhaps one of the most significant changes to the UK criminal justice system in the twentieth century was the suspension of capital punishment in 1965 in Great Britain. This was followed by its permanent abolition in 1969. The British public
The violence in Chicago did not stop even for a minute during the beautifully cool weekend that featured a “Blood Moon” and first supermoon eclipse in over 30 years. With 53 wounded, including a ten-year-old girl, and four killed during the weekend, the moon was not the only place for blood in the Windy City.
HIGH POINT, N.C. — FOX8 obtained the arrest warrant of the suspect accused of rape at High Point Central High School this week.
A man arrested for spanking a woman on the street in New Orleans claims that he acted in self-defense, reports say.
An illegal alien, identified helpfully as a “man” in the local news headline, allegedly raped a woman after luring her into his apartment in New Orleans.
Officials in Santa Clara, California consider a ban on selling alcohol after halftime at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium after a violent beating of a visiting fan, reports say.
Even for a city used to high crime and violence, with 42 wounded and six dead, the toll of violence was high in Chicago over the last three days.
A teenager in North Carolina was arrested and then prosecuted as an adult for allegedly having nude photos of himself on his own cell phone.
On September 20, a 26-year-old man allegedly opened fire in a church in East Selma, Alabama, wounding his girlfriend, their baby, and the church’s pastor.
Richard Kirk, 49, of Denver, who murdered his wife while high on marijuana candy on April 14, 2014, has changed his plea of not guilty to a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
The Jacksonville, Florida, Sheriff’s department recently announced the arrest of a woman for smoking meth in her car, which was parked near the city’s Social Security offices. Shockingly, as she took the drug the woman’s baby was resting in her lap, police said.
Authorities have identified and charged the woman said to have disrupted an American Airlines flight on Monday, causing the plane to make an emergency landing in Indianapolis.
Weekends aren’t the only days that see a heavy toll of violence in Chicago. On Tuesday of this week, for instance, 15 were shot in one day. One shooting befell a middle-aged woman who was just taking her trash cans to the curb.
A man in Jackson, Mississippi, was sentenced Monday for the 2011 rape of his girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter, the courts reported this week.
Fournier could not be reached for comment, but an online search showed that she is a former English teacher at Oakland Community College who used her home to lash out against both OCC and her feelings about religious institutions she dealt with.
A North Carolina woman was arrested and charged with “malicious castration” after biting her boyfriend’s testicles and severely injuring him during an argument, police say.
Police arrested a Bronx woman for letting her two pit bull dogs off their leash and ordering them to attack a man with whom she claimed she was arguing, causing him severe injuries and leaving him in a pool of his own blood.
Crime suspects freed on bail pending their trials were responsible for an estimated 84,019 offences in 2014. At a rate of approximately 230 crimes every day that averages out at one crime every six and a half minutes, all preventable had the bailed suspects been locked up while awaiting
On Wednesday, a 13-year-old Maryland boy was arrested for stealing a kiss from a female classmate at school, police report. The boy told authorities he sneaked the kiss on a dare from other kids.
