Posts Tagged Law and order

Albuquerque police investigate drive-by shooting

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police are searching for leads in a drive-by shooting that landed a UNM Cancer Center executive in the hospital.

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Trial to begin Monday in Las Cruces for 3 killings

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A man stands trial Monday in Las Cruces in the 2010 killings of a New Mexico couple and their business partner from California.

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Venezuela’s military enters high-crime slums

In this May 14, 2013 photo, a National Guard soldier frisks a man outside his car at a checkpoint that is part of the "Secure Homeland" initiative in Petare, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Caracas, Venezuela. Since Monday, this scene is playing out day and night at dozens of military checkpoints set up here in the socialist government's latest attempt to control the oil-rich country’s pandemic of violence.  (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

PETARE, Venezuela (AP) — Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas.

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AP IMPACT: Honduran criminals missing after arrest

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism. In fact, Brownfield was speaking of the danger of communities carrying out vigilantism.

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Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons

This April 24, 2013 photo released by Human Rights Watch shows a torture device abandoned on the floor of a State Security building, in Raqqa, Syria. Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. (AP Photo/Bryan Denton for Human Rights Watch)

BEIRUT (AP) — Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other evidence that detainees were abused there, Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday.

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