Penticton’s most wanted is Thomas Lawrence Grant. (Photo: Crime Stoppers)

You could have the missing piece of the puzzle that will help the RCMP put someone behind bars. Here are some recent crimes that Central Okanagan Crime Stoppers hope you can help solve by calling our anonymous tips line at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), visit our website at www.crimestoppers.net or text to CRIMES (274637), keyword Ktown.  CRIME:  [...]

Reported Hate Crimes On The Rise In New York City

Many of us consider the Big Apple as a safe haven for LGBT people. And in many ways it is: marriage equality, for example, begins next weekend, and it’s not uncommon to see two men or two women holding hands as they walk down Broadway. Be that as it may, New York’s Division of Criminal [...]

Heather Yakin: Hate crimes, still small in number, on the rise – Times Herald

Print this Article Email this Article Can’t we all just get along? Apparently not. According to the 2010 annual report on hate crime in New York state, hate crime reports were up by 2 percent in 2010 compared with 2009. In the bucolic non-New-York-City counties of upstate New York, hate crimes actually decreased by 14 [...]

How USA TODAY analyzed border crime trends

By Maxine Park, USA TODAY A border fence separates San Diego fromTijuana, Mexico. Article source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2011/07/us-mexico-border-violence/49399232/1

Suspects named in synagogue vandalism

Print Email Comment (0) <!– Recommend ( 0 ) –> published: Thursday, July 14, 2011 Suspects named in synagogue vandalism MOUNT DORA THERESA CAMPBELL | Staff Writer theresacampbell@dailycommercial.com Mount Dora police have arrested the alleged ringleader who defaced a local synagogue and have identified three others linked to the hate crime. Cory Gallman, 20, of [...]

Breaking: Ted Danson takes over ‘CSI’

Image Credit: Jason Kempin/Getty Images The crime scene behind the yellow tape just got a lot more interesting on CSI. CBS is set to announce that Ted Danson will take over for Laurence Fishburne as the drama’s leading man for the show’s 12th season. Danson will play the CSI supervisor for the grave shift after [...]

Crime lurks outside airports, rail stations

Frequent business traveler Jim Shriner says it’s too risky to walk through neighborhood streets outside the Philadelphia and Newark airports. By Eileen Blass, USA TODAY Grime just down the street from 30th Street Railroad Station in Philadelphia. By Eileen Blass, USA TODAY Grime just down the street from 30th Street Railroad Station in Philadelphia. “I [...]

Police: Chicago crime down for 30th straight month

E-Mail Print Text Size: CHICAGO — Police in the nation’s third largest city say overall crime was down 4.2 percent last month compared with a year ago, making it the 30th consecutive month that most categories of crime have dropped in Chicago. Preliminary data released Sunday shows that homicides fell by 14.4 percent last month [...]

Prosecute the crime, not the alleged rape victim

COMMENTARY A judge has lifted former International Monetary Fund Seducer-in-Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s house arrest, releasing him on his own recognizance while retaining his passport until the end of proceedings. Charges of sexual assault on a New York hotel maid in May still stand but for how long? The shift: the Manhattan District Attorney’s office wrote [...]

S. Carolina opens Spanish-language phone line to report crimes

Columbia –  In South Carolina, where a tough anti-immigrant law was just enacted, a group of county sheriffs announced Friday a Spanish-language phone line over which Hispanics can report crimes. Any Latinos who know of an incident or a possible crime in their community can call S.C. Crime Stoppers in their own language at 888-274-6372 [...]

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