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U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 19, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics. The st.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

Washington Post -- The number of violent crimes in the United States rose for a second straight year in 2006, marking the first sustained increase in homicides, robberies and other serious offenses since the early 1990s, according to an FBI report to be released Monday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 10:49am neoform

FOX News -- A pair of 16-year-old girls face hate crime charges after they allegedly handed out anti-gay fliers targeting a classmate at their northern Illinois high school. The girls were arrested May 11 after handing out fliers in the parking lot of Crystal Lake.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Apr 27, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

ABC News -- This past Tuesday the governor of Virginia announced he would close the loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to buy the guns he used to kill 32 people — and himself — on the Virginia Tech campus. OK, it's a good idea to keep guns out of the hands of pe.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 10:52am mrmdc

Sun Sentinel -- Criminal charges will not be filed against a Disney employee accused of hitting a teenager while in costume as the character ``Tigger,'' authorities said. The State Attorney's Office announced Thursday that it will not press charges against Michael J... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Feb 3, 2007 @ 2:54pm neoform

USA Today -- A 15-year-old girl has been arrested for taking nude photographs of her self and posting them on the Internet, police said... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 2, 2007 @ 11:24am mrmdc

ABC News -- A farmer who chased down a thief and held him at gunpoint until authorities arrived now faces a more serious charge than the thief himself... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Dec 3, 2006 @ 1:00am neoform

ABC News -- It was the shocking story — and unbelievable surveillance video — that riveted the nation. A young McDonald's employee humiliated, forced to strip and then to perform a sexual act in the back office, during her work day... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:10am neoform

SF Gate -- After citizens shot and wounded three suspected criminals in the past week, Oakland police acknowledged Tuesday that residents are fed up with crime and expressed understanding for two shopkeepers and a resident who they say fought back in self-defense... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 1, 2007 @ 11:12am neoform

Google Associated Press -- The tough Georgia law that sent Genarlow Wilson to prison for having oral sex with a fellow teenager has been watered down. But in Georgia — and in many other states — it's still a crime for teenagers to have sex, even if they're close in age. Lega.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 20, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

SF Gate -- Thirty-five years ago, a San Francisco school bus driver was convicted of shooting a uniformed officer with a pistol, seriously wounding him. Much has changed since then for Richard O'Neal, now 58. After serving four years in prison, he became a popula.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 18, 2007 @ 11:26am neoform

CNN -- It seemed like a good idea at the time. A gang of burglars decided in December 1977 to break into the home of Tony Accardo, one of the most powerful men in organized crime history, and rob his basement vault. Accardo was not amused. Six men Accardo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:17am neoform

Washington Post -- Violent crime in the District jumped nearly 9 percent last year, the latest police statistics show -- a big turnabout from earlier claims that the numbers had dropped from the previous year. Police revised the yearly crime tally after turning up major.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 4:39pm neoform

MSNBC -- A coroner testifying in Phil Spector’s murder trial acknowledged there were crime lab mistakes in evidence collection and handling including moving Lana Clarkson’s body, which ended up compromising evaluation of at least one item at the crime scene... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 10:21am neoform

FOX News -- A coroner testifying in Phil Spector's murder trial acknowledged there were crime lab mistakes in evidence collection and handling including moving Lana Clarkson's body, which ended up compromising evaluation of at least one item at the crime scene. Dr.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 10:04am neoform

CNN -- A coroner testifying in Phil Spector's murder trial acknowledged there were crime lab mistakes in evidence collection. The mistakes included moving Lana Clarkson's body, which ended up compromising evaluation of at least one item at the crime scene... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

FOX News -- Increasing violence among teenagers and other youths throughout the United States appears to have contributed to a countrywide crime spike, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Gangs and gun violence are partly to blame for the rise in crime that is on.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 8:30am neoform

Alter Net -- Media: Cho Seung-Hui did it because he was crazy and "evil." History: Schoolyard massacres are rebellions against oppressive and bullying environments by students who can't take it anymore. Another rampage massacre, this time the worst ever. Which mean.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Sat Apr 14, 2007 @ 11:29am neoform

Alter Net -- In the U.S., over 2.13 million people are incarcerated. Sasha Abramsky's new book, American Furies, explores the bloated prison system and its tremendous financial and moral cost to our society. The prison system in the U.S. stands alone in the modern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 12:46pm neoform

New York Times -- When a court-appointed special master last year rejected the claim of an Alabama couple that their daughter had suffered seizures after a vaccination, she explained her decision in part by referring to material from articles in Wikipedia, the collaborativ.. Read More