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Feel the force of my fist, Who fan
Star Wars and Dr Who fans have finally settled the age-old question of who’s the hardest. It turns out neither, although both are equally sad
YOUTH: The Return of the Gang
Among the phenomena of the 1950s was the rise of the violent urban gangs with their freewheeling, sometimes lethal “rumbles” in protection of their “turf.” By the mid-'60s, gangs seemed to be on the wane, their vital energies either drawn into the protest movements of that era or sapped by the burgeoning drug culture.
Nation: The Flick of Violence
A gang film called The Warriors attracts off-screen rumblesStaring from the poster, they looked like a nightmare of what might be, that terrifying day when the street gangs take over the city, any city.
Sweeping injunction targets ‘commuter drug dealers’ in downtown L.A.
Sweeping injunction targets ‘commuter drug dealers’ in downtown L.A. In an aggressive new tack in the city’s crackdown on drug-dealing on skid row, L.A. prosecutors on Wednesday announced a criminal injunction targeting “commuter dealers” who come into downtown from other parts of town to sell their goods. The L.A. City Attorney’s Office said this is […]
Rio fortifies streets after deadly shootout
Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday after a bloody confrontation between rival drug gangs and authorities that killed 14 over the weekend, including two police officers.
12 dead in Brazil drug battle
Twelve people, including two police officers, were killed Saturday in a gun battle between two rival drug gangs in a slum in northern Rio de Janeiro, a state spokesman said.
Drug-fueled gang wars shake Vancouver
When Canadian cocaine smuggler Charles Lai was being sentenced in a Seattle federal courtroom last month, the judge sending him to prison for 13 years offered a small item of good news. At least behind bars, Judge James Robart said, drug smuggler Lai would not become another fatality in Vancouver’s gang wars
The Bloody Border of Mexico’s Drug Wars
Pedro Rojas is the sort of wealthy Mexican who’s usually in control of his world.