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On a shady cul-de-sac in the Riverdale Homes neighborhood, residents gathered Sunday in the street and talked quietly about the friends who weren't there. "We are all very close. And very torn up about this," said Angelia Brown, 45, referring to the shooting in a northwest Miami-Dade nail salon less than 48 hours earlier that left 10-year-old Aaron Vu dead and his father, Hai Nam Vu, in the hospital fighting for his life.

A teenager, charged with murder after his math teacher was found slashed to death with a box cutter, had hid out in the school with the weapon he stole from an art class, sources claimed tonight. The body of Colleen Ritzer, 24, was found in woods behind Danvers High School on Wednesday morning after she was allegedly killed by 14-year-old student Philip Chism. The small Massachusetts town paid tribute to the slain teacher on Wednesday night with hundreds of residents holding a candle-light vigil at the school where she died. Many students dressed in her favorite color pink and described...

The man under FBI investigation for making violent threats against Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz was inspired to encourage violence by Democratic Party messaging efforts. Troy Gilmore, Jr., who identifies himself as having served in the U.S. Navy, is under FBI investigation for possible violent threats on Twitter against Republican senator Cruz. The FBI has communicated with Gilmore as part of the investigation and is monitoring for possible violence inspired by Gilmore’s online writings. “Given this is a security matter, all I can say is that we have notified the appropriate authorities of the threats,” Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier told...

Paraphrasing: "Alexis was a liberal. He was not happy at all with the former administration and was upset about it [Bush]. I on the other hand am Conservative and we agreed to disagree on politics. He was very much for this [Obama] Administration and was very gung-ho for his agenda."

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Authorities are looking for a man they say shot a teenager playing basketball on a middle school court in Miami Gardens. The 18-year-old was injured in the Wednesday night shooting....

[BROOKLYN, Md] The victim, a 43-year-old man, told officers that he was walking in the area and ran into a group of five teens, who punched and kicked him, knocking him to the ground. He said some of the teens stole some of the clothes he was wearing before they ran away.

Portland is in the middle of a nasty bout of black mob violence. This time directed at bicyclists. But Tim Oberlander does not want us to know. Oberlander says he wants to be able to live in a city that does good things for good people. So what’s wrong with that? Everything.

Ginger Slepski was driving through Pittsburgh’s North Side when a group of black teens threw things at her car. She got out and asked them “what is your problem?” Then they proceeded to beat her senseless, calling her a “white bitch” and other racial slurs. WPXI has the video and the story. So where is Eric Holder? Where is Jocelyn Samuels (jocelyn.samuels@usdoj. gov), the replacement for Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez who could prosecute this crime under federal civil rights laws? Remember those? Those are the ones Eric Holder made a point to mention at the NAACP convention in Orlando,...

Andy Sweeney posted the selfie on Reddit, hoping to find the positive side to the violence that left him with a broken smile on a Northeast Portland street last weekend. In the photo, the 20-year-old bicycle commuter and recent transplant from the Midwest flashed two shattered front teeth. "Some kids threw a traffic cone at me while I was riding my bike down MLK," Sweeney wrote next to the photo of his now-jagged incisors. "Any other (expletive) areas I should avoid?" Portland police, however, are taking Saturday night's unprovoked attack of Sweeney near Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and...

Two teenage boys are charged in the bloody beating of Delbert Belton outside a Spokane, Washington ice skating rink and investigators are now suggesting the soldier—who took a bullet in the Battle of Okinawa—tried to stop the apparent robbery. Police say that enraged the teens and turned their petty theft into full-blown murder as they continued to beat him into submission with ‘big, heavy flashlights.’ ‘Our information is that the individual fought back and that may have made this, you know, a worse situation,’ said Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub in a Monday press conference.

An Australian baseball player who was allegedly shot and killed at random while he was jogging wasn't targeted because of his race or nationality, the prosecutor in charge of the case said Friday. "At this point, the evidence does not support the theory that Christopher Lane was targeted based upon his race or nationality," District Attorney Jason Hicks said in a statement. Hicks acknowledged that social media posts allegedly made by some of the defendants are racial in nature, but he said "the evidence is insufficient to establish that race was the primary motive" in Lane's slaying.

