Crime

Kakamega- based judge Said Juma Chitembwe was on Tuesday arraigned in court on charges of fraud. Read More

Six forensics workers in Mexico have been suspended for altering a crime scene in which slain drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva was photographed with bloodstained money laid out across his bullet-ridden body, an official said Tuesday. Read More

Morris Lasker, the judge who sentenced Ivan Boesky to prison in a 1980s insider trading scandal and helped eliminate horrid conditions in New York City jails, has died. Read More

A computer hacker who helped orchestrate the theft of tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers from major retailers in one of the largest such thefts in U.S. history pleaded guilty Tuesday in the last of three cases brought by federal prosecutors. Read More

(CBS) In November 2007, Chris and Debra Hall, along with their children, Tyler and Divinia, were driving back to California from Mexico, when they saw police lights gaining on them. Read More

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld former state insurance regulator Joe Ruiz's corruption convictions. Read More

The adopted son and daughter of a prominent Argentine businesswoman gave DNA samples Tuesday to help determine whether their biological parents were political prisoners killed during the country's "dirty war," the family's lawyer said. Read More

Police and fire officials are looking to speak to a man who witnessed a fatal Brooklyn fire believed to be arson. Read More

San Francisco appears on track in 2009 to have the lowest murder rate in nearly 50 years. Read More

Note: In 2009, 42 people have lost their lives to violence in the city of Dayton. Read More