There can be few hells worse than spending years in penitentiary for a crime of which you are innocent. It must be like being buried alive. Any scream bounced off the bars must be nothing compared to the torment raging inside the head.

I’ll grant you that skateboarders are not the quietest people you can have in the neighborhood. But do they really make enough noise to disturb the dead? Some folks on the North Coast think so. They are objecting to a proposed skateboard park at the Ca

NAGASAKI (Kyodo) The Nagasaki District Court sentenced a 60-year-old gangster to death Monday for assassinating Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito during an election campaign last year. Tetsuya Shiroo shot Ito, 61, twice with a pistol on the evening of April 17, 20

For much of Nevada Barr's 14th Anna Pigeon mystery, Winter Study, it's not a question of who-, why- or howdunit, but of whether a crime has been committed at all.

I RECEIVED mail from several people relating to last week’s article ‘Crime and Punishment’. Among them was one Mr Tan whose house was broken into recently and he asked plaintively: “What is happening to our society? Why are these burglars or robbe