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A pair of teenage boys kidnapped, raped and attempted to murder a young woman during an armed carjacking on Halloween at an apartment complex near Coastal Carolina University, according to arrest warrants. Ja’Real Tavon Warren, 17, of Green Sea, and Mije Basnight, 16, were both arrested separately last week on numerous charges related to the incident that occurred at The Cove at Coastal Carolina. Warren remains in custody at J. Reuben Long Detention Center, while Basnight was remanded to the Department of Juvenile Justice, according to Conway Police. Warrants released for Warren detail the defendants, carrying at least one pistol,...

Police say a fight over a brownie has left a 14-year-old Houston boy dead of a stab wound to the eye and another 14-year-old boy is in juvenile custody charged with aggravated assault. Houston Independent School District police say the victim died Friday of the knife wound suffered Wednesday afternoon. District Police Chief Paul Cordova said the fight erupted after school Wednesday outside a convenience store across from the Jane Long Academy in southwest Houston. He said that when the victim was loaded into an ambulance, he still acted as if the fight were continuing. No identities have been released...

Passengers on a Bay Area Rapid Transit train were robbed, and in some cases beaten, when dozens of juveniles stormed aboard the train and forced them to give up their property, police said. The incident happened at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Coliseum Station in Oakland aboard a Dublin/Pleasanton-bound train. BART Police said witnesses reported 50 to 60 juveniles jumping the fare gates and going to the platform. After boarding the train the They boarded the train they “committed multiple strongarm robberies of bags and cell phones,” according to a police report. At least two people were hurt and were treated by...

While the Florida trial that is weighing the question of whether 29-year-old George Zimmerman committed second-degree murder, manslaughter, or is not guilty of a crime in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has dominated the media in recent days, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just released a study revealing that the homicide rate among Americans in the 10- to 24-year-old age group hit a 30-year low in 2010, the most recent year in the study. “The homicide rate among persons aged 10-24 years in 2010 was 7.5 percent per 100,000, the lowest in the 30-year study...

DONALD -- Police arrested two teenagers Friday on suspicion of felony murder in the fatal shooting of a husband and wife who reported a burglary earlier in the week at their next-door neighbor's house, police said. Gale Goode, 48, and Becky Goode, 47, were killed Thursday in their rural ranch home just outside this northern Marion County community of about 600 people. The suspects -- Jorge Ybarra, 19, and Emanuel Lopez-Delgado, 16, both of Salem -- were among three teenagers found in a car that witnesses saw leaving the street where the Goodes lived. Sheriff's deputies backed up by Oregon...

09:24 AM CST on Wednesday, February 2, 2005 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News Police on Tuesday captured a teenager suspected in the fatal weekend shooting of a 14-year-old boy. The 16-year-old suspect was taken into custody about 1:30 p.m. after a tip from an informant, police said. His name is not being released because he is a minor. One police official said the suspect had his bags packed and a bus ticket to leave the area. Ruben Juarez, a Greiner Middle School seventh-grader, was shot and killed Sunday afternoon in a shopping center parking lot in west...

POSTED: 1/26/05 9:17 AM UPDATED: 1/26/05 4:34 PM By Chris Minor EAST MOLINE, Illinois -- The dismembered body of a missing East Moline teenager has been found, and a classmate tonight is under arrest for her brutal murder. Sarah Kolb is charged with first degree murder in the death of Adrianne Reynolds, 16. Prosecutors announced the murder charge at a news conference at Illinois State Police Headquarters this morning. Authorities believe Adrianne was strangled and beaten with a wooden handle in a car in broad daylight at a Taco Bell parking lot in Moline. Later, her body was taken to...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Bill Cosby said Thursday that there is an undercurrent of anger behind the problems facing black youth in America today, and that it is up the older generation to help turn things around. "Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening," Cosby said in a speech at Frederick Douglass High School, named for the 19th-century black man who became an abolitionist leader and an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln. The Atlanta visit was...

WEYAUWEGA, Wis. -- Gary Hirte, a high school scholar, star athlete and Eagle Scout whose name seemed to be in the local paper all the time, is accused of committing murder--not for money or revenge, but just to see if he could get away with it. The Weyauwega-Fremont High senior's arrest last month was met with shock and disbelief in this town of 1,800, where Hirte has long been held in high esteem. The 18-year-old was accused of killing 37-year-old Glenn Kopitske. "He wanted to see if he could do this. It was like a challenge for him," sheriff's Capt....

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/guns/bal-te.md.breedlove15mar15.story?coll=bal%2Dhome%2Dheadlines Question for friends, family of teen: 'Why?' Student: Many mourning his death struggle to reconcile the talented athlete they knew with the youth who robbed a liquor store. By Stephanie Desmon and Joe Nawrozki Sun Staff March 15, 2002 The kids of Turners Station looked up to the Derrick Breedlove they knew - the football star with the winning smile and the full ride to college, the guy who wrote poems to the pretty girls in school, the high school senior with one foot out of their hardscrabble neighborhood. They didn't know there was another Derrick Breedlove - the...