MEXICO CITY — The two most important criminal organizations in Mexico are engaged in all-out war, and the most spectacular battles are being fought for the cameras as the combatants pursue a strategy of intimidation and propaganda by dumping ever greater numbers of headless bodies in public view — the victims most likely innocents. Read full article > >

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Mexico’s two major crime cartels now at war

A record number of offenders sentenced for serious crimes had committed previous offences, according to figures for 2011.

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Reoffending rates at record level

VALLEJO, CALIF. — The first couple of years were ugly. After this working-class port city became the largest in America to declare bankruptcy in 2008 , crime and prostitution surged as the police force was thinned by 40 percent. Firehouses were shuttered, and funding for libraries and senior centers was slashed. Foreclosures multiplied and home prices plummeted. Read full article > >

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Vallejo, Calif., once bankrupt, is now a model for cities in an age of austerity

During the 17th and 18th centuries in England, people’s attitudes toward sexual behavior — and, of course, sexual misbehavior — changed dramatically. To a large degree, this revolution pivoted on the dynamic between private actions and public, civic and religious ideals. How much, or in what way, should society police the erotic life of individuals? Was adultery a crime? Were prostitutes the devil’s snare, or were they the pathetic victims of male callousness and exploitation? Should both sexes be held to the same moral standards? And exactly what standards should those be? Read full article > >

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Book World: ‘The Origins of Sex,’ an early awakening

A second member of Vincent Gray’s 2010 mayoral campaign was charged Wednesday in the wide-ranging federal investigation into the campaign’s alleged improprieties. Howard Brooks , 64, a consultant to the mayor’s campaign, was accused of making a false statement to FBI agents. The charge came in a “criminal information,” a type of document that may be filed only with a defendant’s consent and signals a plea deal is near. Read full article > >

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Howard Brooks becomes second Vincent Gray campaign worker charged in federal probe

A woman worried that her husband was unconscious called Montgomery County 911 but was transferred to a sleeping, snoring rescue dispatcher, according to an audio of the April call released on Tuesday. The breakdown was rectified in 38 seconds when the call was transferred to another dispatcher who was awake, Montgomery fire and rescue officials said. Read full article > >

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Snoring 911 dispatcher heard on call

“Killing Them Softly,” Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the George V. Higgins crime novel “Cogan’s Trade,” will have its gala premiere tonight at the Cannes Film Festival. The film screened this morning for the press, who were treated to a gritty, stylized and deeply cynical genre exercise in which Brad Pitt played hardened hit man Jackie Cogan. (Pitt last worked with Dominik on “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”) Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendolsohn co-star in a film that takes its inspiration from Martin Scorsese, murder ballads and America’s recent economic crisis which, as in the movie was brought on by greed and a fatal lack of self-control.   Read full article > >

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With robberies, kidnappings and other crimes rising, and the police appearing unwilling to go after criminals, some areas are seeing a rise in vigilante justice, with mobs sometimes killing suspects.

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Nick Clegg says social mobility says greater social mobility is needed to boost the UK’s economy – and that wasted talent is a “crime”.

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Social mobility ‘key for economy’

Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international war crimes probe, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka tells the BBC, a day after his release from jail.

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Sri Lanka ‘must face war probes’

A retiring chief constable says police could miss crime such as anti-social behaviour because of the impact of UK government cuts.

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Cuts ‘threaten crime response’

Lying in a hospital with a fractured eye socket, her dark hair shorn from brain surgery, Svetlana Guggenheim mustered a smile as her husband walked into the room. Seeing her grin, he brightened, too, as he stepped toward her bed. She reached out, caressing his right hand, and he stood beside her, leaning down. Read full article > >

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D.C. woman’s apparent attack full of mystery

An extradition request for a Kent man wanted in Portugal for a crime he was cleared of in 1995 is dropped.

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Portugal extradition bid dropped

Accused of killing two people in Mississippi.

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All federal government organizations are potentially at risk for workplace violence, not just those in high-crime areas or dealing with violent members of the public, according to an agency studying the issue. Read full article > >

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