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A Detroit suburb that was forced to lay off half its police department has seen a spike in violent crime, MyFoxDetroit.com reports. Since July, when the police force was cut in half, there have been 10 murders in Inkster, a Detroit suburb with a population of about 25,000. There have been 12 murders so far this year.

Authorities on Friday identified the body of a man who was found entombed in concrete in the backyard of a northeast Georgia home. The man has been identified as Sean Dugas, 30, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner's office. The body was found Monday encased in a plastic storage container filled with concrete.

Gu Kailai, the wife of the disgraced political leader Bo Xilai, has been indicted for intentional homicide, in a crime that has triggered China’s most serious political crisis in decades. The official Xinhua news agency on Thursday evening published a brief dispatch announcing that Ms. Gu and an aide employed by the family had been formally charged in the poisoning death of the Briton, Neil Heywood, 41, whose body was found last November in a hotel in Chongqing, the sprawling municipality Mr. Bo led until his downfall.

Violent crimes in the US fell 5.5% last year, with the biggest drop coming in the South, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday. The FBI reported declines in all four categories of violent crime: murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down as unconstitutional sentences of life in prison without possible release for juveniles who commit a crime other than murder.

A Connecticut judge dismissed murder and rape charges Wednesday against a man who spent two decades in prison before DNA testing showed he could not have committed the crimes.