Suspected thieves tried to break into the home of Barack Obama's elderly step-grandmother in Kenya, the U.S. presidential candidate's uncle said Thursday.
The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday it is changing its ways after an audit showed that the agency was losing guns and laptops, often through carelessness.
The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping
The mother of a missing toddler on Monday was arrested in connection with an alleged theft from one of her friends, Florida authorities said.
Data released Monday show violent crime dipped slightly nationwide in 2007. That ended two years of increases in murders, robberies, and other kinds of the worst crime in U.S. cities
When Atlanta police officers Bryan Ernest and Bernatt Collins get a burglary call, they know that the house they walk into will probably be stripped, right down to the materials inside the walls.
Once again, the 1995 Honda Civic was the most stolen car in America, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but auto theft appears to have declined dramatically for the fourth year in a row.
Modesto, Calif., has the highest rate of auto theft per capita of any metropolitan area in the country, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
The actress faces a $250 fine and no time in jail
Suspected thieves tried to break into the home of Barack Obama's elderly step-grandmother in Kenya, the U.S. presidential candidate's uncle said Thursday.
The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Wednesday it is changing its ways after an audit showed that the agency was losing guns and laptops, often through carelessness.
The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping
The mother of a missing toddler on Monday was arrested in connection with an alleged theft from one of her friends, Florida authorities said.
Data released Monday show violent crime dipped slightly nationwide in 2007. That ended two years of increases in murders, robberies, and other kinds of the worst crime in U.S. cities
When Atlanta police officers Bryan Ernest and Bernatt Collins get a burglary call, they know that the house they walk into will probably be stripped, right down to the materials inside the walls.
Once again, the 1995 Honda Civic was the most stolen car in America, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but auto theft appears to have declined dramatically for the fourth year in a row.
Modesto, Calif., has the highest rate of auto theft per capita of any metropolitan area in the country, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
The actress faces a $250 fine and no time in jail
Two of the four paintings stolen in one of the world's largest art thefts have been recovered in an abandoned car
Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700,000 Norman Rockwell painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery. It was in his collection in California.
Perhaps 20% of the results will come from rural areas ruled feudal-style. Is this any way to run a democracy?
You're not quite sure when or why it happened, but suddenly everyone in your neighborhood seems to have posted proudly in front of their houses a serious-looking sign that announces the presence of a (high-tech, expensive) alarm system. You wonder: Do I need one, too?
Los Angeles police are investigating a break-in that took place Saturday at the Hollywood Hills home of Charlize Theron.
The Hollywood-area home of Charlize Theron was burglarized last week, police said.
Four suspects indicted on murder and burglary charges in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor begin their journey through the courts on Wednesday.
A panel of judges in Italy said an American student held in connection with the killing of Meredith Kercher should stay in police custody because evidence suggested she had "fatal capacity for aggression," Italian media reported Wednesday.
A grand jury Tuesday indicted four suspects on charges of first degree felony murder and armed burglary in the slaying of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor.
The girlfriend of slain NFL player Sean Taylor said he was a simple "homebody" who did not have any of the troubles alleged by others who knew the Washington Redskins star.
O.J. Simpson was contacted by Las Vegas law-enforcement authorities after he was named as a suspect in an armed robbery of "various sports-related products" in a hotel room, police said Friday.
When the sports memorabilia collector called police to report that he had been robbed at gunpoint in a casino hotel room, he knew exactly who to point them toward.
Omaha police are investigating an attempted robbery at Warren Buffett's home, CNNMoney learned Thursday.
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A judge, citing a lack of evidence, dismissed five of seven charges filed against Penn State safety Anthony Scirrotto after an April 1 off-campus fight.
A judge, citing a lack of evidence, dismissed four of six charges filed against Penn State safety Anthony Scirrotto after an April 1 off-campus fight.
There's a burglary every 15 seconds in the United States -- and more than 6 million home break-ins every year.
Three Atlanta, Georgia, police officers were indicted Thursday -- two on felony murder charges -- in the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid on Thanksgiving eve.
The State Department is investigating a major computer break-in that targeted its headquarters and offices dealing with China and North Korea, department officials said Tuesday.
Thieves may have erased personal data on millions of veterans that was on a laptop they stole, the secretary of veterans affairs said Thursday.
Nothing kills all the extra sleep and relaxation you got on vacation like returning home to fill out a police report and meet with a claims adjuster.
Federal agents are trying to recover personal data on more than 26 million U.S. veterans after an apparently random burglary at the home of a computer analyst, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Monday.
Suntan lotion...check. Bermuda shorts...check. Now that you're packed and ready to hit the road, make sure your most valuable asset will remain safe and sound.
(FORTUNE Small Business) - Imagine for a moment that your local police set out to trap a few wily burglars but wound up clumsily ensnaring you and others -- the town's shopkeepers, factory owners, ...
