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Two 13-year-old boys are charged with two armed carjackings that occurred blocks from each other Friday night in D.C. This comes almost a week after another pair of teens were accused of a fatal carjacking also in the District... D.C. Police said that in both cases, the drivers were inside their cars... ...While exploring what appears to be a troubling trend in D.C., News4’s Shomari Stone reported that at least 19 carjackings in the District this year out of 95 have involved juveniles.

A 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with a cyber attack that disrupted virtual learning in Florida's largest school district. The Miami-Dade School Police (MDSPD) made the announcement Thursday, saying detectives traced the IP address "responsible for the attacks" to the teenager, identified only as a "junior at South Miami Senior High School."

[Florida] State Attorney Angela Corey said Wednesday she draws a line on gun crimes when it comes to her office’s decisions to charge juveniles as adults. “Some of these kids … are bigger than any person in this room and some of them are meaner than anybody you’ve ever come across,” [Corey] said.

D.C. police, frustrated that a teenage robbery suspect they have arrested kept getting released, took to cyberspace yesterday in an unusual effort to lobby judges and city officials to keep him off the streets. Exasperated by the third arrest of the same suspect in a string of 21 robberies, a D.C. police official sent an electronic bulletin to residents of Columbia Heights pleading for them to flood Peter Nickles, the city's top attorney, with calls and e-mails demanding that the suspect not be released. As of last night, he hadn't been. Under the subject line "ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT ALERT,"...

It began with a crush, police said, and turned into one of the most shocking crimes in Milwaukee's long, violent summer: an 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by as many as 20 boys while a 16-year-old girl she was romantically interested in watched and coached her. The 16-year-old and a 15-year-old boy have been charged in juvenile court in the alleged attack, which authorities said took place Monday in a house on the city's north side. The teenage girl's 40-year-old uncle might also be charged, authorities said. The youth's names were not released because of their ages. Investigators are still...

Fact-o-ramaThe incidence of homicide, aggravated assault, rape and robbery committed by juveniles is tracked by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Data for 2002, the most recent year available, shows that juveniles aged 12 to 17 were involved in 278 thousand serious violent crimes. But that number is way down from the 1 million, 108 thousand serious violent crimes committed by juveniles in 1993. In fact, the 2002 figure is the lowest for the period involving 1980 to 2002. (SOURCE: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics)

After her adopted son returned from a juvenile correctional center two Christmases ago, Lillie Wilbourn tried to keep him out of trouble. She paid someone to drive him to and from school. She locked the door at home, so he couldn’t stay there during the day when he should have been in class. She tried to get him a job. But in November, a juvenile court judge in Portsmouth ruled that the teenager had violated his parole because he wasn’t attending school, wasn’t looking for a job and wasn’t keeping his curfew. The 17-year-old was committed to the state Department...

MILFORD, Conn. (AP) - Local police have charged an 11-year-old girl with sexually assaulting another youth in a north Milford neighborhood, the Connecticut Post reported. The girl's identity and details of the case were not made public because of state laws prohibiting the release of detail information in juvenile cases, police and prosecutors said. Police arrested the girl last month and charged her with five counts each of sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor, charges that could send an adult to prison for life if convicted. The existence of the case became public Friday when police released...

2nd teen arrested in shooting Lakewood police have arrested a second teen in connection with the shooting of a man who was firing paintballs at pedestrians. The 16-year-old boy was arrested at his home Tuesday on charges of being an accessory to attempted murder, juvenile possession of a handgun and first-degree burglary in the gun's theft from a home. Police on Friday arrested Michael Barttels, 16, the suspected gunman. Investigators believe Barttels and the other teenager were walking in the 800 block of Oak Street on April 1 when a group of pranksters shot at them with paintballs. Barttels fired...