By Robert Muggah In Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous Territory and across other parts of the Amazon Basin, illegal gold mining has metastasized into a transnational criminal enterprise. What starts with ...

Police say an "armed and dangerous" man is on the run after he shot another man in the chest during a fight outside a ...

open image in gallery A 12-year-old faces hate crime charges after a fight at their school in Connecticut (AFP via Getty Images) While the initial incident report claimed no students needed ...

The man said his ex-girlfriend had tried to hit him with a baseball bat during an argument, then her brother shot him a short ...

For years, California’s police commissioners have used the image of stolen cars and shattered windows to demand more crime-fighting ... to give them more money to fight fire.

Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver says assault charges filed against her after a skirmish with federal officers who arrested ...

open image in gallery Lejonkica Sharp allegedly tried to run over a group of elementary school kids who had a fight with her child. (Shreveport Police Department) Sharp allegedly told police that ...

Merced Sun-Star file image. Andrew Kuhn akuhn@mercedsun-star.com The Merced County Sheriff Coroner’s Office has identified a man who was shot and killed during an illegal rooster fight in Merced ...