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 Violent crimes per 1,000: 23.4 * Population: 102,357 * 2011 murders: 52 * Median income: $22,672 * Unemployment rate: 18.9%

Do you live in one of the country's most dangerous cities?

The FBI has crunched the numbers and has found out which US cities are the most dangerous. The crimes looked at - violent crimes, murder, population and income. Some of the cities, like Detroit, are expected to be high on the list, but there are others that are included, or ...

Randy Travis sues agencies over drunken driving arrest footage

Country music star Randy Travis has sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Office of the Attorney General after some evidence from his drunken-driving arrest last summer was ordered released to the public. Travis in January pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. The arrest video was collected Aug. ...

Casey Anthony

Casey Anthony believes Judge Perry's recent comments will hurt her in court

Judge Belvin Perry had a front row seat as Casey Anthony stood trial in connection to her daughter's murder, but his recent comments about Anthony's acquittal are sparking another battle. During a recent interview, Perry said he was surprised, shocked and in disbelief when Anthony was found not guilty, and ...

Pets rescued from Monterey Co. hoarder available for adoption

Animals rescued from a hoarding situation in Monterey the week before were available Sunday for adoption into new homes, according to the Monterey County SPCA. Police called in the SPCA on April 28 to rescue 48 animals found at a home in Monterey, including 17 cats, 24 dogs and 7 ...

4 pit bulls blamed for SoCal jogger's killing

Authorities on Friday tried to determine whether pit bulls seized at an alleged marijuana growing house are the same dogs that mauled to death a runner in a Mojave Desert community. Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide investigators had not announced any DNA match between the six pit bulls seized Thursday and the ...

$50M diamond heist followed by 30+ arrests

$50M diamond heist followed by 30+ arrests

The rough and polished stones were being transported from Antwerp to Zurich, when professional thieves got away with the diamonds on the runway.

Mission College locked down after cardboard cutout mistaken for gun

Santa Clara's Mission College went into lockdown for about 45 minutes Monday afternoon after a cardboard cutout of a gun was mistaken for the real thing, a school spokesman said. As part of a sociology of criminology class project where students were to dress up as criminals, one student wore ...

Police: Woman arrested for DUI was celebrating end of earlier DUI

Police: Woman arrested for DUI was celebrating end of earlier DUI

Erin James of Illinois is under arrest for driving under the influence for the second time in two years. In fact, Riverside Police say she was out celebrating the return of her driver's license when she was pulled over for speeding and handed the second DUI. That's not irony, that's ...

Victim's mother: Bride among those killed in limo fire

A bride-to-be was one of five women killed Saturday night after a limousine carrying a bridal party caught fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, according to a relative of one of the victims. Rosita Guardiano, the mother of one of the nine women riding in the back of the limosine ...

The headstone of a woman buried in the 60s is seen with fresh dirt around it where a Dayton man was told his mother was buried. ANNE YEAGER/STAFF

Man questions Dayton cemetery’s burial practices

A man is questioning a Dayton cemetery’s practices after he claims that managers couldn’t verify where his mother was buried. Patrone Cochran, 41, said his family conducted a funeral for his mother, Linda Lewis, last week. But Cochran was disturbed when his sister drove by the Greencastle Cemetery on Nicholas ...

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