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Xiaolei Wu, a music student in Boston, is jailed after being found guilty of harassing a pro-democracy activist. A Chinese music student has been jailed for nine months in the United States after threatening to cut off the hands of a fellow student at a prestigious music institute in Boston after she posted pro-democracy fliers […]
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced a multifaceted strategy to bolster law enforcement and community-based initiatives to combat violent crime in America. Speaking at a conference for federal grantees in Chicago, Garland highlighted the need to double down on recent progress and stem the tide […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out the hate crime convictions of three white men who used pickup trucks to chase Ahmaud Arbery through the streets of a Georgia subdivision before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun. A panel of judges from the 11th […]
Paul Young will have an inaugural meeting in Memphis with 20 other mayors on March 27-28. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Mayor Paul Young, partnering with the African American Mayors Association, is launching a new coalition to fight crime across the nation, the city announced Tuesday morning. The Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime (BMCC) is an […]
In his State of the Union address this month, President Joe Biden boasted that the nation reported a historically low murder rate in 2023 and violent crime had plummeted to one of the lowest levels in 50 years. For some Americans, however, the perception of crime is clashing with the statistics. “I don’t believe it, […]
An ‘extremely dangerous’ suspect has been taken into custody in New Jersey following an hours-long effort to detain him. A suspect has been taken into custody in New Jersey after allegedly shooting dead three family members, authorities have said, following an hours-long effort to detain him. Andre Gordon, 26, “surrendered peacefully”, Trenton Police Department spokeswoman […]
President Joe Biden delivered last year’s State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7, 2023. Ahead of this year’s address, Americans are focused the economy, immigration and conflicts abroad. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) President Joe Biden will deliver his third State of the Union address on […]
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – A local crime scene investigator received a huge national honor. Rebecca Wendt with the Bryan Police Department was presented the National Computer Forensics Institute (NCFI) Top Forensic Examiner Award by the United States Secret Service. The NCFI is a program where local examiners are trained in techniques to obtain evidence from […]
Updated Feb 24, 2024, 04:24 PM IST A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation’s first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity. After deliberating for roughly four hours, jurors convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter of a hate crime for the murder of Dime […]
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