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Shermain Miles

Chicago woman has been arrested 396 times since 1978

NBC Chicago
NBC CHICAGO - Over the years, Shermain Miles, 51, was arrested 65 times for disorderly conduct and 59 times for crimes related to prostitution, among other things...
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Boston Marathoon Bombing suspects

One bombing suspect dead, suburbs locked down

Pete Williams, Richard Esposito, Michael Isikoff and Erin McClam, NBC News
NBC NEWS - With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives out the window...
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A Glynn County Sheriff's Deputy directs 17 year-old De Marquise Elkins out of the courtroom in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. after Elkin's first appearance hearing in Magistrate Court Monday, March 25, 2013. Elkins and a 15 year-old were arrested Friday, March 23 and charged by warrant in the shooting death of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago. (AP Photo/The Brunswick News/Bobby Haven)

2 teens plead not guilty in Ga. baby slaying

Russ Bynum, Associated Press
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Two Georgia teenagers pleaded not guilty Thursday to murdering a baby who was shot in the face during what authorities described as an attempted street robbery...
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Terrill Swift. (Photo courtesy of NBC Bay Area)

Wrongly convicted man gives back to police

Cheryl Hurd, NBC Bay Area
BAY AREA - Almost three years after being exonerated for a crime thanks to DNA evidence, Terrill Swift was invited to come to Hayward to be the keynote speaker for a law enforcement community summit...
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Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Javaris Crittenton (R) appears in Los Angeles Superior Court for an extradition hearing with his attorney Brian Steel August 31, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. The hearing wasin connection with a warrant from Atlanta charging him with murdering a 22-year-old woman. (Photo by Al Seib-Pool/Getty Images)

Ex-NBA player indicted on murder, gang charges

Adam Howard
ATLANTA (AP) - Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton has been indicted on charges of murder and gang activity...
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With police officers who solved the case behind him, Chicago Police Superintendant Garry McCarthy announces arrests have been made in the murder of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton during a press conference at Area Central on February 11, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Suspected gang members Micheail Ward and Kenneth Williams have been charged in the murder. McCarthy said the two thought they were shooting at rival gang members in retaliation for a July 2012 incident when Williams was shot. Hadiya's murder was the 44th murder in Chicago in January. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Are Chicago cops driving the murder rate down?

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - Dubbed the deadliest city in America, Chicago showed signs of improvement through the first quarter of 2013, a move Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy say is a direct result of a coordinated strategy among the city and police...
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Crime scene tape is seen outside the home of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland Monday, April 1, 2013, near Forney, Texas. McLelland and his wife Cynthia were murdered at their home Saturday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Suspicion in DA death shifts to white supremacists

Juan A. Lozano and Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press
KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors.
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Anton Watson (C) and other children participate in a peace vigil in the Washington Park neighborhood on November 30, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. About 75 children, teachers, and parents were joined by area residents and religious leaders as they marched in the streets to draw attention to the violence that plagues their Southside neighborhood. Through the end of October 436 people were murdered in Chicago, surpassing the 435 murders for all of 2011. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Murders fall 42 percent in Chicago

Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News
CHICAGO - Three months after Chicago notched the most murders in the nation, officials are touting a dramatic downturn in crime...
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NYPD Chief Philip Banks III (Photo courtesy of NBC New York)

African-American is highest-ranking NYPD officer

Colleen Long
NBC New York - The new highest-ranking uniformed officer at the NYPD said Friday the community must work together with police to keep the city safe...
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A Glynn County Sheriff's Deputy directs 17 year-old De Marquise Elkins out of the courtroom in the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. after Elkin's first appearance hearing in Magistrate Court Monday, March 25, 2013. Elkins and a 14 year-old were arrested Friday, March 23 and charged by warrant in the shooting death of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago. (AP Photo/The Brunswick News/Bobby Haven)

Baby murder brings racial tensions to the surface

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - Just days after two teenagers were charged with the murder of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago, the emotionally-charged case is starting to put a strain on race relations in the city of Brunswick...
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