The FBI on Thursday asked for help in apprehending members of the "Gate Cutters Jewelry Crew," which authorities say has made off with more than $5.1 million in jewelry and gems from 56 stores along the East Coast.
President Nixon and his aides suspected early on that FBI official W. Mark Felt was helping The Washington Post with its stories on the Watergate affair, according to transcripts of White House tapes.
Former FBI official Mark Felt "did the right thing" by leaking information to The Washington Post that helped lead to President Nixon resignation's in the Watergate scandal in 1974, former President Clinton said.
It turns out legendary Watergate source "Deep Throat" is a 91-year-old retiree living in Santa Rosa, California.
Initially dismissed by the White House as a "third-rate burglary," the June 17, 1972, break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters mushroomed into a constitutional crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
The legendary source "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal that brought down a president was identified Tuesday by Vanity Fair magazine and The Washington Post as W. Mark Felt.
With one click of the mouse, Karen Todd might have created a whole new class of cyber-sleuth.
A home burglar with a fondness for holiday tunes will have to sing them in prison.
Rocker Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon have appealed to the public to help them recover £2 million ($3.74 million) worth of jewelry stolen from their British country mansion.
Rock singer Sheryl Crow testified Monday in the trial of a man accused of stalking her, recalling an "eerie experience" as she prepared for a concert last year.
For Giovanni Conigliaro and his wife, Donna, the truth was way, way out there.
Summer is the hottest time of the year for burglary. And as summer vacation season gets underway more homes are left vacant than at any other time of the year.
Initially dismissed by the White House as a "third-rate burglary," the June 17, 1972, break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters mushroomed into a constitutional crisis that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
There's no getting around it. For most of us, our home is our single most valuable asset. But unlike traditional investments, which might appreciate even if you left them alone, a home requires reg...
Sam Dash, former chief counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee whose probe led to the resignation of President Nixon, died Saturday. He was 79.
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Here's the essential homeowners' check list of what you can do to reduce the insurance bill on your home.
On the day he was supposed to begin his senior year of high school, Martin Tankleff's life suddenly veered off course. Waking at 6:10 A.M. in his bedroom in Belle Terre, N.Y., a wealthy town on Lon...
Three girls had a brief reunion Friday with their mother after a harrowing kidnapping ordeal that began with four relatives' deaths and ended with a police chase and car crash with their accused abductor.
My buddy Mike is a tooth-flossing fanatic. An apostle of good dental hygiene, he thinks nothing of whipping out a yard of floss after a meal, even at a restaurant table. Of course, he eats alone a ...
In more innocent times, people often left their front doors unlocked. The odds of a burglar trying the front door on any given day were small, especially in rural communities.
So this is prison, thought Paul Whybrow, almost giddily, as he fell onto a ratty mattress infested with spiders. Another experience in life. Something to tell the grandkids. After all, here he was-...
Even as burglary rates have dropped to their lowest level in 30 years, Americans continue to spend more than ever on home-security systems. And after all, for the typical homeowner, it seems a simp...
This is it. We're in. There are things here I can now destroy. This is a good thing. The geek in me is happy. --Three hackers in San Antonio, 11:10 p.m.
ANY COMPUTER USER who reads the newspaper may think that transmitting sensitive financial data electronically is like strolling through Times Square flashing $100 bills. How, you may ask, can you s...
Brent Schlender first came to my attention in 1979, when I was a grizzled old journalist of 31, and he was a fresh-faced intern just out of the University of Kansas, where he had majored in--of all...
AS MAYHEM GOES, burglary and other types of theft are declining in the U.S. But not violent crime. With daily bullet-ridden news reports of the latest semiautomatic slaughter on the streets of big ...
Ask most Americans where burglary is the greatest threat and they'll name New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. And it's true: thanks to their huge populations, those cities have the largest numb...
Like most burglars, the thieves who ransacked Dan and Claire Hendrickson's Denver townhouse were in a hurry. They pulled out drawers, scattered clothes and broke furniture. ''We couldn't believe th...
Forget Cary Grant's elegant cat burglar in To Catch a Thief. The real burglar who raids your home is likely to be the criminal equivalent of a working stiff, as Derek T. Dingle's interview with one...
The only thing rising as fast as prices in the Soviet Union is the number of reported crimes. They rose 50% between 1985, the year Gorbachev took power, and the end of 1990, and are expected to con...
Like mallards, they are spotted easily every fall and spring, winging their way to better weather. These human migrants, dressed in jogging suits and other casual duds, jam lines at airports with o...
In 390 B.C., the honking of geese is said to have roused the Romans in time to save their city from the Gauls. Today's homeowners can summon legions of guards at fairly low cost with security syste...
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