http://www.mail.com/subjects/2552-violent-crime.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/2552-violent-crime.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The family of a man who was among six people gunned down at his Minneapolis office last year is suing the company, claiming it botched the firing of the employee who carried out the attack and should have known from his work history that he was potentially dangerous. The lawsuit being filed on behalf of Jacob Beneke's family is the firs... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862138-apnewsbreak-family-sues-minn-office-attack.html 2013-02-01T20:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862844-indian-film-star-faces-homicide-charge.html MUMBAI, India (AP) — An attorney says Indian movie star Salman Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in jail. Deepesh Mehta, Khan's lawyer, says a magistrate on Thursday accepted an appeal by state government prosecutors that he should be charged wi... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/1862844-indian-film-star-faces-homicide-charge.html 2013-02-01T19:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — After four anxious days, only the slimmest of details has come to light in a police standoff with an Alabama man who is accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in a bunker, a sign of just how delicate the negotiations are. Police have used a ventilation pipe to the underground bunker to talk to the man and deliver the boy med... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:12:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1862142-authorities-release-photo-accused-ala-abductor.html 2013-02-02T02:12:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html CHICAGO (AP) — They are counting the dead from gunfire again in Chicago, a city awash in weapons despite having one of the strictest gun-control ordinances in the nation. After a year in which Chicago's death toll surpassed 500, the bloodshed has continued in 2013 at a rate of more than one killing a day. It was the city's deadliest January in more than a... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:33:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1862736-chicago-takes-leading-role-national-gun-debate.html 2013-02-01T20:33:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861142-police-chief-sign-fear-slain-attorney.html KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) — Authorities don't know whether a Texas prosecutor who had extensive experience with organized crime feared for his life before he was fatally shot, but they're poring through the cases he handled for leads to his killer, officials said Friday. No arrests have been made since Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was gunned down Thur... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861142-police-chief-sign-fear-slain-attorney.html 2013-02-02T00:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861874-hunt-murderer-mistakenly-freed-chicago.html CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities searched Friday for a convicted murderer from Indiana who was mistakenly released after a Chicago court appearance, as officials in Illinois admitted they lost paperwork directing them to return him to Indiana. It turned out Steven L. Robbins didn't even need to be brought to Chicago in the first place, and Cook County officials... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861874-hunt-murderer-mistakenly-freed-chicago.html 2013-02-02T00:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861836-sweden-orders-retrial-convicted-serial-killer.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — Once considered Sweden's worst serial killer, Sture Bergwall confessed to more than 30 murders over three decades, and was convicted of eight of them. Years later, he changed his mind and said his ghastly tales of slaughter, rape and even cannibalism were all lies, spawned by loneliness, a desire for attention and heavy medication. In wha... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861836-sweden-orders-retrial-convicted-serial-killer.html 2013-02-01T17:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861756-milan-court-convicts-3-americans-cia-kidnapping.html MILAN (AP) — A Milan appeals court on Friday vacated acquittals for a former CIA station chief and two other Americans, and instead convicted them in the 2003 abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program. The decision means that all 26 Americans tried in absentia for the abduction now hav... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1861756-milan-court-convicts-3-americans-cia-kidnapping.html 2013-02-01T17:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861896-law-firm-phoenix-lawyer-dies-shooting-wounds.html PHOENIX (AP) — A lawyer wounded by a gunman in a Phoenix office shooting this week has become the second victim to die in the attack, authorities said Friday. Mark Hummels, 43, had been on life support at a Phoenix hospital after Wednesday morning's shooting that killed a company's chief executive and left a woman with non-life threatening injuries. Humme... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861896-law-firm-phoenix-lawyer-dies-shooting-wounds.html 2013-02-01T21:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860398-shot-armenia-presidential-hopeful-seeks-vote-delay.html YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The shooting of a presidential candidate threw Armenia's election into disarray Friday, with the wounded victim saying he will call for a delay of the vote. Paruir Airikian, 63, was shot and wounded by an unidentified assailant outside his home in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, on Thursday just before midnight. Airikian said from t... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:55:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860398-shot-armenia-presidential-hopeful-seeks-vote-delay.html 2013-02-01T19:55:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858394-negotiators-talking-to-ala-captor-through-pipe.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — More than three days after he allegedly shot a school bus driver dead, grabbed a kindergartner and slipped into an underground bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes was showing no signs Friday of turning himself over to police. Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe leading to the bunker, hostage negotiators have tried to talk the 65-yea... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858394-negotiators-talking-to-ala-captor-through-pipe.html 2013-02-01T11:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858708-la-archbishop-relieves-retired-cardinal-duties.html LOS ANGELES (AP) — Retired Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic diocese, was stripped of his duties Thursday by his successor as the Los Angeles archdiocese released thousands of pages of personnel files of priests accused of child molestation. "I find these files to be brutal and painful reading," Archbishop Jose ... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858708-la-archbishop-relieves-retired-cardinal-duties.html 2013-02-01T07:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861154-metal-detectors-ga-school-where-student-shot.html ATLANTA (AP) — A middle school where a 14-year-old boy was shot and wounded in the neck by a fellow student had metal detectors, and school officials were investigating how the shooter made it past them. Police swarmed Price Middle School just south of downtown Thursday afternoon minutes after reports of the shooting. A crowd of anxious parents gathered i... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1861154-metal-detectors-ga-school-where-student-shot.html 2013-02-01T07:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859950-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-us-school.html ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief Geor... