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    Man Hospitalized After Las Vegas Strip Fight Leads To Shooting

    Jan 19, 2021

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say a fight inside a casino led to an early morning shooting on the casino-lined Las Vegas Strip that left a man in critical condition.

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    Houston Police Rescue 26 From Alleged Human Smuggling Operation

    Dec 04, 2020
    Officers discovered 25 men and one woman inside a boarded-up house in the Houston suburbs. Many said they were being held against their will and had been there for up to a week.
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    Terror, Hate-Crime Counts Mulled In Las Vegas In 2-State Rampage

    Dec 02, 2020

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Prosecutors in Nevada say three people from Texas could face terrorism and hate-crime charges following Thanksgiving shootings in suburban Las Vegas, including one that killed a man at a convenience store, and several more shootings before their arrests in rural

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    Officials Seek Motive After 3 Arrested In 2-State Rampage

    Dec 01, 2020

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say three people arrested after a vehicle crash and trooper-involved shooting in Arizona are believed to be responsible for several Thanksgiving shootings in suburban Las Vegas, including one that killed a man at a convenience store.

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    Police: 4 Dead After Shooting At Henderson Apartment Complex

    Nov 03, 2020

    HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Police in Henderson say four people are dead after a shooting at an apartment complex.

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    Gaming Roundup: Casinos Counter Violence, Circa And Virgin On The Way

    Oct 22, 2020

    Tourists may not be flooding Nevada casinos like it used to, but that doesn’t mean the gaming industry hasn’t had its ha

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    Were Low Room Rates To Blame For A Wild Labor Day Weekend?

    Sep 15, 2020

    Judging from social media last week, Las Vegas was one of the most dangerous places to be. 

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    Candles burn in front of a memorial for Lena Nunez, 10, on June 29 in Chicago. The child was shot and killed by a stray bullet while watching TV with her brother in her grandmother's home, reports say.
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    Crime Has Declined Overall During The Pandemic, But Shootings And Killings Are Up

    Jul 20, 2020
    The pandemic has forced people to change their lives dramatically, which has contributed to the crime rate dropping. The bad news: an uptick in shootings and killings.
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    Criminal Justice Collaborative
    Nick Selby and NYPD officer Luis Sayan interview a retired New York City teacher who lost more than $300,000 to online scammers posing as Chinese police.
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    Coaxing Cops To Tackle Cybercrime? There's An App For That

    Jan 16, 2020
    Local police often don't feel equipped to investigate cybercrime. The NYPD is trying to teach patrol officers to ask the right questions about IP addresses, Bitcoin and phone spoofing.
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    Four Arrests In 2018 Beatings, Armed Robberies Near UNR

    Dec 20, 2019
    Reno police have arrested four suspects in connection with a year-long investigation into the beating and armed robbery of five college-aged men near the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.
     
    Police said Thursday that three of the assailants allegedly involved in the e
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    Long-distance truck driver Mohammad Hashim, 45, survived an attack by a Hindu mob last year. A dozen men on motorbikes forced him off the road and beat him. He suffered a broken leg and fractured vertebrae.
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    'This Is It. I'm Going To Die': India's Minorities Are Targeted In Lynchings

    Aug 21, 2019
    "It's like they are trying to erase us — erase all of my people," says the widow of a Muslim dairy farmer who died after being assaulted by a mob while he was transporting cows.
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    O.J. Simpson's Life In Las Vegas

    Jun 18, 2019

    Since his 2017 release, Simpson has been living in Las Vegas. And Linda Deutsch was able to talk with him.

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    2 Dead, 1 Wounded, Child OK After Driveway Shootout In Las Vegas

    Apr 26, 2019

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Police say two people are dead, one is wounded and a child is OK after an apparent shootout involving an arguing couple and two men in a driveway at a southeast Las Vegas home.

