Several high-profile former missing persons have been in the news lately, including Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard. Earlier this week, Elizabeth Smart’s abductor, Brian David Mitchell, was found competent to stand trial in a Utah court. His trial is expected ...
As anyone who doesn’t live under a rock knows by now, Tiger Woods is sorry for stuff. He never explicitly stated just what, exactly, he was offering his “profound apology” for, though presumably it had something to do with the ...
A new computer simulation predicts hot spots where police intervention will not simply displace crime, but rather erase it completely.
Smoke rises from the Austin, Tex. IRS offices after the attack (Alberto Martinez/Associated Press). On Thursday morning, a small plane crashed into the side of a building in Austin, Texas. But this was no accident. Joseph Stack, a 53-year-old software ...
Everybody dies, but even after celebrities shuffle off this mortal coil their deaths get the Hollywood gloss. The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, didn’t die of a drug overdose; he was killed. This morning, one of Jackson’s physicians, Dr. Conrad ...
Gang members are increasingly taking to Twitter and Facebook, inadvertently providing invaluable information to law enforcement.
When it comes to virtual communities, the biggest orchards often have the most bad apples.
State-sponsored hackers are a growing threat to power plants, water systems and other key public utilities around the world.
