Figures show homicide rate up 27%
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise in deaths in the last year.
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The rate of delinquencies and foreclosures rose to 4.7 percent from July through September.
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Crime in England and Wales remains stable, figures show, but police report rises in drug offences and robbery.
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The nation's accidental death rate has been gradually creeping higher and is up 12 percent compared to the lowest rate on record, in 1992, according to a report released Thursday by the National Safety Council.
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Alcohol-related deaths on U.S. roads rose to their highest level in 14 years in 2006, while the overall number of people killed in traffic crashes declined slightly but still topped 43,000, according to preliminary government estimates on Friday.
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City officials Thursday acknowledged 2003 crime figures were way off. What looked like a drop in crime to historic lows turned out to be a 4 percent rise.
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The number of people in the UK dying from alcohol-related problems is continuing to rise, latest figures show.
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Murders of children in U.S. military  families in North Carolina were more than double the state  average over a 15-year period, according to a study released on  Thursday.
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The death rate from injury in the United States is rising this decade after declining since the late 1970s, spurred by increases in accidental poisonings and suicides, health officials said on Thursday.
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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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BAGHDAD, May 23 -- More than three months into a U.S.-Iraqi security offensive designed to curtail sectarian violence in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, Health Ministry statistics show that such killings are rising again.
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More than 27,000 people respond to the government-sponsored public consultation on smoking in public places.
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Suicides among children and young  adults rose by an alarming 8 percent in 2004, the largest rise  in 15 years, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention reported on Thursday.
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According to the report, 3,709 Iraqis were killed in October, up slightly from the previous all-time high in July.
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A recent rise in violent crime accelerated in the first half of 2006, providing the clearest sign yet that the nation is in the midst of a prolonged increase in murder, assaults and other violent offenses, the FBI reported today.
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Crime dipped slightly for the first half of 2007, the FBI reported Monday, signaling a stop to a 2-year increase in violence nationwide.
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Violent crime in the United States rose more than previously believed in 2006, continuing the most significant increase in more than a decade, according to an FBI report released yesterday.