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Byline: Reis Thebault, John D. Harden OAKLAND, Calif. - Just when things were looking especially dire for the leadership of this proud Bay Area city, they got worse. And worse. [...]

While massacres like those in Buffalo and Uvalde are much publicized, lower-profile attacks exact a dreadful toll. Just after midnight on Father's Day, a volley of gunshots crackled around 135th [...]

Byline: Jennifer Hassan LONDON - The calm of a British summer evening in London's famous Hyde Park was violently interrupted on Tuesday as a large group of men brandishing what [...]

PARIS -- The police in France received drastically more reports of sexual crimes last year, according to a government analysis that found victims had grown more willing to come forward, [...]

LONDON -- On the very last day of a year in which crimes involving knives surged in London -- and became a hot-button political issue -- the police took solving [...]

Byline: Greg Toppo, and Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY Violence surged in major U.S. cities over Memorial Day weekend, bringing new highs for homicides in Chicago and Baltimore after years of [...]

Byline: Henry Gass Ken Hartman is 55 and healthy, but he says he feels like he was killed decades ago. When he was 19, he beat a homeless man to [...]

Byline: Trevor Hughes, USATODAY Sheriffs from Colorado and neighboring states Kansas and Nebraska say in a lawsuit to be filed today that Colorado's marijuana law creates a 'crisis of conscience' [...]

Byline: David Agren, Special for USA TODAY The recent disappearance of 43 students and discovery of mass graves with the remains of 28 charred bodies offer an alarming reminder that [...]

Byline: David Agren, Whitney Eulich As tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Mexico this week to call for the return of 43 students who went missing [...]

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. -- It was the perfect night to take the dog out. The temperature was just so. Clear skies made for spectacular star gazing. And the light sea [...]

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia -- The shocking video, taken from a security camera, showed the killer in a backward baseball cap and dark glasses, stalking his terrified prey in broad daylight [...]

MEXICO CITY -- The new government here, which has complained that Mexico's image has been sullied by persistent reports of violent crime, presented data on Wednesday that it said showed [...]

Byline: TU THANH HA FOLIO: DEATH DATA DECODED On a rural road in the Beauce region of Quebec, Stéphane Doyon was driving his family in March, 2011, when he intentionally [...]

A 2-month-old boy was grazed by a bullet in the Bronx on Wednesday night, the police said. The shooting occurred around 11 p.m. outside an apartment building at 1215 Seneca [...]

SEATTLE -- The worst surge of gun violence in years, culminating last week in six deaths over the course of an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday morning-into-afternoon, has deeply stressed this city, [...]

There is no proof that the zero-tolerance policing adopted by New York and other cities in the 1990's had anything to do with the decline in violent crime across the [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's government, faced with a devastating 10-day police strike that apparently contributed to a spike in killings in the northeast, is facing a new police strike [...]

NEWARK -- The violence that broke out on St. James Place here on Friday morning had a familiar ring. A man and a woman -- shot in their backs around [...]