A grand jury has indicted 17 people and a corporation on charges of identity theft, worldwide trafficking in stolen credit card numbers and other crimes committed using the Internet, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Dozens of immigrants were fleeing their shantytown homes on the outskirts of Rome Friday after a string of attacks blamed on foreigners prompted authorities to crack down on camps inhabited mainly by Gypsies.
A former communist prosecutor was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday for misusing her office in the 1950s by ordering the executions of four activists, a court spokesman said.
A woman who was raped and beaten near a Gypsy camp allegedly by a Romanian died Thursday night, state radio reported. The latest attack blamed on a foreigner has prompted the government to give authorities the power to expel EU immigrants deemed dangerous.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported to authorities Friday an e-mail circulating to employers that alleges to be a harassment complaint from the federal agency and contains links to a computer virus.
The city's police chief wants the Louisiana National Guard to stay past its mid-January pullout date to help bring down a soaring crime rate, but Gov. Kathleen Blanco does not have the authority to keep the troops in place after she leaves office.
A man who tried to fend off gay-bashing charges by telling a jury that he is also gay was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime Thursday in an attack at a remote city beach.
Current European laws are not enough for tackling organized crime syndicates, an Italian prosecutor said Monday, claiming groups like the southern Italian 'ndrangheta were no longer domestic problems but were now active abroad.
Michael Sandy's killing had all the hallmarks of a hate crime: a gay man ambushed by a group of men, then chased into the path of a speeding car.
A mother beheaded by her son. A baby who suffocated after being stuffed by his parents in the baggage compartment of a motorbike while they went gambling. A murderous shooting spree during a hostage standoff.
Campaigning in 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush would repeatedly raise his right hand as if taking an oath and vow to "restore honor and integrity" to the White House. He pledged to usher in a new era of bipartisanship.
Members of Congress, hearing horror stories Tuesday about crime aboard cruise ships, said legislation might be needed to guard against lawlessness on the open seas.
The murder rate jumped by more than 10 percent among dozens of large U.S. cities since 2004, a study shows in the latest sign of the end of a national lull in violent crime.
President Felipe Calderon pledged "a hard and difficult battle" against gangs Wednesday, a day after gunmen wounded the top security official in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco and killed his driver.
Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot.
Activity patterns in the green regions of the brain scan revealed the subject’s covert intentions before he began to perform the calculation (Image: Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience)
Former FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford's sentencing on charges he lied about his stock holdings was delayed Tuesday over questions about sentencing guidelines.
A criminal defense attorney has been arrested on a disorderly conduct charge involving kissing as a crime.
There's nobody nice on this Christmas list: snowman stabbers, Grinch snatchers, wreath-robbing weasels. 'Tis the season for strange crimes by even stranger people, with police blotters expanding faster than a 6-year-old's wish list of gifts.
Murders and robberies continued to rise across the country during the first six months of 2006, preliminary FBI data released Monday show, indicating that the lull in crime between 2001 and 2004 appears to be over.
With five dead bodies found in just 10 days, British police are describing the murders of prostitutes in the east of England as “a crime in action”.
Police arrested about 90 alleged organized crime figures early Wednesday, including the father of a man who faces charges related to the killing of members of the Bonanno crime family in New York.
A list of the safest and most dangerous cities overall, as compiled by Morgan Quitno Press, which bases the rankings on FBI figures released in June. The list starts with the safest cities and ends with the most dangerous.
A surge in violence made St. Louis the most dangerous city in the country, leading a trend of violent crimes rising much faster in the Midwest than in the rest of nation, according to an annual list.
A Jewish settler convicted of murdering four Palestinians and injuring a fifth in an attack he hoped would prevent Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last year was sentenced Wednesday to four consecutive life terms plus an additional 12 years in prison.