In Chicago’s Crisis of Violence, Some Signs of Hope

By MONICA DAVEY May 30, 2017 CHICAGO — Chicago officials took a far more aggressive approach this year to Memorial Day weekend, which often marks the start of the worst season for street violence, in an effort to control the shootings that brought more...

Eight Die, Including Police Officer, in Mississippi Shootings

By DANIEL VICTOR May 28, 2017 A man in Mississippi killed eight people, including a police officer, in a shooting spree that spanned three locations on Saturday and Sunday, the local authorities said. The police said Willie C. Godbolt, 35, of Bogue Chitto,...

Three Men Stood Up to Anti-Muslim Attack. Two Paid With Their Lives.

By DANIEL VICTOR May 28, 2017 An Army veteran, a recent college graduate and a student who once won a poetry contest by condemning prejudice stirred up by the Sept. 11 attacks intervened as a man screamed anti-Muslim insults at two women in Portland, Ore.,...

Lee Boyd Malvo, Serving Life in Beltway Sniper Case, Must Be Resentenced, Judge Says

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG May 26, 2017 WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ruled that a man who terrorized this region 15 years ago as the so-called Beltway Sniper must be resentenced, because the life sentences imposed when he was a...

Fatal Stabbing of Black Student in Maryland Investigated as a Hate Crime

By MATT STEVENS May 22, 2017 A white student at the University of Maryland was charged on Sunday in the fatal stabbing a black college student in what the authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime. Officials on Sunday charged the suspect, Sean...