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NYC on Track for Lowest Murders on Record

Chicago, meanwhile, just hit 500

(Newser) - Two big cities, two opposite trends:
  • New York City expects to record its lowest number of homicides since record-keeping began in 1963, reports AP . The city has had 414 this year, down nearly 20% from last year and well under the previous low of 471 in 2009. The city also
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Indy Couple Allegedly Blew Up Their Own House

Three arrested in allegedly intentional blast that killed two

(Newser) - Police have arrested three people in the deadly Indianapolis blast that killed two people and destroyed 29 homes —and the people arrested are the family that lived in the house at the center of the blast. Monserrate Shirley and her boyfriend Mark Leonard, who lived in the house, and...

Indiana Blast Probe Now a Homicide Case
 Indiana Blast Was No Accident
investigators say
Nov 20, 2012 7:06 AM CST

Indiana Blast Was No Accident

Explosion that killed 2, hit 86 homes was no accident, investigators say

(Newser) - The blast that killed two people and left an Indianapolis neighborhood looking like a "war zone" earlier this month was no accident, investigators believe. The chief of the Indianapolis Department of Public Safety’s Homeland Security division says the probe is now a criminal homicide investigation, the Indianapolis Star...

Police: Found Body Likely Missing NJ Girl

Autumn Pasquale has not been seen since last Saturday afternoon

(Newser) - A body found in a recycling container has been preliminarily identified as that of a missing 12-year-old New Jersey girl, officials said today. The body found last night is believed to be that of Autumn Pasquale, who was last seen Saturday afternoon at her father's home. Officials did not...

Boston Student Found in River Chained to Block

Jonathan Dailey disappeared a week ago

(Newser) - A missing Boston graduate student has been found dead in the Charles River, bound with chains to a cement block. Jonathan Dailey, 23, was identified yesterday, a day after the body of a 62-year-old man was found in the river near the Boston University boathouse. The older man's death...

Torso Found Floating Off Toronto

Boaters found suitcase containing woman's body part

(Newser) - Another gruesome find in Ontario's waterways: A decomposed human torso was found in a suitcase floating in Lake Ontario about a mile from Toronto's waterfront, the CBC reports. Boaters found the suitcase and towed it to shore. Police are investigating whether the torso is that of Guang Hua...

Torso Found at Niagara Falls Could Be Missing American

Canadian police classify case as a homicide

(Newser) - Canadian authorities found a woman's torso floating at the bottom of Niagara Falls last Wednesday, and they suspect it may be a missing American, the AP reports. Police have classified the case as a homicide investigation, and “we are prepared to say that it was a dismemberment,"...

China Denies Lawyer for Chen's Nephew

Chen Kegui charged with 'homicide' though no one was killed

(Newser) - The Chinese government has denied Chen Kegui his choice of lawyers, saying he must use a pair of government-appointed attorneys in his "intentional homicide" trial. Chen was slapped with that charge because he brandished a knife on April 27 when authorities burst into his home after his uncle's...

What Huguely Told Cops
 What Huguely Told Cops 
TAPE RELEASED
May 16, 2012 8:26 AM CDT

What Huguely Told Cops

Tape of U.Va lacrosse player's interview made public

(Newser) - As the black of May 2, 2010, faded into the gray of dawn, George Huguely—unaware that ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love lay lifeless in a morgue—sat down with Virginia cops to tell the story of the flowing booze, the heated emotions , and the violence of the night before. The tape...

Convicted Murderer Won't Get New Trial...

Despite dramatic change in cause of toddler's death

(Newser) - The medical examiner changed her opinion on the cause of a toddler's death, but the Supreme Court won't consider giving the man convicted in the child's death a new trial. The high court today refused, without comment, to hear an appeal from Neil Hampton Robbins, convicted in...

Most Peaceful State: Maine

 Most Peaceful State: Maine 
THEN THERE'S THE SOUTH
Apr 24, 2012 6:57 AM CDT

Most Peaceful State: Maine

Louisiana, Deep South bring up the rear in new survey

(Newser) - Apparently the moose-on-moose violence is next to nil, because Maine has scored the title of most peaceful state in the union, according to a new survey by the Institute for Economics & Peace. It finds the nation as a whole at its most peaceful point in two decades. Louisiana, meanwhile,...

Two in Alaska Coast Guard Shot Dead
Two in Alaska
Coast Guard Shot Dead
Apr 13, 2012 3:02 AM CDT

Two in Alaska Coast Guard Shot Dead

Pair found dead inside Kodiak base

(Newser) - Police fear a killer is on the loose on Alaska's Kodiak Island. Two members of the local Coast Guard were shot dead at their work stations at a base on the island in what officials say appears to be a double homicide, reports the Anchorage Daily News . The rest...

Girl's Death From School Fight Ruled a Homicide

Joanna Ramos of Long Beach, Calif., was struck in an after-school fight

(Newser) - A coroner ruled today that the death of a 10-year-old Southern California girl in an afterschool alley fight is a homicide, the AP and Long Beach Press-Telegram report. Joanna Ramos of Long Beach apparently faced an 11-year-old girl in a fight without any weapons Friday, and never fell down—but...

Human Head Found Near Hollywood Sign

Hikers' dogs make grisly discovery

(Newser) - It's the kind of discovery a producer might make a movie about. Hikers in the Hollywood Hills found a human head in a plastic bag on a trail below the famous Hollywood sign, the Los Angeles Times reports. They made the grisly discovery after their dogs started playing with...

CDC: Murder No Longer a Top Cause of Death in US

Homicide drops out of the top 15

(Newser) - Some semi-encouraging news from the CDC's not-so-cheery annual report on death: For the first time since 1965, homicide did not make the top 15 causes of death in the US last year. But something had to take its place, and that was pneumonitis, a respiratory illness that mainly plagues...

Mexico's Bloody Toll in 2011: 12K

Country sees increasing torture, beheadings, violence against women

(Newser) - The sixth year of Mexico's murderous war against drug cartels claimed a staggering 12,000 lives, according to bleak tallies being reported in the Mexican press that show upticks in beheadings, torture, and violence against women and children. There is no official number from Felipe Calderon's government, which...

Cops: Man Dies Eating Bro's Cocaine to Spare Him Jail

Older brother begged sibling to eat drugs to spare him prison, say officials

(Newser) - A 20-year-old South Carolina man died after eating an ounce of cocaine his brother was hiding in his buttocks as the two were sitting in the back of a police cruiser, authorities say. Wayne Joshua Mitchell began having difficulty breathing and collapsed an hour after his older brother begged him...

New Orleans' Problem: How to Stop All the Murders

City officials trying new programs, but will they work?

(Newser) - Choose nearly any line from a New York Times article on murders in New Orleans, and it will depress you: By late last month, the city had seen 175 homicides in 2011—the same as the total number for all of the previous year—and there have been eight more...

1 in 50 Central American Men Murdered by Age 31: UN

Situation is nearing a 'crisis point'

(Newser) - This is basically insane: A new UN report says that one in 50 Central American 20-year-old men will be murdered before they turn 31. Unsurprisingly, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says the situation is nearing a "crisis point." The report places much of the blame on...

Suspected Wife Killer Killed Previous Wife

But Jeremiah Fogle only got 10 years' probation

(Newser) - The Florida man who allegedly killed his wife and shot two pastors yesterday had been on probation for killing a previous wife, the AP reports. Jeremiah Fogle, 57, was sentenced to 10 years' probation in 1987 for fatally shooting wife-of-five-months Diane Fogle at home with a rifle. Prosecutors at the...

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