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    CCTV footage shows how three men clawed an ATM out of a wall and made off with with cash box in under five minutes. It is the eighth such incident in Northern Ireland since the start of the year.
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    A Van, An Excavator And A Slew Of ATM Thefts, Northern Ireland Police Plead For Help

    Apr 12, 2019
    With the help of heavy construction equipment and a van with an ATM-size hole cut out of its roof, thieves are clawing entire cash boxes out of local businesses and disappearing into the night.
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    Joshua James was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, after officials said he threw an alligator into the kitchen of a fast food restaurant in Loxahatchee, Fla., on Oct. 12, 2015.
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    Alligators, Drugs, And Theft, Oh My! New List Shows Top 10 'Florida Man' Stories

    Mar 03, 2019
    Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the most Florida of them all? A new top 10 list of bizarre stories from a Miami-based injury claims company attempts to answer that question.
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    Latin America
    Forensic personnel load the corpse of a man into a van, after he was executed at a shopping mall in Acapulco, Mexico, on April 24, 2018. A new report recorded more than 33,000 homicides in 2018, making it the country's deadliest on record.
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    Mexico Reports Highest Ever Homicide Rate In 2018, Tops 33,000 Investigations

    Jan 23, 2019

    The grim news was expected as the number of open homicide cases continued to climb month after month, making the last 12 months the deadliest on record — an average of 91 deaths per day.

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    Jake Thomas Patterson is suspected of kidnapping Jayme Closs, 13, and fatally shooting her parents in Barron County, Wis.
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    Police Say Wisconsin Man Confesses To Abducting Jayme Closs And Killing Her Parents

    Jan 14, 2019
    Jake Thomas Patterson allegedly told police he decided to abduct Jayme after spotting her board a school bus. Authorities say he controlled her with threats of "bad things."
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    Family and friends of the four slain women gathered for a candlelight vigil at a park in downtown Laredo, Texas, in September. Juan David Ortiz has pleaded not guilty to charges of capital murder.
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    Border Patrol Agent Pleads Not Guilty To Killing 4 Sex Workers

    Jan 11, 2019
    Juan David Ortiz, a supervisor in the U.S. Border Patrol, wanted to "clean the streets," prosecutors say. Ortiz is accused of killing four women, and prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.
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    Nevada Prison Inmate Guilty Of Directing Meth Business

    Nov 10, 2018

    RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal jury in Reno has found a 53-year-old Nevada prison inmate guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine from behind bars.

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    A view of New York City from the Empire State Building on Tuesday. The city just had its first weekend without a single shooting in at least 25 years.
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    New York City Had Its First Weekend Without A Shooting In 25 Years

    Oct 17, 2018
    "A city of 8.6 million people — not a single shooting for three days," Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday. The NYPD says it has been focusing on preventing retaliatory violence.
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    After a fight broke out nearby, Eric Giovani Fabian, 20, plays his trumpet, as his mariachi band, Nuevo Imperio, waits for clients in Mexico City, in August 2017.
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    Working The Night Shift For Mexico City's Bloody Crime Tabloids

    Jun 29, 2018
    Reporting on crime for sensationalist media in the Mexican capital reveals the dark side of a city where officials have tried to keep the crime problem under wraps.
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    Crime and punishment: Notorious

    Jun 25, 2018

    Ex-con Frank Citro wants to get out of Nevada’s Black Book. If history is any indication, the streetwise singer faces an uphill battle

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    At home, Albino Quiroz's presence can still be felt in the kitchen, the favorite room of his wife, Maricela Peñaloza Flores — and a gift from her husband.
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    Last Year, A Retired Mexican Schoolteacher Vanished. His Family Still Seeks Answers

    Jun 24, 2018
    Albino Quiroz Sandoval left home to go shopping last year and never returned. A man has been arrested, but most crimes in Mexico go unpunished. More than 37,000 people have gone missing since 2007.
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    Politics: Fact Check
    President Trump speaks about immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants, at the White House Friday.
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    FACT CHECK: Trump, Illegal Immigration And Crime

    Jun 22, 2018
    In an effort to justify his get-tough policies at the Southern border, President Trump met Friday with victims of crime committed by immigrants who entered the country illegally.
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    Outlaw: George Christie's Life In The Hells Angels (And Beyond)

    Jun 21, 2018

    George Christie is starring in a one-man show, "Outlaw,"  based on his memoir, "Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel and Beyond." 

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