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Twice before he shot and killed 12 people in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Sept. 16, Aaron Alexis was arrested for discharging a firearm – once in his Ft. Worth apartment, and once outside his grandmother’s home in Seattle. Neither time was he prosecuted for a crime. Now, the question is why […]

News that sheriffs in Iowa are issuing firearm carry permits to legally blind citizens strikes some as absurd, but others see it as a fair reading of the law.

We’ve gotten better at preventing inmate suicide, but experts tell CBS that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was a particularly hard case.

The thousands of heavily armed law enforcement officers and scores of military-style tactical vehicles amassed around Boston Friday might have looked chaotic to many watching the hunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev unfold on television. But the man who heads the LAPD’s counter terrorism and special operations bureau says the city-wide lockdown makes

For 21-year-old Texas college student Anna Combrink, the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, the Canadian teen who hung herself after allegedly being raped and cyber-bullied, hit very close to home.

Fox News reporter Jana Winter is scheduled to attend a hearing Wednesday as part of an ongoing attempt to compel her to reveal the law enforcement source who told her that the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shooting had mailed a notebook of writings to a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado, Denver, before

Two days after he tweeted a controversial image comparing Trayvon Martin to an alleged baby-killer, Robert Zimmerman, the brother of the man facing murder charges in Martin’s death,  told CBS News’ Crimesider that the tweet was meant to “provoke discussion” about the difference between how Martin portrayed himself online, and the way he has been portrayed in

As she listens to the testimony of witness after witness who saw two Ohio teens allegedly rape a 16-year-old girl during a night of partying, Katie Hanna, the executive director of the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, says she can’t help but think one thing: “These kids weren’t clear what rape is.”