Month: November 2010

LONDON—WikiLeaks says that its next release will be seven times the size of the Iraq war logs, some 400,000 secret documents that amounted to the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history. The secret-spilling website sent […] […]

MILWAUKEE—The prison escape of former Playboy Club bunny and Milwaukee police officer Laurie “Bambi” Bembenek popularized the phrase “Run Bambi Run” and seemed tailor-made for the TV movie it inspired. But despite the fame garnered […] […]

A violent weekend in Toronto has left one man dead and seven people recovering from gunshot wounds. The violence began with two separate shootings early Saturday morning. Shots rang out inside Peanut Plaza—a pub on […] […]

Arrests of pensioners are soaring as an influx of elderly inmates creates new problems for prisons. It is being dubbed the “grey crimewave” or the rise of the “Saga lout”. The prison system, already struggling […] […]

A study published in the US today finds St Louis overtook Camden, New Jersey, as America’s most dangerous city in 2009. The study released by CQ Press found St Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per […] […]