CRIME

A group of Baltimore business owners is threatening to withhold taxes from the city government if it doesn’t do more to improve basic services --- including crime prevention, trash collection and stopping illegal drug and alcohol sales --- according to WBAL. The letter comes as the city and state refuse to prosecute...

A man involved in the burning down of the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct during the riots that followed the death of George Floyd last summer was sentenced to prison this week and ordered to pay $12 million in restitution. Bryce Michael Williams, 27, was sentenced to 27 months in...

(Nyamekye Daniel, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice has recovered the majority of the ransom paid to the hackers who caused a major shutdown of a Georgia-based gas pipeline, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced Monday. Alpharetta-based Colonial Pipeline reported a ransomware attack May 7 and paid 75 bitcoins,...

(Headline USA) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a pair of bills focused on “nefarious foreign influence and corporate espionage” — particularly singling out China, which steals intellectual property and infiltrates broad sectors of American society, especially academia. “There is no single entity that exercises a more pervasive nefarious...

(Tim Gruver, The Center Square) Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is being sued by the Seattle Times for allegedly mishandling public records concerning the city's handling of last summer's protests against police brutality. The lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Court on Thursday and concerns text messages sent from Durkan's city-issued iPhone between...

(Associated Press) Protesters faced off with officers in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of a Black man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force. Photos from the scene following a vigil for Winston Boogie Smith Jr., 32, showed dumpster fires in the street and a line of...

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Today’s explosion in violent crime parallels the return of 1970s-style inflation and gasoline lines. Wide ties and polyester slacks can’t be far behind. Criminals themselves are the root cause of crime---now and forevermore. But the thugs’ enablers, and sometime cheerleaders, are the root cause of nearly every...

(Emilee Larkin, Courthouse News Service) A federal judge handed a six-month prison sentence Thursday to a former Treasury official who painted herself as a whistleblower for leaking government records about targets of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. “I understand she viewed herself as a whistleblower,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods said at...

Amid the vast influx of illegal immigration, smugglers have started to use school zones to escape Border Patrol pursuit, the Washington Examiner reported. As drugs and illegal immigrants pour across the border, smugglers have increasingly decided to try to shake their pursuers rather than pull over. "They're not wanting to stop,"...

(Steve Bittenbender, The Center Square) A law firm representing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration as part of a federal investigation into the state’s handling of nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic will be paid through public funds. The governor told reporters Wednesday that his campaign funds would not pick up...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced on Instagram that the county will be issuing more concealed carry permits (CCW)to help citizens defend themselves as the homicide rate soars, according to a report from Breitbart. “So, for crime statistics, we don’t have good news – unfortunately,” Villanueva said. “We’re looking...

Counties throughout the state of Texas have started to charge illegal immigrants with child endangerment and trespassing violations, the Epoch Times reported. As tens of thousands of illegal immigrants flow across the border, the federal government has done nothing to slow the rush. In fact, President Joe Biden's rhetoric has served...