Local crime rate moves up for 2003
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Serious crime rose by 8.3 percent in Santa Clarita last year, while it decreased in Los Angeles and nationwide, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI.
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Violent crime in the United States  declined 2 percent in the first half of 2004, but there was an  increase in the number of rapes, the FBI said on Monday.
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Delinquencies and foreclosures among homeowners with weak credit moved higher in the first three months of the year.
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Violent and property crime rates in  the United States remained at their lowest levels in 30 years  during 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Sunday.
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Courts have seen the number of sex offense cases involving juvenile offenders rise dramatically in recent years, an Associated Press review of national statistics found, and treatment professionals say the offenders are getting younger and the crimes more violent.
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Los Angeles saw a 14 percent jump in gang-related violent crime last year.
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Consumer prices rose 7.1 percent, the largest increase in more than a decade.
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Crimes by older people in Japan jumped threefold this year compared with a decade ago, domestic media reported on Friday.
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The number of people charged with racially aggravated offences rose by 28% last year, figures show.
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Murder rates for 2004 decline in many cities, but gang violence leads to some exceptions.
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Big-city murders rose sharply in 2006 as violent crime increased nationally for the second straight year, the FBI reported Monday.
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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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Massachusetts experienced the second-biggest increase in foreclosure activity in the country last month, according to a report yesterday from a firm that tracks the housing market.
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Violent crime rose by double-digit percentages over the last two years, reversing the declines of the 1990s.
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Arrests for football hooliganism rose last season for the first time in four years, figures show.
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Health officials reported that the rate of suicide in Americans ages 10 to 24 increased 8 percent from 2003 to 2004, the largest jump in more than 15 years.
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City officials are move up a nighttime curfew as they try to overcome a spike in crime that's been marked by a rise in juvenile arrests.