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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The number of attempted attacks by computer viruses rocketed in the first half of the year, according to a report published today.
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The number of violent crimes increased by a larger amount than expected last year, extending the first significant rise in murders and robberies in 15 years, according to an FBI report released today.
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Home values across the United States  soared 32 percent during the first half of this decade,  according to new data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Census  Bureau.
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Violent crime fell last year, with only a slight uptick in murders marring the overall trend of fewer crimes across the country, the FBI said Monday in its annual crime report.
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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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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 has fallen for the first time in eight years, but drug-linked offences and robberies are on the rise, according to Home Office figures released Thursday.
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In the past decade, a youth gang  with its origins in El Salvador has established a major  criminal presence in the United States, bringing a new level of  violence and brutality to towns and cities across the nation.
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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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Justice Department prosecutions of international terrorism cases, which surged in volume after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, have nearly returned to the levels seen prior to the hijackings, according to an independent analysis of government data released yesterday.
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The number of firearms offences in England and Wales has risen in the last year, according to Home Office figures released on Thursday.
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The FBI says violent crime was down by a fraction in Florida last year compared to 2002. Nationally, every type of violent crime fell last year with one notable exception: Murders were up for the fourth straight year.
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Federal and state officials  said they were rounding up scores of accused organized crime figures in the largest such sweep in recent memory.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants are stepping up attacks in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, as a spate of bombings in the north of the country killed 21 people and wounded dozens.
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The FBI had more than 300 weapons and laptops lost or stolen in just under four years, and some of the computers contained sensitive or classified information, the U.S. Justice Department inspector general said on Monday in a highly critical report.
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Data from three threat reports show botnets outpacing denial-of-service attacks in the first half of 2007.