Category: Crime

India has attracted international over the rape of a young woman by a gang of men on a New Delhi bus (New Delhi Attack: The…

The Statewide Child Abuse Death Review Committee has released its annual report. Escambia County is one of the worst in the state with 100 total…

Murders, shootings, assaults, rapes…they too quickly become just numbers, one-day headlines lost in the flood of news of Justin Beiber’s tattoos, Lady Gaga’s outfits and…

Attorney General Pam Bondi released on Monday the 2011 Hate Crimes in Florida Report, which includes detailed information on the types of hate crimes being…

Last Friday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised his Police Department for newly released 2012 homicide statistics, which showed 414 murders in the city—the…

The Los Angeles Police Department offered for one day only a buyback program. Turn in a gun, get a grocery store gift card. According to…

The violent crime in Pensacola is escalating to a much more dangerous level. In 2009, I was writing about drive-by shootings. Shots were fired over…

The Pensacola Police report that the body of Torrance L. Hackworth, who was kidnapped from his residence early Monday morning, was yesterday afternoon found in…

Probably not the greatest photo op for the mayor. These types of press releases from Pensacola Police Department have become commonplace: Christmas Night Shooting Pensacola…

New York Times reports that Quebec police have arrested three men in connection with the theft of $18-million worth of maple syrup from a warehouse….

Escambia County Investigators have identified Alfred L. Watson, 28, of Pensacola found this morning as the victim of a homicide. Today about 8:50 am deputies…

Bob Schieffer asks if legislators have become too afraid of powerful lobbies to explore ways to make world safer for children. Source: CBS

Press Release: Escambia County deputies are investigating a body which was located in the woods near Wentworth St and Maxwell St about 08:50 a.m. this…

Gunshots rang out in the early hours of Sunday morning on Cervantes at the Travel Inn, a block west of Tom Ann Buddy’s. According to…

The Children’s Defense Fund published earlier this year a report (Protect Children, Not Guns 2012) on the rise of gun deaths of children and teens….

A woman trying to buy too many iPhones at a New Hampshire Apple store and ends up being Tasered by police outside the store. See…

On Thursdays, I write a column for the website Florida Voices, which is picked up the Tampa Tribune for its community papers and other papers…

The University of West Florida Police Department received a report of a sexual assault, possibly a date rape, which occurred in the early morning hours…

On Thanksgiving night, a local woman, Annette Bennett, was arrested at Wal-Mart and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting an officer without violence and trespassing after…

By Shelby Smithey… Crime and code ordinances were hot topics at Mayor Ashton Hayward’s “Taking City Hall to the Citizens” town hall meeting last night…