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'Sons of Anarchy': Making a case for TV violence
I want to pay tribute to TV violence. In particular, I want to celebrate "Sons of Anarchy," FX network's bloodthirsty and brilliant drama series about ...
Rights group: Myanmar forces supported attacks
A leading international rights group on Sunday accused Myanmar security forces of supporting some of the brutal anti-Muslim violence last month that ...
Chicago's top cop: 'Code of silence' not tolerated
Just before the beating of a female bartender by an off-duty Chicago police officer persuaded him to end his own career, then-police Superintendent ...
Will Chicago act on verdict in cop beating trial?
Will the city act? That's the question many Chicagoans will be asking Wednesday — a day after the dramatic conclusion of a civil trial that stemmed ...
APNewsBreak: Idaho inmates claim gangs run prison
A gang war that appears to have taken over parts of an Idaho private prison is spilling into the federal courts, with some inmates contending prison ...
Evaluation: Calif. plant shooting suspect unstable
Employees at a California chicken-processing plant returned to work Thursday as new information surfaced about the psychological history of the ...
Big names in sports thrown for losses by voters
On a night when sports and politics went 1-on-1, name recognition scored few points with voters. Linda McMahon, linked with her husband to pro ...
Motive unclear in shooting at Calif. chicken plant
That Lawrence Jones targeted a handful of his co-workers at a chicken-processing plant, killing two of them execution-style, was evident, authorities ...
Ex-wrestling executive pinned in Conn. Senate race
Big-spending former wrestling executive Linda McMahon was smacked down again in her bid for a U.S. Senate seat Tuesday, losing on a night when sports ...
Police: Calif. shooting suspect was 'methodical'
Clattering machinery at a chicken-processing plant provided all the cover Lawrence Jones needed to kill two co-workers execution style and wound two ...
Pakistan parents killed daughter for eyeing boy
A Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family's honor ...
4 injured at USC campus shooting in Los Angeles
Violence that sometimes borders the University of Southern California crept onto campus when an argument outside a Halloween party escalated to a ...
9 charged in Fla. youth football gambling ring
Authorities said Tuesday they uncovered a massive gambling operation targeting youth football games in South Florida, leading them to arrest nine men, ...
Survivors criticize Myanmar gov't over clashes
Victims of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar lashed out at the government for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has ...
FBI: Crime reported to police fell last year
The number of violent crimes reported to police decreased 3.8 percent last year to 1.2 million, the fifth straight year of declines, the FBI announced ...
UN says 22,000 displaced in latest Myanmar unrest
Victims of Myanmar's latest explosion of Muslim-Buddhist violence fled to already packed displacement camps along the country's western coast, with ...
7 killed, 100 wounded in Nigeria church bombing
A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least seven people ...
Human rights groups decry Myanmar ethnic strife
Western Myanmar appeared calm Saturday after almost a week of deadly ethnic strife, a government spokesman said as human rights groups called for ...
Congo: 1 dead in attack on famed doctor's home
Gunmen killed a guard and fired at a renowned Congolese doctor who has helped thousands of women recover from violent rapes. Four armed assailants ...
Myanmar says ethnic strife killed 67
Myanmar authorities on Friday revised downward the death toll from this week's ethnic violence in the country's west after warning that the strife ...
56 dead in renewed ethnic violence in west Myanmar
At least 56 people have been killed and 1,900 homes destroyed in renewed ethnic violence in western Myanmar as the government warned perpetrators and ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Issues at stake in election
A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: ___ Abortion: Abortion and birth control are ...
Conn. city agrees to settle US discrimination case
A suburban Connecticut city roiled by a police bias scandal has reached a proposed settlement of U.S. claims that officers engaged in a pattern of ...
Myanmar: New clashes between Muslims, Buddhists
New clashes between Muslims and Buddhists have broken out in volatile western Myanmar, leaving at least two people dead and more than a thousand homes ...
Wisconsin shooting brings call for new law on guns
Two Wisconsin lawmakers are pushing legislation to tighten the enforcement of gun rules in domestic violence cases, prompted by a fatal shooting ...