• Hesperia crime logs for the month of April 2024

    HESPERIA, Calif. (VVNG.com) –On April 13, 2024, at about 9:44 pm, deputies responded to the 9700 block of Cataba Road reference a reported theft that was later determined to be a robbery. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Amanda Paslak told VVNG, “Upon deputies arrival it was learned, the victims were at the location with the suspect. The suspect

  • Goal: Step up engagement with public to reduce crime

    Manteca Police now have a strategic plan. Last month — for the first time in more than two decades — the department published a strategic plan to inform the community it serves of issues they intend to address during the next three years along with targeted outcomes.

  • 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.

    • WBOY

    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.

  • The US military is embedding its officers in corporate America

    The government should do more business with McKinsey & Co. — one of the world’s largest consulting firms — says a Pentagon presentation: “Leverage [the] consulting firm’s expertise and objectivity – outsourcing is a positive action.” While this might sound like a talking point from lobbyists, it actually came from an active-duty naval commander who spent almost a full year working at McKinsey & Co. with you, the taxpayer, footing the bill. It’s no secret that major defense companies spend...

  • 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.

  • ‘Hush money’ is not a crime, and Bragg has no case against Trump

    From the perspective of Bragg and Democrats, to accurately describe what they’ve alleged would be to see it laughed out of any court that isn’t a kangaroo court.

  • Will the Supreme Court make homelessness a crime?

    Helen Cruz has been a resident of Grants Pass, Oregon, for roughly four decades, but for the last five of those years, she’s had no home in which to live. She’s not alone. Her small mountain town with a population of 39,189 provides no public homeless shelters. She is among up to 600 people experiencing […]