• Crime Alert Berks Crime of Week 4/28/24: Exeter police seek shoplifting suspects

    Exeter Township police are seeking to identify two people who have been shoplifting in the area, including the Giant store on Perkiomen Avenue in the township.

  • The "Twinkie defense": What we know about diet and crime

    In 1978, Dan White murdered San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Of this, there was no doubt. White had turned himself in, then tearfully and remorsefully confessed to shooting each of the men — his former colleagues — multiple times. At White’s 1979 trial, the only question was how stiff his penalty would be. White’s lawyers ran a skillful defense during the court proceedings. They claimed that their client’s mental capacity was diminished by stress and severe...

  • California Democrats Keep Being the Victims of Crime

    A string of prominent California Democrats has been the victim or alleged victim of crime over the past few years raising fresh concerns about law and order in the Golden State.On Thursday, thieves broke into the car of longtime Rep. Adam Schiff—a House Democrat who is currently running for the open Senate seat in California—and stole several bags, including one with his business clothes inside, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.Two days earlier, a fight broke out between San Jose...

  • Finland looks to crackdown on gang crime

    The government has announced 43 measures it says will reduce youth and gang crime.

  • Cheating has become the ultimate crime online

    Taylor Swift fans speculated that her ex Joe Alwyn cheated on her. To Swifties, cheating is the ultimate crime.

  • Should Harming the Planet Be a Crime? The Case for Ecocide Laws

    On December 3, 2019, the Pacific island state of Vanuatu made an audacious proposal: Make ecocide—the destruction of nature—an international crime. “An amendment of the Rome Statute could criminalize acts that amount to ecocide,” stated Ambassador of Vanuatu John Licht at the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) annual Assembly of States Parties in the Hague. He More

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    Local crime survivors gather for healing vigil

    HOLT, Mich. (WLNS) -- Emotional stories from crime survivors are helping to support other victims in their healing process. Advocates gathered for a vigil in Holt on Saturday. As people across the country mark National Crime Victims' Rights Week, victims and survivors in the Lansing area are looking to advance their healing process, while also []

  • Trump Faces 34 Felonies at Trial. But Was There a Crime?

    I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. Manhattan Read More

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    Crime Stoppers: 3 wanted on felony warrants

    This week on Crime Stoppers, law enforcement needs your help locating three individuals wanted on felony warrants.

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    Man charged with multiple crimes after domestic disturbance

    A man has been arrested and charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony after West Virginia State Police troopers were called to a domestic disturbance Monday.

  • Editorial: The Supreme Court cannot allow homelessness to be a crime

    If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...

  • Albuquerque woman sentenced for meth trafficking crime

    The sentence is related to a drug trafficking crime.