Witness Gives Stirring Tale of Stabbing in Trial of Alleged Murderer
A victim of a near-fatal knife attack in Michigan testified this week against a man facing several counts of murder for a series of random stabbings in and around the city of Flint in 2010, according...
View ArticleSexual Abuse Victim Faces Trial for Beating Allegedly Abusive Priest
A man who claims he was sexually abused by a priest is facing trial this week on charges that he beat the same priest, now very elderly, in front of shocked witnesses at a retirement home, according to...
View ArticleFormer Officers Claim That NYPD Falsifies its Crime Statistics
Police officers with the New York Police Department are routinely pressured to downgrade certain crimes to lesser offenses in their official reports, according to an investigative report from New York...
View ArticleSon of British Billionaire Suspected of Murdering his American Wife
The husband of one of Britain’s wealthiest women has been arrested by London police after authorities grew suspicious of his role in the murder of his wife, according to a recent report from Fox News....
View ArticleAttorney General Eric Holder Labels Sikh Temple Shooting a Hate Crime
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder clarified the federal government’s position on the recent shooting of six people at a Sikh temple by claiming that the attack was “an act of terrorism, an act of...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous States to Live In
In 2009, for every 100,000 people in the Unites States, there were 439.7 violent crimes (including homicide) and 3,071.5 property crimes. But some states have remarkably higher crime rates than others....
View ArticleOver 30 White Supremacist Gang Members Charged
By Bob Negele Four of the leaders of the “Aryan Brotherhood of Texas,” a white supremacists gang located in Texas, have been charged along with nearly three dozen fellow gang members. According to a...
View ArticleJoseph Moreno, former County Commissioner, Charged with Bribery
By Bob Negele Joseph Mario Moreno, former Cook County commissioner, is reportedly in plea talks with federal prosecutors after being charged with bribery. According to the report, Moreno was quoted as...
View ArticleGang Funeral Violence in Chicago “Way Out of Control”
By Bob Negele It’s no secret that murders in Chicago are way up this year. It’s also fairly well understood that many, if not most, of these crimes are attributable to gang violence. A recent article...
View Article2 Inmates Escape Chicago Prison
By Bob Negele Two men have escaped from a federal prison located in downtown Chicago, only a few blocks from the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower). A recent article in the Chicago Tribune is...
View ArticleState and Federal Police Launch Search for Boston Marathon Bomber
State and federal police have asked spectators and participants at the Boston Marathon for amateur footage that might offer evidence pointing to the culprit behind Monday’s bombings, according to a CBS...
View ArticleCan Google Maps Help Solve Crimes?
By Mary Ann Pekara Recently there has been an image circulating the internet of coordinates on Google Maps, in the Netherlands, that depict what resembles a bloody body being dragged to the end of a...
View ArticleBombing Suspects: 1 Dead, 1 At Large
By Mary Ann Pekara Chaos continues in the Boston area, post-marathon bombings, as last night one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed. The other suspect, his younger brother, Dzhokhar...
View ArticleTeenage Girls Charged With Armed Robbery After Ketchup Attack
Three teenage girls in Palatine, Illinois were charged with armed robbery after allegedly assaulting a younger boy with glass ketchup bottles, according to a bizarre report from the Chicago Sun-Times....
View ArticleCollege Baseball Player Randomly Killed in Oklahoma
By Mary Ann Pekara A catcher at East Central University, Christopher Lane, was shot and killed Friday in the town of Duncan, Oklahoma. Lane, a 22 year old man from Melbourne, Australia, was out for a...
View ArticleLong Island Beheading Not Halloween Prank
A woman in her 60s was found beheaded on a Long Island street just before a man stepped in front of a commuter rail track in Long Island, New York, according to local police. Nassau County Police...
View ArticleArrest in Fatal Halloween Hit-And-Run of Three Teens
Santa Ana Police have arrested a 31-year-old man in connection with a fatal hit-and run that killed three teenage girls who were trick or treating near Los Angeles on Halloween. Jaquinn Bell was...
View ArticleNYC Subway Murder Suspect Arrested and Charged
New York police have arrested a man in the fatal pushing of a subway rider in the Bronx late Tuesday after he was identified by a previous victim. Kevin Darden, 34, was charged with murder in the death...
View ArticleNYPD Shooting of Unarmed Brooklyn Man Ruled Homicide
The death of an unarmed Brooklyn father who was shot by a rookie NYPD police officer in an apartment stairwell has been ruled a homicide. Akai Gurley, 28, and his girlfriend walked into a darkened...
View ArticleMan Charged in Detroit Foreclosure Double Homicide
A man was charged Monday in relation to a Detroit double homicide at a foreclosed home in the city’s Rosedale Park district. Alonzo Long Jr., 22, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, one...
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