Homicide rate fell to lowest level in more than 30 years last year: StatsCan
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OTTAWA (CP) - The national homicide rate dropped to its lowest level in more than 30 years last year, says Statistics Canada.
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WASHINGTON -- Mortgage rates around the country fell this week, with rates on 30-year mortgages dipping to the second lowest level of the year, pushed down by further signs of economic weakness.
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WASHINGTON -- Rates on 30-year and 15-year mortgages fell this week to the lowest levels seen in six months, good news for people wanting to buy a home or refinance.
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Sales hit their lowest rate in over seven years, as tighter credit and rising inventories hurt the housing industry.
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The divorce rate falls to its lowest level for 22 years, amid a record low in marriages themselves.
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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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As violent crime rates continue to drop, experts look for explanations  -  and signs of whether the decline is permanent
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As violent crime rates continue to drop, experts look for explanations -- and signs of whether the decline is permanent
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Americans were robbed and victimized by gun violence at greater rates last year than the year before, even though overall violent and property crime reached a 32-year low, the Justice Department said Sunday.
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Britain's suicide rate for young men has plunged to its lowest level in two decades and is nearly 30 percent below its peak in 1998, the government announced on Friday.
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New York City is approaching its lowest yearly murder rate in its recorded history with the final tally on track to number below 500, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said on Wednesday.
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The suicide rate among young men in England and Wales is the lowest for 30 years, say researchers.
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The number of Japanese who killed themselves edged down last year but stayed above 30,000 as it has for nearly a decade, with suicides among the elderly rising to account for more than a third of the total, police said on Thursday.
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The U.S. abortion rate has fallen to its lowest level since 1976, with about 20 percent of pregnancies being terminated by abortion, the nonprofit Alan Guttmacher Institute reported on Thursday.
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The murder rate in Scotland falls to its lowest level since 2000 with stabbings the most common cause of death.
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Attacks on fire crews in Northern Ireland have fallen over the past year, latest figures reveal.
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Convicted murderers are being sentenced to death half as often as they were five years ago, and the population of death row is declining as a result, an anti-capital punishment information organization reported Tuesday.