After pleading guilty to a crack cocaine crime, a Providence man received three different prison sentences — ranging from about 13 1/2 years to about 19 1/2 years.

"Annie" knows what it's like to be violated. Annie, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, faced what may be every woman's worst nightmare: enduring a rape.

As the leading expert on cyber-crime in the United States, Parry Aftab will be sharing her expertise with parents and educators at the We Believe in Girls! Summit 2008, presented by the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council.

Inspired by the popular television drama CSI, investigators in the Netherlands have trialed methods used by forensic scientists at crime scenes to highlight infection risks in their hospital. Researchers at Deventer Hospital used Luminol, a chemical used

This debut novel by 29-year-old Londoner Tom Rob Smith has been garnering rave reviews, and no wonder. His social portraiture can be compared to that of Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky Park). Set in the Soviet Union in 1953, Child 44 as readily captures the para