A top administrator at the Wayne County juvenile jail has been fired amid a sexual assault investigation. Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility Deputy Director of Administration Mark Roland was fired Friday, the Detroit Free Press reported Friday. He had worked …

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A five-hour-long standoff between police in Paterson, New Jersey, and a well-known anti-violence worker in the city — that ended with officers fatally shooting him in his brother’s apartment — began with sobbing pleas from the man’s mother to end …

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The U.S. Virgin Islands can be a dangerous place – and although they are technically a U.S. territory, American families have struggled to obtain justice there when their loved ones have fallen victim to violent crime. The motto, “No passport …

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Two suburban Detroit men have been convicted in the 2021 slayings of two women who were fatally shot while unloading groceries outside their apartment. A jury convicted Dajuan Davenport, 22, of Warren, and Darrell S. Banks, 21, of Mount Clemens, …

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Los Angelenos are steering clear of riding public transportation as open drug use, violence and fatal overdoses skyrocket, recent reports find. “We don’t even see any business people anymore. We don’t see anybody going to Universal. It’s just people who …

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A Washington man wanted in connection to a fatal shooting authorities say started over a property dispute has turned himself in, but deputies are still seeking his son as a suspected accomplice. Rufus A Phelps III, 62, was taken into …

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