U.S. violent crimes jump in first half of 2006: FBI
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Murders, robberies and other violent crimes reported in the United States jumped 3.7 percent in the first half of the year, continuing a troubling upswing that began in 2005, the FBI said on Monday.
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U.S. housing starts jumped a larger-than-expected 6.4 percent in October to the busiest pace since December as buyers took advantage of low mortgage rates, a government report showed on Wednesday.
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U.S. housing starts unexpectedly rose 4.7 percent last month to a nearly 21-year high as single-family housing starts shot up to a record, a Commerce Department report showed on Wednesday.
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Murders in the United States dropped by nearly 6 percent in the first half of the year after rising for four straight years, the FBI reported Monday. Almost all other crimes declined, too.
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The number of violent criminals freed under  supervision who are charged with a further offence has increased by 36%.
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Nearly all of the terrorism-related statistics reported by the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI from the September 11 attacks until early 2005 had some inaccuracies, the department's inspector general said on Tuesday.
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The number of violent crimes reported nationwide dipped slightly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said today.
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Defaults have risen rapidly in the underlying mortgages in securities issued in the last half of 2006.
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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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Attacks on Windows machines in the first six months of 2004 jumped nearly four-and-a-half times over the same period last year, a security firm said Monday, leading to an explosion in the number of hacker-run bots.
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IBM has reported an increase in malware volume and sophistication as part of its security statistics report for the first half of the year.
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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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The number of violent crimes reported nationwide appears to have fallen modestly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said yesterday.
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Data from three threat reports show botnets outpacing denial-of-service attacks in the first half of 2007.
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Violent offenses are rising in midsize cities for the first time in a decade. A look at what's behind the surge - and why it won't be slowing anytime soon
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Violent crime dropped 3 percent last year even as the number of murders rose, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday in a report that had immediate reverberations in the presidential campaign.
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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.