Homicide level lowest in 15 years
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The number of homicides in Scotland falls by a third, bringing the figure to its lowest level since the mid-1990s.
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Combat fatalities could be as low as 23 for October, a level not seen since 2006. Iraqi losses also fall.
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Traffic deaths in the United States fell to their lowest total in five years in 2006, and the rate of deaths per miles traveled dropped to a record low, a federal safety official said Monday.
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Sharp drop is marred by a 4% rise in gun crime and a 21% rise in recorded drug offences, figures show
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Gang killings in the city dropped sharply last year after local, state and federal agencies worked together to crack down on street violence
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise of 27% in the last year.
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Police say there is no evidence linking 15-year-old boy's death to the recent sudden deaths of 14 other people in area
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WASHINGTON - The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.    The study was the latest contribution to a decade-long trend in which violent crime as measured by victim surveys has fallen by 55 percent and property crime by 49 percent...
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Texas officials canceled parole for more than 150 young offenders after learning that many had served only minimal time for violent crimes, including murder.
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Baltimore ended the year with the city's highest murder rate in eight years, despite a new police commissioner's modest success in slowing the spike in homicides
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Home building projects started in December fell by a sharper-than-expected 14.2 percent to their lowest level in more than 16 years, while permits for future building hit a 14-year low, a government report on Thursday showed.
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Unemployment fell for the 15th month in a row in August to reach the lowest level for 29 years, official figures showed.
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More murders and robberies in 2006 sent U.S. violent crimes higher for the second straight year, the FBI said on Monday, with the increase blamed on gangs, youth violence, gun crimes and fewer police on beats.
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The number of cot deaths in England and Wales fell by 15% between 2004 and 2005, provisional figures show.
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The city's overall death rate dropped to an all-time low in 2006 due in part to declines in mortality from HIV and smoking-related illness, the health commissioner said Tuesday
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The number of convicts imprisoned with death sentences dropped in 2003, which is helping to provoke the third straight annual decline in the nation's death row population, according to data released Sunday.
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The number of US state and federal inmates sent to prison under death sentences dropped to a 30-year-low in 2003 as they declined for the third consecutive year, the US Justice Department said Sunday.