The man accused of being the "Kendall Rapist" in the early 1900s is now charged with five sexual assaults in the Miami suburb. ...more

May 1, 2009

Sgt. David Azuelo stepped gingerly over the specks of blood on the floor, took note of the bullet hole through the bedroom skylight, raised an eyebrow at the lack of furniture in the ranch-style house and turned to his squad of detectives investigating one of the latest home invasions in this Arizona city. ...more

March 23, 2009

Indiscriminate kidnappings. Nearly daily beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents. ...more

January 19, 2009

Mexican officials are trying to persuade Americans to visit Ciudad Juarez, touting the city in a new billboard campaign as a "land of encounters." But on the U.S. side of the border, that sounds like a cruel joke. ...more

October 16, 2008

TAMPA - Representatives from more than 50 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies met in Tampa on Thursday to participate in an exercise to strengthen security planning when the city hosts Super Bowl XLIII in February. ...more

September 18, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Parliament on Thursday rejected the nomination of one of President Rene Preval's advisers as the next prime minister of Haiti, which has now gone two months with its No. 2 political post empty. ...more

June 13, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Thousands of protesters rallied outside government buildings in the Haitian capital Wednesday, demanding officials crack down on a four-year kidnapping scourge that has terrorized the Caribbean country. ...more

June 5, 2008

A top Hezbollah commander, long sought by the United States for his role in terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Americans in the 1980s, died Tuesday night in Damascus when a bomb detonated under the car he was in, Syrian officials said. ...more

February 14, 2008

In his State of the Union address, President Bush called Afghanistan a young democracy where children go to school and Afghans are hopeful. But he didn't mention the violence that has killed 147 students and teachers, and closed 590 schools in the past year - almost as many as the 680 the United States has built. ...more

January 30, 2008

Thousands of dissidents silenced under Argentina's military dictatorship - tortured, executed and made to "disappear" in the so-called Dirty War against dissent - are gaining new voice through poetry. ...more

December 28, 2007