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Mexico capo killed, then body stolen by gunmen

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 9th

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and E. EDUARDO CASTILLOAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) - The death of the founder and leader of Mexico's brutal Zetas cartel in a firefight with marines outside a baseball game near the Texas border was perhaps the biggest coup of President Felipe Calderon's war

NY court considers: Is gang member a terrorist?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 8th

By MICHAEL VIRTANENAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - In 2002, a New York City street gang crashed a christening party, shouted out their superiority, confronted a rival and started a fight that left a 10-year-old girl dead and someone else paralyzed. On Tuesday, New York's top court will

NYPD to boost gang unit over social media violence

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 2nd

By TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Police Department is planning to double the size of its gang unit to 300 detectives to combat teen violence fueled by dares and insults traded on social media. Rather than target established street gangs involved in the drug trade, the

NYPD is watching Facebook to fight gang bloodshed

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 2nd

By TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Police investigating two gangs called the Very Cripsy Gangsters and the Rockstarz didn't need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Facebook. "Rockstarz up 3-

8 of the richest gangsters of all time

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 1st

By Manish Sahajwani

Anti-militia protests show frailty of Libyan state

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 22nd

By MAGGIE MICHAELAssociated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) - Residents of Libya's second-largest city warned on Saturday of a "revolution" to get rid of armed militias and Islamic extremists after protests spurred in part by the killing of the U.S. ambassador left four dead in an unprecedented

Republicans, IG take Justice Dept. to task

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 20th

By PETE YOSTAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans eagerly joined the Justice Department's inspector general in taking the agency to task Thursday for its bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that allowed hundreds of weapons to reach Mexican drug rings. At a committee

Justice Dept faulted in gun-trafficking operation

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 19th

By PETE YOSTAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that disregarded public safety and resulted in

Fatal police shooting stirs 3rd night of protest

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 23rd

By AMY TAXINAssociated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - The densely packed neighborhood where police shot to death an unarmed man this weekend and angry residents faced off with authorities in fiery clashes is just a few miles up the road from Disneyland, but a world away from the theme park's

UN team investigates reported Syria massacre

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 14th

By BEN HUBBARDAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - U.N. observers investigating a reported mass killing in a Syrian village on Saturday found pools of blood in homes and spent bullets, mortars and artillery shells, adding details to the emerging picture of what anti-regime activists have called one of