By SUMMER BALLENTINE and JIM SALTER Associated Press (07/06)
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — State and federal governments announced steps aimed at reining in violent crime in St.
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Associate Press (08/02)
CHICAGO (AP) — Gun violence continued to plague Chicago, with eight people killed, including a 9-year-old boy, and at least 19 other people wounded so far this weekend,
By ED WHITE Associated Press (07/29)
DETROIT (AP) — Federal agents being sent to Detroit by the Trump administration will help local authorities fight violent crime and won’t interfere with protests against racism or excessive force by police,
By MARGARET STAFFORD and ROXANA HEGEMAN (07/22)
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A massive federal operation underway in Kansas City, Missouri, that targets violent crime has been largely welcomed by law enforcement and state officials,
By MORGAN LEE Associated Press (07/22)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — President Trump focused on an open wound in the law enforcement community — the unsolved shooting death of the mother of two New Mexico state police officers — in announcing that federal agents,
By DON BABWIN Associated Press (07/22)
CHICAGO (AP) — Amid a surge in gun violence and protests sparked by the death of George Floyd,
By COLLEEN LONG, BEN FOX and JILL COLVIN Associated Press (07/21)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is using the Department of Homeland Security in unprecedented ways as he tries to bolster his law and order credentials by making a heavy-handed show of force in cities around the nation in the lead-up to the November elections.
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press (07/08)
NEW YORK (AP) — Still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and street protests over the police killing of George Floyd,
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press (07/06)
A 6-year-old computer whiz. A young mother working for a better home for her kids. An 8-year-old who loved to make dance videos.
By DON BABWIN Associated Press (07/06)
CHICAGO (AP) — One of Chicago’s bloodiest holiday weekends in memory ended with 17 people fatally shot,
BALTIMORE (AP) 12/27 — Baltimore broke its annual per capita homicide record after reaching 342 killings Friday.
With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — one fatally — another day.
NEW YORK (AP) 10/17 — New York City police arrested a 20-year-old man late Wednesday in connection with a mass shooting over the summer at a Brooklyn community festival that left one person dead and 11 wounded.
By MALLIKA SEN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 07/28 — Late night gunfire at a large, outdoor event in Brooklyn killed one man, wounded 11 others and sent hundreds and perhaps thousands of people running for cover.
By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) 06/27 — Court transcripts unsealed Thursday show that rapper Nipsey Hussle and the man charged with killing him had a conversation about “snitching”
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) 05/25 — At least two gunmen fired into a crowd outside a bar in New Jersey’s capital city, wounding 10 people, two critically,Read more »
BALTIMORE (AP) 04/29 — Baltimore city leaders urged witnesses to share what they know with police after a gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd enjoying Sunday afternoon cookouts,Read more »
By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) 04/03 — After a nearly 48-hour manhunt, police arrested the suspect they say gunned down Nipsey Hussle in front of the popular rapper’s South Los Angeles clothing store.
By RAMESH SANTANAM and MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) 03/23 — A jury acquitted a white former police officer Friday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager as he was fleeing a high-stakes traffic stop outside Pittsburgh,
BALTIMORE (AP) 02/22 — One Baltimore shooting accounted for nearly half of the city’s shooting victims on a single day that became the most violent of the new acting police commissioner’s short tenure.Read more »
By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) 01/07 — Activists praised Houston area law enforcement for pursuing a tip that led to the arrest of an African-American man in the fatal drive-by shooting of a 7-year-old black girl,