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A mother was fatally shot in Chicago. Authorities said she was caught in the crossfire while standing outside with her 1-year-old daughter.

Four Georgia teens pursued summer jobs to stay out of trouble. They were pressured to join neighborhood gangs.

With their booming catering service, two men from Compton have traded in violence and drugs for really good food.

An arrest has been made in Chicago in the shooting death of nine-year-old Tyshawn Lee.

Grandfather says 6-year-old "doesn't even remember" fatally shooting 3-year-old sibling http://t.co/G44LWyMrMu pic.twitter.com/hZm6aFs4jn — Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) October 19, 2015 A six-year-old boy shot and killed his three-year-old brother in Chicago Saturday night after their father, Michael Santiago, showed the older son where the firearm was stashed on top of the refrigerator. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi […]

They say crime doesn’t pay, but over time, gangsters have proven otherwise. In the early part of the 20th century, a gangster’s profit was measured…

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New York City police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting that killed a Bronx resident as he was holding his toddler…

The key elements of hip-hop have been well documented over the years, but director Shan Nicholson uncovers the layers of what brought the genre into…

Baltimore police have arrested two men and a teenager in connection with the rape and death of a Baltimore high school student who was found in…

Baltimore City Police Department released a memo stating the Bloods and Crips were banding together to injure the police. Today we learn, that wasn’t true.…