Report finds U.S. school killings not on the rise
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Killings at U.S. schools have not risen in recent years, despite some highly publicized crimes, and are far lower than in the early 1990s, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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Deaths among Iraq civilians, police and soldiers dropped slightly last month but the number of wounded rose, indicating little easing of violence since the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, government figures showed Monday.
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Two US soldiers in Iraq have been charged with murder for the deaths of three Iraqis. Military officials are saying little about what they call an ongoing investigation into the circumstances surrounding the case.
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A guns-drawn raid at a high school last year did not violate civil rights laws and the case is closed, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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Accountability is a popular concept, but a poll finds Americans hesitant to punish schools for poor results.
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Overall violence continues to decline in Iraq, although the rate of decrease has slowed since September and a few indicators have actually gone up in recent weeks, according to U.S. military figures released yesterday by the White House.
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Authorities offered no further insight into the motive of a teenager accused in the shooting deaths of his father, mother and two brothers, but experts say such crimes are not unprecedented Â and they often come without any obvious warning signs.
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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. Homicides committed in small towns and mid-size cities took a dramatic downswing &#151; resulting in an overall 0.3 percent increase in the murder rate across the country, the new preliminary data show.
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A new federal report shows that non-fatal violence dropped dramatically between 1992 and 2002.
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The Nation's Report Card shows U.S. students are improving slightly in math, but less so in reading
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Better information by officials could have saved lives in a shooting spree on campus at Virginia Tech that left 33 people dead, a high-profile independent panel investigating the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history says.
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US fatalities, now over 1,000, change few core opinions on war.
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Murder rates for 2004 decline in many cities, but gang violence leads to some exceptions.
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Schools, doctors and police often do not share information about potentially dangerous students because they can't figure out complicated and overlapping privacy laws, according to a federal report released Wednesday on the Virginia Tech shooting.
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Civilian deaths declining but political deadlines not being met, says Congress assessment.
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TEL AVIV -- The war in Iraq did not damage international terror groups, but instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of Islamic militancy and actually &quot;created momentum&quot; for many terrorists, a top Israeli security think tank said in a report released yesterday.
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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.