| Consumers duped by puppy scam http://www.newsday.com/news... Crime Articles Newsday - Warnings abound on many Web sites, including the Internet Crime Complaint Center and sites and e-mail lists of interest to dog lovers. The American Kennel Club and the Council of Better Business Bureaus have sent out warnings. The puppies are often ... |
| World Watch http://www.chicagotribune.c... Crime Articles Chicago Tribune - Istanbul is basking in the glow of a reduced crime rate revealed in a government report that shows crime for the first eight months of the year down 25 percent over the same period last year. —Larry Habegger More articles Copyright © 2007, Chicago ... |
| CONSUMER WATCH: A cautionary tale http://www.newsday.com/busi... Crime Articles Newsday - Last year, nearly 1.2 million cars were stolen nationwide, including 32,000 in New York, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a not-for-profit organization that helps insurers and law enforcement agencies identify and prosecute insurance ... |
| Death toll in Philippine mall blast rises to 11 as investigators doubt ... http://www.iht.com/articles... Crime Articles International Herald Tribune - The police crime laboratory office said a sample of debris tested positive for RDX, an ingredient of the high explosive C4, but that finding was being re-evaluated because all other samples from the blast site have tested negative for explosives ... |
| Old rhetoric, stale policies won't solve crime problem http://www.detnews.com/apps... Crime Articles Detroit News - Oakland, Calif., continues to suffer the high crime rate, and especially the high murder rate, which has long afflicted that city. Judging by a recent speech by its mayor, long-time leftist Ron Dellums, it can look forward to a future all too much ... |
| Overall crime rate decreases in third quarter http://www.sptimes.com/2007... Crime Articles St. Petersburg Times - According to the Uniform Crime Rate (UCR) report for the third quarter of 2007, St. Petersburg's overall crime rate has decreased 4.1 percent compared to the same period last year. That's good news, considering most large cities in Florida and the ... |
| Lucky Dube’s murder throws spotlight on to crime in South Africa http://www.timesonline.co.u... Crime Articles Times Online - Fans reacted with fury yesterday to the murder of Lucky Dube, the biggest reggae star in Africa, who was killed in a botched carjacking attempt on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Caller after caller, many in tears, rang in to early-morning radio shows ... |
| Death ends mystifying 'feud' with Joey Bishop http://www.newsday.com/ente... Crime Articles Newsday - It finally dawned on me that Joey thought I'd committed the same crime again. I remember saying, "Oh, now I know what you're talking about" and assured him I hadn't done it again. 1 2 next more in /entertainment Copyright © 2007, The Los Angeles Times |
| In a batch of first novels, practitioners in other fields focus on ... http://www.washingtonpost.c... Crime Articles Washington Post - P-town proves a plum setting for lighthearted crime, with its frenzied real-estate wars, its 24-karat oddballs and its inexhaustible supply of "tall ships," the heterosexual transvestites who vacation there with their stoic wives. (The Rev. Merkin ... |
| Seduced by Death http://www.washingtonpost.c... Crime Articles 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 ... |