Ex-gangster helps guard against violence
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The walk to and from David Starr Jordan High School is a perilous journey that winds through one of the city's deadliest ganglands.
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Two years after Islamic extremists attacked Bali, sunburned tourists again pack the island's beaches and bars. Paddy's Bar &#151; one of two nightclubs hit &#151; is back in business. Some of the bombers are in jail. But the grief is still sharp for those who lost loved ones.
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Money seized from organised criminals is to be used to expand two crimefighting units.
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Here's a tip for the guy who beat up a 101-year-old woman in a walker and took off with her purse: Get out of New York. The vicious mugging, caught on surveillance tape, has sparked outrage in a city where people are accustomed to hearing about strange and violent crimes. Police have launched an all-out manhunt, but it's not just the cops who want the villain's head.
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A Nigerian former state governor has  turned himself in to police after more than a year on the run,  vowing to defend himself in court against allegations of  corruption, local newspapers reported on Saturday.
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Chindamo will need a secret address to escape attacks by vigilantes.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The illegal trade in stolen and smuggled tobacco, once the work of lone, street-corner thugs, is a source of growing concern for police across the country now that organized crime is involved, a senior RCMP officer says.
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Jail never made anybody tougher. Youâre either tough before you go in or youâre not. If anything, jail makes you paranoid. Hopkins, 39, is probably boxingâs most paranoid representative.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A masked robber who beat his victim was remorseful enough to take the man to the hospital for treatment, but his change of heart didn't last long. Within hours the thief was telephoning threats to the victim, who was an acquaintance, authorities said.
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Triads are fuelling a trade that has seen a surge in violence in the aready crime-riddled Cape, writes Sam Kiley.
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Nicaraguan authorities have achieved remarkable success in combating gang violence. And instead of heavy-handed policing, they're relying on guerrilla street cred and mothers' love
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Film producer and Diamond merchant Bharat Shah has been taken into judicial custody till July 12 for beating up a security guard in Royal Palm Hotel in Mumbai on Thursday. He applied for a bail which was rejected by the Borivali Sessions court. He has been booked under the Atrocities Act.
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A mobster who inspired a movie character warned his attackers before they beat him to death that they would get in trouble, an organized crime insider testified Monday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Haiti's government and UN peacekeepers will launch a major campaign seeking to persuade hundreds of gangsters to disarm with promises of money, food, and job training, but top gang leaders will not be eligible, UN special envoy Edmond Mullet said yesterday. This is the most sweeping effort to persuade well-armed gangsters to stop violence since UN troops arrived ...
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A massive bank robbery in Northern Ireland last week might have been carried out by paramilitary group the IRA as a way of providing a "pension fund" for activists ahead of its dissolution.
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In Guatemala's worst political violence since the end of its civil war, almost 50 people have been killed in campaigning for this weekend's election, giving an ex-general who promises to crack down on crime a lift in the race for president.
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Police are looking to speak to an Australian tourist who witnessed a city centre fight which led to a man's death.