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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 Tue Feb 20, 2007 @ 12:56pm neoform

Ars Technica -- A draft report from the Federal Communications Commission raises the possibility that the FCC may act to clamp down on violent content on prime-time television—provided it gets the green light from Congress. Currently, the FCC has the authority to regul.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A member of a notoriously violent street gang was arrested and booked Wednesday on three counts of murder in the shootings of a San Francisco father and two sons in the city's Excelsior district that police believe stemmed from a minor traffic incident, a.. 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 Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:32pm neoform

FOX News -- Three youth sex offenders considered violent offenders ran out of a Jonesboro treatment center late Thursday night, accompanied by three girls, prompting a police search, a state official said. Marcus Galloway, Shawn Hester and Richard Richards, all 17.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri May 11, 2007 @ 1:19pm neoform

New York Times -- The United States made a disastrous miscalculation when it started automatically trying youthful offenders as adults instead of handling them through the juvenile courts. Prosecutors argued that the policy would get violent predators off the streets and d.. Read More