Tag: Gang-related crime
Shooting deaths rattle small, tight-knit US Hmong community
Fresno has been the heart of California’s Hmong community for decades, drawing refugees from war-torn Southeast Asia who built a tight-knit population in the...
Italian police smash cross-border antiquities trafficking
ROME (AP) - Italian police have broken up a cross-border criminal gang illicitly trafficking in archaeological artifacts clandestinely excavated in southern Italy for export...
2 inmates accused of murder escape from California jail
MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) - Officials on Monday were trying to find out how two men charged with murder were able to escape from a...
‘Unacceptable’: Trick-or-treater injured in Chicago shooting
CHICAGO (AP) - A 7-year-old girl out trick-or-treating in a bumblebee costume on Chicago's West Side was critically injured when she was shot in...
Jury convicts 2nd man in 9-year-old Chicago boy’s slaying
CHICAGO (AP) - A jury on Friday convicted a man who prosecutors said plotted then tried to cover up the 2015 slaying of a...
APNewsBreak: California halts prison gang peacemaking effort
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California prison officials have halted an experiment aimed at forcing warring prison gangs to get along with each other after...
US, El Salvador sign asylum deal, details to be worked out
NEW YORK (AP) - The United States on Friday signed an agreement that paves the way for the U.S. to send many asylum-seekers to...
APNewsBreak: US, El Salvador to sign asylum deal
NEW YORK (AP) - The United States planned to sign an agreement on Friday to help make one of Central America's most violent countries,...
Venezuelan opposition leader denies ties to criminal gang
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó rejected allegations Friday that he has ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, as...
Trial to begin in 9-year-old’s killing that shocked Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) - It stands as one of Chicago's most horrific crimes, in large part because of small details that are impossible to shake:...