The latest outbreak of midtown mayhem - which the mayor Monday declared an episode of "wilding" - resurrected memories of the "bad old days of the 1970s."

Fifty-six youths were arrested or given summonses after hundreds of thugs rampaged through Times Square and Herald Square on Easter Sunday night.

Four people - a man and a woman in Times Square and two women outside Macy's - were shot in what cops say is becoming an annual tradition.

"It came out of nowhere. I just saw…

Fresno, Calif. (KMPH News) — A string of gang shootings over the weekend are prompting concern about a rise in violence in the city of Fresno. Investigators call it a feud between two separate groups within the Bulldog criminal street Gang.

26–year old Celis Gonzalez and 26–year old Richard Solomonian were gunned down Saturday. Investigators have made no arrests. But, they believe their murders are linked to Fresno's notorious…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Just hours after the city's third homicide of the year, two men were shot Thursday night in a separate incident in what the police describe as a gang-related drive-by shooting in the West End.

The men's injuries are not considered to be life-threatening, Maj. Thomas F. Oates III said.

The two men -- Sareivouth…

TRENTON, New Jersey — Police say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home.

Trenton police said Wednesday the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital.

Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at…

From Chicago Breaking News:

A former Chicago woman and her son have been charged after Kenosha police found the woman’s 38-year-old daughter–who has the intellectual capacity of a child–at the family home disfigured from neglect, covered in her own excrement and chained to a weight bench.

Sally M. Adams, 56, and her son, Ernest Claiborne, 34, were arrested in their home in the 1300 block of 69th Street in Kenosha on Saturday.…

A nine-year-old boy was stabbed and killed in the early hours of Saturday morning in Morningside Heights after what his family says was a fight over a video game.

According to the boy’s mother, Anthony was visiting his uncle and while the uncle was asleep, the boy was stabbed.

The boy’s uncle told reporters the boy knocked on his bedroom door at 3:30 a.m. saying he had been stabbed, and then collapsed.

The little boy, Anthony Maldonado of Palisades Park, NJ, was found by police in a…

From Fox8.com:

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Steve McClairin,36, is accused of placing his seven-year-old daughter in the dryer, shutting the door, and turning it on.

McClairin was arraigned Wednesday morning on a handful of charges, including two counts of endangering children, felonious assault, kidnapping and domestic violence.…

Forty people stood in Winton Terrace on Thursday night, huddled under umbrellas over the spot where Lawrence McElroy was gunned down exactly a week earlier.

Just hours later, another man would lie dead in the parking lot of an apartment lot…

Chicago police seize $17.5 million worth of cocaine, largest find this year

The victims were struck by a gang rival in the 2800 block of West Pico Boulevard about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, said LAPD spokesman Bruce Borihanh. When police arrived, they found…

4 injured in gang-related shooting

21-year-old shot to death in Newburgh

CITY OF NEWBURGH — A 21-year-old man was shot and killed, likely for revenge, Friday night, capping a 24-hour…

5 shot, stabbed in Walla Walla fight

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- Police say five people are hospitalized with gunshot and stab wounds after a gang-affiliated birthday party turned ugly.

Officers say a fight broke out early Saturday morning when several people with no known gang links stopped by a house frequented by gang members.…