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07
Jan 2012
Los Angeles police block off the 3rd Street tunnel after a man was shot there in October last year. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
A newsroom has its own way of tracking a city's trend toward diminishing crime.
Twenty years ago, a...
06
Jan 2012
Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky is escorted by state police Dec. 7. (Andy Colwell, AP)
WASHINGTON - The FBI is changing its long-standing definition of rape for the first time to include sexual assaults on males...
05
Jan 2012
Sure, crime was down in 2011, yet again. But 2012 has really gotten off to a bad start.
In the span of one week, Los Angeles saw dozens of vehicles torched in a one-man arson spree; seven officer- or deputy-involved shootings; a freeway...
05
Jan 2012
Police officers and emergency crew are seen near 3268 Jackson Street in Ogden, Utah where 6 police officers were shot, including those from the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force and the Ogden Police Department, while serving a warrant...