Crime articles
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Man charged with multiple crimes after domestic disturbance
A man has been arrested and charged with malicious wounding and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony after West Virginia State Police troopers were called to a domestic disturbance Monday.
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Editorial: The Supreme Court cannot allow homelessness to be a crime
If you are homeless and have nowhere to go — neither a temporary shelter bed nor a permanent home — can you be fined or, worse, jailed for sleeping on a sidewalk? Or is that cruel and unusual punishment? That’s the question that the Supreme Court wrestled with Monday when it heard oral arguments in the case of Grants Pass vs. Johnson regarding the Oregon city's ordinance allowing police to fine or jail homeless people for sleeping outside. A federal district court ruled that the law violated the...
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Albuquerque woman sentenced for meth trafficking crime
The sentence is related to a drug trafficking crime.