“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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After a nearly two-month hospitalization, legendary rapper Guru (best known as the frontman for Gangstarr) died Monday morning (April 19), after a long battle with cancer, reports DJPremierBlog.com.



He was just 43 years old.



Solar, Guru's business partner and sidekick in recent years, told the Yo!Raps (who's PR company had been coordinating press for Guru since his hospitalization)…

The Flocc street gang had an unusual mix of members. It formed out of an alliance, law enforcement officials said, between two groups that have traditionally been rivals: the Crips and the Bloods.

As the gang muscled its way into the drug trade in Far Rockaway and South Jamaica, Queens, and police officers on foot patrols started proving a nuisance to their business, at least one of their members hatched a plan to shoot them from a rooftop, the…