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Texas law enforcement agents will be hunting for a little-known crime during this week's Super Bowl festivities in metropolitan Dallas: child sex rings.

A day after releasing images of men suspected of sexually assaulting severely disabled women, Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives said they have identified two of them.

A parolee who served more than 30 years for a crime he didn't commit was exonerated this morning in a Dallas courtroom. Cornelius Dupree, who was cleared by DNA evidence after serving more than 30 years for a ...

Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit imprisoned on a probation violation, was charged under a federal racketeering law.

In the weeks since Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was slain in Beverly Hills, there have been rumors circulating of a series of carjackings and other violent crimes in the area.But according to interviews and crime records, there is no evidence these crimes have actually occurred.

Striking back, the Obama administration branded the WikiLeaks release of more than a quarter-million sensitive files an attack on the United States Monday and raised the prospect of criminal pro...

The numbers, continuing a 20-year trend, defy expectations of higher crime during a period of economic problems. The nation's crime rate dropped 5% last year, continuing a 20-year trend that has cut the incidence of major crimes nearly in half, according to FBI statistics .

Wearing masks while committing a crime - it's a pretty standard practice. But what happens when you don't have access to your favorite Darth Vader mask? Grab your favorite piece of underwear and some paper clips, of course.

China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police checking identification papers, in bid to reduce rising crime.

Arizona's new crackdown on illegal immigration will increase crime in U.S. cities, not reduce it, by driving a wedge between police and immigrant communities, police chiefs from several of the state's and the nation's largest cities said Tuesday.