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1859950-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-us-school.html 2013-02-01T02:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860888-china-punishes-tibetans-self-immolation-cases.html BEIJING (AP) — Chinese courts convicted eight Tibetans over accusations they incited others to self-immolate in the first such prosecutions to become publicly known, showing Beijing's resolve to stamp out the protests by criminalizing both the protesters and their supporters. The convictions Thursday, reported by the official Xinhua News agency, also appe... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1860888-china-punishes-tibetans-self-immolation-cases.html 2013-02-01T01:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860300-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-ga-school.html ATLANTA (AP) — A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said. Multiple shots were fired in the courtyard of Price Middle School just south of downtown about 1:50 p.m. and the one boy was hit, Atlanta Police Chief Geor... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:38:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860300-police-teen-shot-fellow-student-ga-school.html 2013-02-01T01:38:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1859944-jennifer-hudson-to-sing-with-sandy-hook-chorus.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jennifer Hudson will join the chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing "America the Beautiful" before Sunday's Super Bowl game. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said Thursday that the Grammy and Oscar-winning singer would join the Sandy Hook chorus. It features 26 children from the school in Newtown, Conn., where 20 first-graders an... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1859944-jennifer-hudson-to-sing-with-sandy-hook-chorus.html 2013-01-31T19:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858548-congress-grapples-with-gap-scofflaw-contractors.html WASHINGTON (AP) — With thousands of civilian contractors remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan, Justice Department officials want Congress to resolve a legal issue they say obstructs efforts to prosecute any such workers who rape, kill or commit other serious crimes abroad. Scofflaw Pentagon employees and contractors supporting the American war mission overse... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858548-congress-grapples-with-gap-scofflaw-contractors.html 2013-01-31T18:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858812-somali-govt-charges-woman-who-was-raped.html MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The Somali government has charged a woman who has said she was raped by security forces, according to an international human rights group, which says the case is politically motivated. The group said a journalist who interviewed her was also charged. Human Rights Watch said three other people including the woman's husband were ch... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1858812-somali-govt-charges-woman-who-was-raped.html 2013-01-31T14:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858326-conn-town-residents-urge-stricter-gun-control.html NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — One after another, Newtown residents stepped to the microphone and urged Connecticut lawmakers to stop another tragedy like the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and take action, such as banning high-powered, military style rifles and high-capacity magazines. While a General Assembly bipartisan task force heard Wednesda... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858326-conn-town-residents-urge-stricter-gun-control.html 2013-01-31T09:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858250-ana-to-seek-damages-boeing-787-woes.html TOKYO (AP) — Japan's All Nippon Airways is prepared to recoup from Boeing whatever damages it suffers from flight cancellations and other costs caused by the worldwide grounding of 787 jets, a senior executive said Thursday. All Nippon Airways Co. Chief Financial Officer Kiyoshi Tonomoto said the airline was focused on investigating the cause of the 787 b... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858250-ana-to-seek-damages-boeing-787-woes.html 2013-01-31T09:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858324-realistic-school-shooting-drills-be.html "I want to see my kids! Bang! Bang!" the man shouted as he stormed into the front office of a South Carolina elementary school and pointed a handgun at a secretary and custodian. Both went limp at the verbal gunshots, and the "shooter," a police officer taking part in a school safety drill, continued his rampage. While an assistant principal dialed 911, t... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1858324-realistic-school-shooting-drills-be.html 2013-01-31T08:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857688-zimmerman-wants-to-delay-trial-martin-shooting.html ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with shooting Trayvon Martin to death on Wednesday asked for more time to prepare his case, saying prosecutors had been slow to turn over evidence. At the same time, Zimmerman's lead attorney, Mark O'Mara, renewed his request for donations to George Zimmerman's legal defens... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:57:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857688-zimmerman-wants-to-delay-trial-martin-shooting.html 2013-01-31T06:57:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858352-developments-us-debate-guns.html Developments Wednesday connected to the debate over gun violence and weapons control in the U.S.: GIFFORDS BEFORE CONGRESS Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, still recovering from a Tucson shooting spree that killed six people, implored federal lawmakers at an emotional hearing to act quickly to curb firearms. "Too many children are dying," she said ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1858352-developments-us-debate-guns.html 2013-01-31T06:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1855258-standoff-ala-gunman-holed-up-with-kidnapped-boy.html MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 5-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said. SWAT teams took up positions around the gunman's rural property and police negotiators tried to win the kindergarten... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:48:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1855258-standoff-ala-gunman-holed-up-with-kidnapped-boy.html 2013-01-31T04:48:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1858002-msnbc-criticized-editing-gun-hearing-video.html NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC invited viewers Wednesday to draw their own conclusions about whether the parent of a Connecticut school shooting victim was heckled at a legislative hearing but didn't address criticism that it aired a deceptively edited video of the event. The NBC-owned cable news network found itself under attack for its editing practices less tha... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1858002-msnbc-criticized-editing-gun-hearing-video.html 2013-01-31T02:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1856886-suspected-doc-killer-was-patient-with-appointment.html NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A retired barber accused of fatally shooting a California urologist was a patient who had an appointment with the victim and brought the gun with him to the exam room, prosecutors said Wednesday. Stanwood Fred Elkus, 75, was charged with murder in the Monday attack that killed Dr. Ronald Gilbert. The 52-year-old doctor was sho... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1856886-suspected-doc-killer-was-patient-with-appointment.html 2013-01-31T01:16:00Z