In Spokane, Washington, on Wednesday night, according to local reports, World War II veteran and Battle of Okinawa survivor Delbert Belton was beaten by two African American teenagers described as between the ages of 16 and 19. Belton passed away Thursday morning of head injuries.

A 14-year-old Mississippi boy, his male police officer lover and two other men have been arrested in a twisted plot to murder the teen's father, bury the body in a shallow grave and destroy the evidence, authorities and family members say. Blake Thompson allegedly lured his father Kenneth Thompson, 53, into a trap in Pike County, Mississippi, with the help of Greg Fortenberry, 26, and LeJerrious Perkins, 17, on Sunday. When Mr Thompson arrived, the three suspects slashed his throat, killing him, according the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. Blake, a teenage runaway, then enlisted the help of 25-year-old Jasper Pittman,...

<p>A cell-phone video captures the 13-year-old boy’s screams for help as he’s pummeled with fists and kicked by three bigger, older youths who “ganged up” on him as he was about to get off at his bus stop.</p> <p>The black teens beat the white sixth-grader for roughly a minute before opening the emergency-exit door and fleeing the bus.</p>

Verdell Hunter, the grandmother of Dominique Lane who is accused of shooting a baby in a stroller, says her grandson is the victim. “I feel sorry for the mother. I feel sorry for the baby. And my baby is innocent. He could’ve been dead too,” said Brenda Moses, Lane’s mother. Outside court Monday, Moses and Lane’s grandmother, Verdell Hunter, said Lane doesn’t know Elkins. Hunter said her family doesn’t know exactly what happened, but her grandson lives in the area and told her he was simply walking by when he saw Elkins. “He’s a victim,” Hunter said. “He said that...

An elderly Roxbury nun buying tickets to the annual Lenten Fish Dinner on Mission Hill had the money stolen as soon as she pulled it out of her wallet. “A hand came in and took my money,” Sister Alice Kenneally, 85 told the Herald. “I told him to give it back, but he said he didn’t take it. But I saw it right in his hand. I said ‘I see it. That’s mine.’ ” The man ran away still clutching her money and a secretary at the Mission Church on Tremont Street called police. The nun was not hurt during the...

A teen’s self-incriminating Tweet — “My hands hurts (sic) from last night” — helped Transit cops link the student to last week’s vicious beating of an MBTA bus driver by a group of young thugs, a prosecutor told a judge yesterday. Albert Kemmory Galloway Jr., 18, was ordered held on $15,000 cash bail at his Dorchester District Court arraignment after his arrest on charges of assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon — a shod foot — and interfering with a bus driver. Andre McGeehan, Galloway’s lawyer, asked Baylor to release her client on personal recognizance, saying...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police were on alert in Brooklyn on Tuesday night for another round of violence stemming from a deadly officer-involved shooting. Just like on Monday night, crowds gathered to protest the weekend police-involved shooting of what cops said was an armed 16-year-old boy. As CBS 2’s Dick Brennan reported, Tuesday’s crowd was largely peaceful, but there was pushing, shoving and shouting and one arrest. The crowd marched down Church Avenue in East Flatbush, to the 67th Precinct. The residents expressed themselves with loud, profanity-laced chants denouncing police practices, 1010 WINS’ Sonia Rincon reported.

A vigil for a teenager fatally shot by cops turned into a riot in Brooklyn last night, as a mob of outraged thugs ransacked stores, broke car windows and assaulted residents in East Flatbush. The chaos erupted after about 200 people gathered to mourn 16-year-old Kimani “Kiki” Gray, a reputed Bloods gang member who was shot after pulling a gun on police Saturday. The teen had a rap sheet that included four prior arrests, including on charges of grand larceny and possession of stolen property. Gray was a ranking member of the Bloods gang, a law-enforcement source said, and his...

President Barack Obama said if he had a son, he would have to think "long and hard" before he let him play football and suggested he--along with other football fans--watches football against his conscience. "I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football," Obama said. In an interview with the left-of-center New Republic, Obama said football will "probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence" and that may allow fans to not have to "examine our consciences...