The killing of nursing student Laken Riley has become an issue in the 2024 presidential campaign, with former President Donald Trump blaming President Joe Biden and his border policies for the Augusta University student's fatal beating, and suggesting migrants are committing crimes more often than U.S. citizens even though the evidence does not back up those claims.
Republicans in Georgia are demanding that President Biden take action after a man who entered the country illegally was arrested for the killing of a woman on the University of Georgia Athens campus last week. But what does the president have the power to do at the border?
One of the most significant increases in crime statistics cited by the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office for last year was the skyrocketing value of seized drugs.
The suspects were arrested after deputies served search warrants on Sunday. "We are confident that this appears to be a dispute over marijuana," a sheriff's department spokesperson said.
Collaboration between the city of Atlanta and the Georgia General Assembly played a key role in driving down crime rates across the city and especially in Buckhead during 2023, according to Mayor Andre Dickens and Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns.
Police in Joliet, Ill., said Monday night that 23-year-old Romeo Nance was located by U.S. marshals near Natalia, Texas, and that after a confrontation Nance shot himself.
César Suárez was also in charge of the Metastasis case involving an Ecuadorian drug lord who allegedly received favorable treatment from judges, prosecutors, police officers and high officials.
Experts have warned that the South African police are losing the battle against crime and that has led those citizens who can afford it, to turn to a booming private security industry.
One person is dead and another wounded after an argument led to a shooting near the Georgia State University campus in downtown Atlanta early Friday morning.
A $200,000 reward is being offered for information on arson suspects protesting the construction of the city’s public safety training center, also known as “Cop City.”
Cavalcante was charged with felony counts of burglary, criminal trespass, theft and possession of a firearm as well as a number of misdemeanor charges including theft and receiving stolen property.
After four people were shot near a downtown RaceTrac gas station early Sunday morning, a town hall presentation by Georgia State University leadership Monday skipped ahead, unveiling campus improvement plan.
NPR's Scott Simon visited the Inn of Chicago this week, where migrants are now being housed. The building is the same one his father died in 55 years ago.
