The United States may soon see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other. ...more

December 19, 2009

Unrequited love is generally portrayed in movies and songs as a harmless obsession. ...more

February 22, 2009

One form of martial arts Stephen Weed teaches his students is a Japanese style called okazaki ju-jitsu. ...more

January 24, 2009

About 3.4 million Americans identified themselves as victims of stalking during a one-year span, say federal crime experts who on Tuesday released the largest-ever survey of the phenomenon. ...more

January 14, 2009

By the tens of thousands, victims of stalking lose their jobs, flee their homes and fear for their safety, according to a new federal survey providing the most comprehensive data ever on a crime affecting an estimated 3.4 million Americans a year. ...more

January 13, 2009

A new report issued by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston finds a "dramatic surge" in homicides involving black juveniles and guns — but leaves Florida and Washington, D.C., out of the analysis. ...more

December 29, 2008

A man who collected and traded sexually explicit photographs of infants, and repeatedly raped his three daughters when they were infants and children, was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. ...more

August 14, 2008

Three-week-old Kevin fussed in mother Melissa Lankey's arms until she started singing softly to him, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." The newborn began dozing within seconds. ...more

May 25, 2008