In a suburban high school cafeteria, a kid with an oversized white T-shirt and an easy smile is getting a lot of attention. It's readily apparent that the other students at the lunch table defer to him. As the school counselor, you ask around and find out this student is newly entrenched in gang life.

He was just talking to an honor roll student, attempting to recruit him and asking him to bring another friend along to meet after school. Near them is a girl who hangs out with the…

Fallen Detroit officer ID'd in shooting that wounded 4 others

One officer was killed and four others were wounded while responding to a 911 call early this…

Sources said they believed the businesses were laundering funds from drugs and extortion rackets by creating “ghost children”, youngsters shown on their books to be in their care but…

Amongst the more than 3000 inmates who escaped from Haiti's main prison when the earthquake struck were untold numbers of gang members, including gangsters who once ruled the country's largest slum with violence and intimidation.

One particularly notorious escapee was the warlord known only by his street name "Blade".

These gangs stole guns from officers at the National Penitentiary and went straight to the collapsed…

“I’m gonna write a little letter,” sang Chuck Berry. “Gonna mail it to my local DJ.”

Alleged mafia godfather Salvatore Pesce did the same but not just because he needed “a shot of rhythm and blues”.

Rather Pesce, jailed five years ago on suspicion of international narcotics trafficking, and his fellow mobsters are accused of using a local radio station to send…

NEW YORK — The only man to admit shooting Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he assassinated the civil rights leader. Thomas Hagan, the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing, was freed from a Manhattan prison where he spent two days a week under a work-release program, state Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.

Hagan, 69, has said he was one of three gunmen who shot Malcolm X as he began a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom…

Police can catch armed robbers, but they can't prevent armed robberies.

To do that, it takes a community.

Residents need to work with police by reporting what they see and what they know, said Tod W. Burke, a criminal justice professor at Radford University in Virginia and a former police officer.

By being aware, such as noticing a vehicle circling a convenience store, someone can provide the clue an investigator needs, Burke said.

Everyone needs to reduce the…

At 15, Christopher Dent thought the worst that could happen to him and his buddies if they got caught for armed robbery would be a little time in juvenile detent…

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Cameron Douglas Gets 5 Years in Jail -- Michael Douglas Takes Full Blame (PICTURE)

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