The trend has been studied closely for a number of years, showing a slow increase in gun-related deaths.
A Brooklyn judge on Thursday ordered the release of five teens accused of raping an 18-year-old girl last week at a playground in what investigators have called an increasingly complicated case, reports the New York Daily News.
Cpl. Eric Johnson, 20, who goes by the name "Santana Sage," was arrested on Tuesday at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona by U.S. Marshals.
A woman’s quick thinking led to the arrest of a Georgia man who attempted to rape her Monday morning. According to WSB-TV, Robert Giles, 27, abducted the woman around 4 a.m. from Hapeville and brought her to a closed adult store 20 minutes away in Jonesboro. Before the sexual assault, Giles ordered the woman to call […]
An organization for abused women is fighting for the release of a pregnant Chicago mother currently facing jail time for killing her abusive boyfriend.
Birmingham, Ala. Mayor William Bell and Councilman Marcus Lundy were involved in a fistfight during a city council meeting on Tuesday morning.
The FBI announced Wednesday that the San Bernardino shooters did not openly post on social media about jihad, but did have conversations about martyrdom using "private direct messages."
On Friday, Marvin Banks was found unresponsive in his cell at Forrest County Jail. After being taken to a local hospital, he was pronounced dead.
AMuslim store owner in Queens, New York is still in shock over an attack that police are treating as a hate crime, NBC4 New York reports. The incident happened Saturday, when Piro Kolvani entered Fatima Food Mart, owned by Sarker Haque. Kolvani walked into the store and acted erratically before screaming “I’m gonna kill Muslims,” and began punching Haque in the […]
The victims of the Planned Parenthood shooting were identified as an Iraq War veteran, a mother of two from Hawaii and a police officer.
A man accused of killing three, including a police officer, when he attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colo. was arrested and taken into police custody alive after a tense five-hour standoff.
Activist Mercutio Southall Jr., the man who was kicked and beaten by Donald Trump supporters at a rally in Alabama, is sharing his side of the story with Think Progress.
