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When the MS-13 gang ran the neighborhood of Las Margaritas, one of its strongholds in El Salvador, there were rules you had to follow to stay alive. You couldn't wear [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui Federal authorities have launched a tip line aimed at collecting information about MS-13 to help law enforcement go after the violent transnational gang. 'We are determined to [...]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- It's Monday: Time to pay the gangs. A bus owner wearing a red knit hat waits for the call he's gotten every Monday morning for 10 years. [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui LANGLEY PARK, Md. - After a few minutes' walk behind Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School and not far from the rusted footbridge, the line of prosecutors in dark [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - A 16-year-old who was stabbed more than 100 times before his body was set on fire was being disciplined by fellow MS-13 gang [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]President Trump, who has frequently pointed to the violent MS-13 street gang to justify his [...]

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]The young man was found face up on a blanket in a marshy park in [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui After a few minutes' walk behind Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School and not far from the rusted footbridge, the line of prosecutors in dark suits hung a left [...]

A day later on Long Island, the cruel symmetry of tragedy was still too much for family, friends and officials to comprehend. Evelyn Rodriguez, a fierce wisp of a mother [...]

Byline: Dan Morse Building a light-rail line - in this case, the 16-mile Purple Line in Maryland - often involves acquiring houses to be razed. A routine part, for construction [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal Prosecutors plan to introduce evidence during a capital murder trial that the man accused of the high-profile killing of a Muslim teen in Virginia last year had [...]

Byline: Jenna Portnoy The threat of the transnational criminal gang MS-13 has become an issue in the hotly contested race between Rep. Barbara Comstock, a Republican, and Democratic challenger Jennifer [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui The stabbing of a 16-year-old student outside a Maryland high school Tuesday was related to MS-13 and several other students are in custody in connection with the [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller The Bloods gang member was sitting at a table inside the Prince George's County, Maryland, jail last spring when two other inmates approached from behind. They [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller Christian Sosa Rivas knew he was a marked man. The brash, 21-year-old leader of an MS-13 clique in Springfield, Virginia, had incurred the wrath of rivals [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller and Dan Morse It took Abigail Bautista less than a month of living in Langley Park to learn that her new neighborhood in Maryland had its [...]

Byline: Dan Morse As many as 10 members of the MS-13 street gang lured a man into a park in Wheaton, Maryland, spoke with one another over walkie-talkies as he [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett The Justice Department under Attorney General Jeff Sessions has effectively blocked the Drug Enforcement Administration from taking action on more than two dozen requests [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal The killing of a man who was shot and stabbed to death outside a Manassas, Virginia, bar in April is related to the MS-13 street gang, according [...]

Byline: David Nakamura WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will travel Friday to Suffolk County on Long Island to highlight a rise in violent crimes by the transnational gang MS-13, as [...]

Four people have been arrested in the killings of four young Latino men on Long Island on the night of April 11, according to federal court documents that were unsealed [...]

The bodies were discovered in the woods behind a soccer field in a middle-class suburban town on Long Island. It was the middle of April, during spring break for the [...]

Byline: Michelle Ye Hee Lee 'You have a gang called MS-13. They don't like to shoot people. They like to cut people. They do things that nobody can believe. These [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller WASHINGTON - Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled top federal immigration officials Wednesday over how to prevent the violent street gang MS-13 from targeting unaccompanied [...]

Byline: Dan Morse and Michael E. Miller Christian Villagran Morales strolled a path into a darkening, densely wooded park. At his side was a woman he had met days earlier. [...]

Jefferson Villalobos fled from gangs in Honduras three years ago and found refuge in South Florida, only to die on a family vacation on Long Island, most likely at the [...]

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- The phone call came Wednesday night, delivering ominous words in an area of Long Island torn apart by gang violence. William Tigre said the caller, a [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal Police In Virginia and Maryland have identified additional suspects in separate MS-13-related killings, part of a wave of recent violence tied to the resurgent street gang. Prince [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller Her daughter had been missing for about a month when Maria Reyes hacked into the 15-year-old's Facebook account and discovered the death threats. 'Those guys want [...]

Byline: Michael E. Miller The boys had once been friends before MS-13 began recruiting one of them. Now, as other students streamed to class one April morning at William Wirt [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui The stabbing of a 16-year-old student outside a Maryland high school Tuesday was related to MS-13 and several other students are in custody in connection with the [...]

Byline: Sarah Esther Maslin SAN SALVADOR - The raids began before dawn. A thousand police fanned out across El Salvador's wrinkled landscape, busting down doors at used-car lots, intercepting cross-country [...]

Byline: Dan Morse Members of the MS-13 street gang enlisted a 19-year-old woman to lure another teenager into a darkened Montgomery County park (Maryland), where he was stabbed more than [...]

MONDAY, AUG. 14 Warrant: Killing at bar was related to MS-13 The killing of Wilfredo Guardado-Huezo, 25, of Manassas, who was shot and stabbed to death outside the bar Don [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal;Dan Morse;Michael E. Miller Danny Centeno-Miranda was 16 when he fled El Salvador, coming alone to the United States to find a path away from the violent MS-13 [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal The final minutes of the -15-year-old's life played out in a series of videos, captured by the very people who killed her, according to a search warrant. [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal;Rachel Weiner The remains of two apparent murder victims were discovered in a Northern Virginia park, and police are exploring whether the deaths are related to a resurgent [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal;Rachel Weiner Authorities in Fairfax County said they have found two sets of human remains in Holmes Run Park. Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said [...]

Byline: Mike Honda and Ami Carpenter In October, the US Treasury named the notorious MS-13 gang a transnational criminal organization. This unprecedented action aims to sanction the violent American-born street [...]

Byline: KATE HAMMER A group of 21 people arrested yesterday in an alleged illegal drug and gun distribution network may have ties to a dangerous Central American gang known as [...]