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FBI violent crime database gets boost
The infusion of money for the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program comes after ProPublica reported on shortcomings in the use of a database meant to assist in capturing serial killers…
Documenting Hate: A killing at Donkey Creek
Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and…
National Crime Prevention Council Promotes School Safety
Officials say becoming informed about risky behaviors and what to do with that information is key for students, parents, and teachers.
State senator awaits sentencing for conspiracy, theft
(NEWSORIA) - A state senator from Michigan faces a decade behind bars after pleading guilty to conspiracy and theft crimes earlier this month.
Bertram Johnson Jr., 44, of Highland Park…
Man serving 100 years for daughter’s murder says girlfriend is killer
BLOOMINGTON - A Midwest man who has served nearly 20 years of a 100-year prison term for killing his daughter maintains that police did not spend enough time linking his girlfriend to the…
MaM’s Jerry Buting’s jab at Andy Colborn
(NEWSORIA) - "Making a Murder" lawyer Jerry Buting gave Manitowoc County Sheriff's Lt. Andrew Colborn a snarky retirement sendoff on Twitter.
Buting, who, at trial, strongly suggested…
Security Guard Thwarts Possible School Shooting
LOS ANGELES -- A security guard is being credited with stopping what police say could have been a student's plot to carry out a shooting at a southern California high school.
According to…
Renowned College Professor Kills Sons, Self: Police
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Police say a nationally renowned political science professor allegedly killed his two sons before taking his own life inside their suburban Illinois home.
Winnebago…
