National Crime

PHILADELPHIA – Poverty-stricken families living in Kensington, unable to flee the crime-ridden open-air drug market, are forced to find ways to hide their children from the neighborhood's in-your-face horrors, while businesses devise tricks to keep addicts and their oozing flesh wounds off their stoops, according to a recovering addict who managed to flee the community. [...]

Organized retail crime is a burgeoning issue impacting retailers nationwide. However, the incidents in California are "particularly acute," according to Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) President Brian Dodge.  Read more...

Houston police believe that two of the three people killed outside of a family-owned convenience store were trying to rob the owner in a "jugging" incident. The incident unfolded on Wednesday when the owner of Ruiz Cash & Carry convenience store in Houston's East End went to the bank and came back to the business, [...]

A crime thriller novelist said it was like a scene out of his books when he saw hooded figures climbing through the brush below his home in a wealthy California neighborhood. Lee Goldberg was relaxing with his wife and daughter at his home in Calabasas when the motion sensors around his property went off at [...]

A Los Angeles Nordstrom store was ransacked by a mob of more than 30 people on Saturday, with the suspects getting away with nearly $100,000 worth of handbags and clothes. A Los Angeles Nordstrom store was ransacked by a mob of more than 30 people on Saturday, with the suspects getting away with nearly $100,000 [...]

A driver crashed a vehicle into the second story of a Pennsylvania home in what authorities have determined to be an “intentional act.” Read more...

A Los Angeles-based civil rights attorney called on northern California authorities not to prosecute the 7-Eleven clerks who beat an accused thief who allegedly struck the store multiple times. Video taken by another customer at the 7-Eleven in Stockton showed a Black male casually sweeping cigarettes and other behind-the-counter items into a rolling trash can [...]

One paramedic is still reeling from an unprovoked assault as first responders nationwide endure brutal assaults amid widespread staffing shortages.  Read more...

A typically safe Maryland town northeast of Baltimore is desperate for answers after a mom of five was found dead off a popular walking trail on Sunday. Read more...

A second suspect has also died at the hospital Wednesday following a seven-hour... Read more...