The inmate population in an island prison in Venezuela “honored” the death of the inmates’ criminal leader by shooting what appear to be dozens of firearms into the sky on the prison’s roof, raising alarming questions regarding how the government has allowed the inmates to openly amass such an arsenal.
The University of Chicago has canceled classes and activities for Monday at its Hyde Park campus due to an FBI warning of an “online threat of gun violence.”
The 2-year-old son of a Palestinian official made his father proud when on Palestinian Authority television, he requested that Pops purchase a “machine gun and a rifle, so that I will defeat Israel and the Zionists.”
Among a slew of media sources on Friday trying to cast doubt on Dr. Ben Carson’s claims that early in life he turned himself around from a violence-prone childhood, CNN published a piece on Carson that seemed to downplay facts that would substantiate his claims.
Two Pittsburg Steelers players have been fined for wearing unauthorized decorations or colors to support personal causes, the NFL reported on Wednesday.
A man shot in the head outside the Dallas Cowboys’ Arlington, Texas stadium has died and now police look to charge the accused shooter with murder.
The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner recently wrapped up a visit to Mexico, describing his visit as “sobering.” Despite noting several legislative developments and reforms in the country, the Mexican people have painted a tragic picture filled with widespread corruption and insecurity.
Spencer Stone, an American serviceman who with two friends helped stop a jihadist attack on Paris-bound train, has been critically injured after being stabbed early Thursday morning in midtown Sacramento.
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.
California cops have arrested narco singer and NBC Universo reality star Larry Hernandez on kidnapping charges.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced an agreement with the head of the terrorist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) that will see the creation of a special tribunal to judge the crimes of terrorists, and in return, offer smaller punishments for “political” crimes.
A man was arrested in Des Moines, Iowa, for allegedly punching a cop, but the police report also contained an odd tidbit: the man was “chewing on a condom” when he attacked.
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.
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 53-year-old Humboldt County juvenile corrections officer who pleaded guilty in June to charges of possessing child pornography was sentenced to five years (60 months) in prison last week.
The death toll was decidedly low in Chicago this weekend with only one citizen killed from the city’s continuing gang warfare, but another 18 were wounded in incidents throughout the city. One man was even shot nine times and lived to tell about it.
A San Francisco-based hipster bicyclist who used a u-lock to attack a Zipcar during last month’s Critical Mass ride has been caught and charged. Ironically his t-shirt, which said “Non-violence is our strength,” was the key to his identification and capture.
On September 5, a couple with a 6-month-old baby in the car allegedly opened fire on Virginia Beach Police Officers and were killed when the officers returned fire.
Two young women have been apprehended and charged with spray-painting about a dozen graffiti images around Poplar Bluff, Missouri, of a gun pointing at the head of a police officer, authorities said Friday.
Black Lives Matter activists tried to disrupt the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday and marched down the street, shouting a chant that called for the deaths of police officers: “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon!”
The Washington Post reports that after a recent spike in murders, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser will ask the D.C. Council “to expand law enforcement powers to make it easier for officers to search individuals on parole or probation and immediately detain anyone found in violation of the terms of release.”
The violence in Chicago rose to fever-pitch level again over the weekend, with 32 wounded and four killed. While most of these shootings are gang-on-gang warfare, on Friday, the Chicago Police were involved in a shooting that wounded a 16-year-old.
This year has been the bloodiest, most violent in Baltimore for a generation with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and now two chiefs of police struggling for solutions. But now, federal agents are embedding with the Baltimore police department in the hopes of putting an end to the out-of-control violence.
A group that works to prevent domestic violence says that the NFL should give former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice a second chance.
In a free society we understand, cherish and protect the right of speech. All kinds of speech. Primarily offensive speech with which we disagree. In order to remain civilized, we draw a big red line between speech and violence. This
The city of Chicago is gearing up for a violent Independence Day holiday, and already on Friday, 12 were shot and five killed before evening even fell.
A recent article in The Economist reminds readers of the sobering reality that men are the primary victims of violence in the world and their situation is getting worse, not better.
One of the first weekends with nice weather in months brought violence with it as the toll of wounded in Chicago climbed to over 40 people.
As Baltimore fills the media with its tales of rioting and protests, Chicago remains a shooting gallery with another 21 shootings and four deaths over the weekend.
Acts of “inhuman violence” are emerging from the investigation into the recent shipwreck in Libyan waters, such as that of a boy who was killed for “standing without permission” on board the boat. His body was then thrown into the sea.
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting has picked up in eastern Ukraine after more than a month of relative calm, as diplomats gathered in Berlin on Monday to discuss the country’s crisis.
(Reuters) – Gunshots and explosions were heard and smoke was visible on Tuesday evening from a building where members of a Turkish far-left group have been holding a prosecutor hostage in Istanbul, a Reuters witness said.
A Boston police officer who was decorated for his actions during the Boston Marathon Bombing is recovering after being shot in the face in what has been called an “unprovoked attack.”
The human rights violations occurring in Venezuela– from thousands of arbitrary arrests to beatings and rapes to the murder of unarmed teenagers– have taken up little of the international spotlight in the past year. They have, however, increasingly caught the attention of human rights groups like Amnesty International, which details and condemns the abuses in a report released this week.
Chicago had its first warm weather of the year over the March 6 weekend, but as that warm weather returned, so did the violence, shootings, and death. Chicago police reported that 2 stabbings and 15 shootings occurred in their warming city; three died as a result.
A former police chief under Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has been arrested in Miami for allegedly sending a graphic execution video to several U.S. residents, threatening to kill them. Many of those alleging threats are open dissidents of Venezuela’s socialist regime.
Perhaps there’s a religious aspect to the Chapel Hill killings after all, if New Atheism is, in fact, a religion.
As the nation faced a wave of protests against police, Fresno’s Police Department saw a dramatic drop in the number of officer-involved shootings and use-of-force complaints in 2014, according to the city’s police auditor Richard Rasmussen this week.
Back in 2005, two business-school professors, Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins, published a thoughtful book, Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them. A decade later, we can look ahead to the Predictable Surprises of 2015—and beyond.
A new version of the standing travel advisory issued by the U.S. Department of State now includes a resort area that had remained relatively calm, but in recent months has seen a sharp spike in cartel violence.
