Gang violence

Podcast hosts Dub C and CJ Mac said they were using their platform to highlight the disastrous effects of gun violence on families and communities.

Since 2015, National Gun Violence Awareness Day has fallen each year on the first Friday of June to remember survivors and victims of gun violence.

Federal prosecutors said Leniz Escobar drew five men to a park in Central Islip, Long Island, in 2017 under the guise of smoking marijuana.

Assistant State's Attorney James Murphy said one suspect had been on juvenile probation after pleading guilty to carjackings and possession of a stolen vehicle.

"These are sociopathic killers that have to be sequestered from society," said one official after the attack.

"Our investigations were what led to the government dissolving the anti-corruption body," prosecutor German Arriaza said.

Gangs have turned to highways during shootouts since eye-witness accounts are so difficult at high speeds, authorities say.

Einar allegedly had strong connections with local criminal gangs and recently received several threats.

The defendant was also facing charges of racketeering and conspiracy in addition to attempted murder.

The pupil at Marion C. Moore High School has been charged with assault and suspended from school for 10 days in connection to the incident.

At least 2,207 people have died, 344 are missing, and 12,268 have been injured in the disaster's aftermath.

"We're concerned that this earthquake is just one more crisis on top of what the country is already facing."

As Father's Day approaches—a day many millions of Americans celebrate but many others stumble through—Carlos Colon's story is worth knowing.

The violent disturbance took place at a penitentiary in Quetzaltenango—a city in Guatemala's western highlands—and resulted in at least seven prisoners killed.

Of the more than 100,000 migrants who crossed the southern U.S. border in February, Customs and Border Protection reported that more 44,000 came from from the three countries known as the Northern Triangle: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. A central reason for the exodus is gang violence.

Despite his "game-changing" cooperation with prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer deemed the rapper's activities with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods "too violent" to release him immediately after sentencing.

Lt. Brian Tate, a Columbia Police Department veteran is being probed for pillorying homeless people and slighting races while calling out gang violence as a consequence for the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return a mother and her child to the U.S. after it deported them ahead of a hearing that would have seen them spared.

The 21-year-old is accused of shooting a man and then setting a car with the body on fire.

"Yo national alert, all the Crips out there, y'all f**k Kanye up," Daz Dillinger said.

Chicago is trying a carrot-and-stick approach to gang violence—offering warnings from law enforcement as well as social service support—and it's working.

The past week has been particularly bloody in the country.

Sunday's protest in Copacabana beach followed the fatal shooting of a 76-year-old woman and her daughter.

In the first six months of 2017, Cancún has seen more killings than in the whole of 2016.

The former football player committed suicide on April 19.

Upon returning home, deported Central American teens face a life or death choice: join a gang or die.

Associates of criminals Christy Kinahan and Gerry Hutch have been engaging in tit-for-tat killings.

Pope Francis also visited two Mexican jails and warned young people against a life of crime.

Did Dublin gangsters try to fool police by pretending to kill in the name of a united Ireland?

It is not yet clear why Arnold Peralta, a former player for Scottish soccer team Rangers, was attacked.