Pursuances

Sir Ian Blair’s fears over the power of crime drama

Reflecting upon the end of another year, few could argue Elgin saw a number of strange and disturbing moments in terms of crime throughout 2009. The death in November of 17-year-old John W. Keyes was one of those. A Streamwood woman is charged with using her car to ram the Elgin teen into the side of an apartment building.

Effective employment of the anti-money laundering mechanism by India, which vowed to fight tax havens and black-money, helped detect over 4,000 suspicious financial transactions relating to crime and terror — more than double the numbers reported last year.

Crime in Des Moines this year fell to the lowest point in at least five years, data from the Des Moines police department show.

A CRIME-FIGHTING mum has been awarded an MBE by the Queen. Karen Harrison, a senior project manager for development agency Wakefield first, has been instrumental in tackling crime against businesses since 1995.

As the government laments the missed signals in the attempted airline bombing, there remain questions about how so many clues passed unnoticed before the Fort Hood shootings.

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Vallejo police on Thursday afternoon shot and injured a man after he allegedly pointed a handgun at an officer while fleeing a robbery scene. Shortly after 3 p.m., police responded to reports of a robbery near the corner of Lemon and Sheridan streets. As…

Thursday, Dec. 31, and Friday, Jan. 1 Federal, state courts and offices Open Thursday, closed FridayCity and county offices Some open Thursday, all closed FridayBanks, savings institutions Open Thursday, closed FridayPost offices Open Thursday, closed…

A federal appeals court reaffirmed its ruling Wednesday that allowed sponsors of California’s ban on same-sex marriage to withhold campaign strategy documents from gay rights advocates who are seeking to overturn the ballot measure. The Ninth U.S. Circuit…

Mustang advocates staged a literal dog-and-pony show in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest a federal roundup of wild horses from a Nevada mountain range. The equine enthusiasts brought a miniature horse, a burro and a horse-like English mastiff to the busy…