Major crimes reported to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department during the first six months of this year increased 1% over the same period last year, according to a report released Monday.
It comes as no surprise that the Los Angeles City Council hates crime and poverty.
Crime fell 4.1% to 35.5 million incidents in 1984, the lowest level in the 12-year history of the
tipped authorities to the existence of a virtual textbook of crime tips on a computer bulletin
Reversing a recent trend, the number of reported crimes in San Diego jumped 5.5% last year, marking the first increase since 1979, according to police statistics released Thursday.
crime" by the three-hour ordeal, his attorney said Thursday.
The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman (Arbor House: $15.95) "Murder in the Cathedral" it's not, although the religious setting gives this otherwise routine detective novel an extra dimension of interest.
After years of fighting a losing battle with the urban problems of violent crime, theft, drug abuse
Gov.
Davis of Los Angeles moved to boost his image as a tough crime fighter Tuesday by surrounding himself
Nearly everyone in NBC's "Crime Story" wears black hats, suits and ties and looks like the Blues Brothers.
Crime has increased by almost 20% so far this year, pointing to the sharpest annual increase since
Anthony Colombo, the son of slain crime family boss Joseph Colombo, was sentenced Thursday to 14
Here in the squalid suburbs north of Rio de Janeiro, death squads have been a sinister institution for a more than a quarter of a century.
overall crime rate by 5.4% during the first six months of this year.
office here next week and recruit volunteers to patrol the city's high-crime areas.
Orange County residents spend more money on cars and auto-related products than on anything else except their homes.
After drug trading became pronounced in the streets near Dronfield Villas condominiums in Sylmar, the residents decided they had to do something.
Outrage was the reaction on Wall Street last month when three top financial executives were handcuffed and led away--like hapless bank tellers in a garden-variety embezzlement--to be booked on insider-trading charges.
The National Conference of Christians and Jews, an organization dedicated to interreligious and interracial dialogue, is spearheading an effort to clean up Hollywood.