Crime

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July 6, 2011
OPINION - The case struck a nerve on what is colloquially called "black Twitter" because it reminds us of a…
June 30, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - One in every 20 federal prisoners could be eligible for early release under a potential sentencing change…
June 30, 2011
OPINION - A research study published by Vanderbilt University sociologist Evelyn Patterson in 2010 shows state prisons are having a…
June 21, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A court-appointed monitor will oversee the use of "stop and frisk" searches by city police...
June 16, 2011
VIDEO - A Florida man took his frustration of being broke, out on an ATM machine...
June 15, 2011
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Bonnie Sweeten, of Feasterville, has been incarcerated for two years since calling 911 and reporting that two…
June 15, 2011
GREENSBORO - JoAnne Foster received $2,628 in food stamps from the Alamance County Department of Social Services through identity theft...
June 14, 2011
Bidemi Bello, a Nigerian citizen, was convicted on charges she imported two young women from Nigeria to serve as modern-day…
June 13, 2011
PHILADELPHIA - 43-year-old Edward Gause was arrested Saturday night for fatally beating an elderly neighbor of Philadelphia's mayor...
June 13, 2011
VIDEO - A jury in Dallas will decide whether a man convicted in the fatal shooting of a police officer…
June 10, 2011
CONNECTICUT - All seven people were walking the street and agreed to perform a sex act in exchange for money...
June 9, 2011
MIAMI - A Miami-Dade County bus driver was beaten with a belt by a passenger who was upset he actually…
June 8, 2011
VIDEO - Florida supermarket is crying foul after a bizarre shoplifting incident When two women, unloaded 75 sticks of deodorant…
June 8, 2011
OPINION - The fed crackdown on the Azusa street gangs by itself won't stop hate attacks on blacks...
June 7, 2011
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Latino gang conspired to rid a Southern California city of its black residents through intimidation,…
June 6, 2011
WASHINGTON - While parishioners in the front were worshiping, a pair of men were in the back of the church…
June 6, 2011
NEW YORK - Cops say the 39-year-old victim was walking along the bridal path next to the reservoir at East…
June 3, 2011
DALLAS-FORT WORTH - Raymond Anthony Washington, 20, and Daniel James Ramsour, 17, will be charged with murder in connection to…
June 1, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Holder was testifying before the U.S. Sentencing Commission, which oversees the guidelines that help federal judges sentence…
May 23, 2011
Ray Lewis has a more interesting sociological theory, however, in that he believes general crime will rise if the lockout…