<![CDATA[ ]]> Do Some Damage is a group of eight crime writers, each with a different voice and something to say. From grizzled vets to grizzly rooks, they pull back the curtain on the way the industry works. Whether beating deadlines or beating characters, each week they share their thoughts on reading, writing, plot, voice [...]

Fights like the one that happened on Dunklin Street Tuesday can tarnish a city’s image. Business leaders hope that’s not the case in Jefferson City. They said the capital city has a good reputation for safety around Missouri. Mark Mehmert with the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce told us, “We compare very favorable to [...]

One of the biggest reasons for snagging the Black and White (Tarred & Feathered) Lip Tars from OCC was to try to dupe Lime Crime’s Chinchilla lipstick.  It’s a super cool colour you don’t really see anywhere else and when I got mine I was a little upset with how dark it actually looked.  Lime [...]

Although the crime statistics for 2012 can only be measured through the first quarter of the year, Pittsylvania County Sheriff Mike Taylor is pleased with where the numbers are. “Statistically speaking, I think our community is much better than some and worse than others,” Taylor said. We’ve had an increase in population, [...]

MIAMI (CBS4) – The community continues to rally around the family of the 13-year-old girl killed in a DUI crash along the South Dade busway. And now, Kaely Camacho’s parents are finding strength from others who know their pain all too well. The Camachos participated in an emotional ceremony as part of National Crime Victims’ [...]

For a topic as subjective as morality, people sure have strong beliefs about what’s right and wrong. Yet even though morals can vary from person to person and culture to culture, many are practically universal, as they result from basic human emotions. We may think of moralizing as an intellectual exercise, but more frequently it’s [...]

GLASGOW, Mont. (AP) — Drug crimes in eastern Montana have more than doubled. Assaults in Dickinson, N.D., have increased fivefold in just two years. And the once-sleepy town of Plentywood, Mont., has seen three assaults with weapons in the past few months — a prospect previously unheard of in the tiny community tucked against the [...]

Webb, 34, was held on a $50,000 bond set by Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain. – Robin Fitzgerald Biloxi men arrested in property theft case BILOXI — Police arrested two Biloxi men Sunday night on a charge of receiving stolen property. Police said they found Jeremy Germaine King, 21, and Simuel Lee Alexander, 23, in [...]

(Trinidad Express) CCN TV6′s Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne was yesterday slapped with four charges, three under the Sexual Offences Act and one of resisting arrest. Late yesterday, ASP Ajith Persad, the lead investigator in the probe into the airing of a tape showing the rape of a minor, laid information on three Sexual Offences [...]

  The city of Oakland is “reforming” its police force—by letting 200cops be fired. How is the reform working? “And yet after nine years, three mayors, four police chiefs, nearly $20 million in payments to independent monitoring teams hired to oversee the police department reforms, and $57 million in the past decade to settle police [...]