Crime Articles

Seattle Times - It's a very complicated and extensive crime scene. We have to go through this methodically," said Cpl. Dale Carr, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. Emergency personnel originally thought there was a gas leak at the building Friday because ...

USA Today - MOKANE, Mo. (AP) — A fifth-grader walked out of class and went on a crime spree, stealing weapons from a central Missouri farm and shooting at three people who tried to confront him, wounding a school official, authorities said Thursday. School ...

Miami Herald - Prosecutors plan to drop hate-crime charges against five teens who brawled with a black college student last month at Haulover Beach Park Marina. Stephen Barrett, 18, told prosecutors that instigator Eiichi Kitsuya, 15, who tangled with him, did not ...

Newsday - Binghamton police took another look at the fire scene evidence after Ray was charged in March with a rape but did not turn up evidence he was involved or that a crime had been committed. Ray, 57, a former captain in the Binghamton police auxiliary ...

BBC UK News - A woman who killed her disabled daughter reported several cases of anti-social behaviour before setting fire to her car, police said. Fiona Pilkington, 38, apparently murdered her daughter Francesca Hardwick and killed herself on Tuesday in a lay-by ...

Washington Post - ... appear to Adam as a specter glimpsed in a mirror or reflected in the bathtub water; instead, the dead boy, naked and wearing the grit of the grave between his teeth, climbs onto Adam's back and rides him through the woods to the abandoned crime scene ...

Boston Globe - Operation Greensboro has launched an Internet campaign to enlist high school and college students and is urging Governor Deval Patrick to take steps to reducing inner-city crime. Peterson, 16, said the threat of violence in the city's most dangerous ...

New York Daily News - A 20-year-old man was smacked in the face with a baseball bat on Staten Island in what police are calling a possible hate crime. The victim, who is black, was hanging out with a group of friends near the corner of Simonson Ave. and Heusden St. in ...

BBC News - There were 1,825 gun-enabled crimes between April and September 2007, up 162 on the same period last year. However, firearms offences in the black community have fallen by about 10% from 131 to 119 over the same period. Overall, crime in London has ...

NPR News - News & Notes , October 18, 2007 · Are the repeated incidents involving nooses indicate an increase in racism? We talk about what they mean and how communities should react. Farai Chideya talks with Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at ...