Archive for 'USA'
FBI confirms privacy violations
10 March 2008FBI has confessed to illegal tapping, tracking of bank translations and Internet-traffic of US citizens, informs AP.
FBI’s Director Robert Muller has noted that sources of the information are partially guilty in that - banks and telecommunication companies gave FBI more information, than was required. Muller earlier has already recognized, that FBI frequently violated the law […]
USA incarcerates more than any other country of the world
6 March 2008U.S. is recognized as the country, most actively using prisons for isolation of the citizens, informs Reuters referring to the research, prepared by Pew Center On The States.
According to these data, every 100-th adult citizen of the country is now in a prison or a colony. The general number of prisoners in the USA is […]
The teenager has died because of snowball
28 February 2008The neighbor has shot the teenager from Philadelphia because of a snowball which hit him, informs local TV-channel CBS 3.
16-years Tavin Ruthlege snowballed with friends in a court yard of the house in his birthday. One of the snowballs hit the neighbor, who then run in the house and returned with a pistol in hands, […]
American teenager has killed all the family
6 February 200815-years old boy from state Maryland has shot all the family because of the quarrel with his father, informs AP. On the night of Saturday Nicholas Waggoner Browning has shot his sleeping parents and two younger brothers, 11 and 13 years, and then has gone to visit friends.
Having spent a sleepover, Nicolas came back […]
Anti-criminal site of the EU became a source of viruses
25 January 2008The site created in the context of EU’s anti-criminal program, became a source of computer viruses. Internet - edition The Inquirer informs, that address www.ctose.org should have contained the resource with the information on criminal investigations. However now users see messages on various services, from reservation of hotel rooms to insurance, and at an attempt […]
US fears terrorism threat from Europe
18 January 2008Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has declared, that Europe can shortly turn into “base for terrorists” and the most serious threat for US safety can come therefrom, transfers Reuters.
In the interview to BBC’s World News America he has noted about the recently growth of terrorism in Europe.
In support […]
Death penalty is going to be recalled in New Jersey: people are against
13 December 2007The Senate of American State of New Jersey has voted for a cancellation of death penalty which will be replaced with life imprisonment, for especially dangerous criminals - without the right of early release.
Thus, New Jersey becomes the first for the last 30 years American State which will abolish death penalty, informs The Independent.
For […]
Shooting in the USA: the unknown person has opened fire on missionaries
11 December 2007An armed person has opened shooting on Christian missionaries in Denver (State Colorado) on Sunday, December, 9, having wounded, at least, four persons.
According to AP, incident has taken place at 00:30 local time in a building of the organization Youth with the Mission where there were about 50 people.
The local police inform that the […]
The most criminal city of the USA
22 November 2007According to the research of publishing group Congressional Quarterly Inc., Detroit, state Michigan, is the most dangerous and criminal the city in the USA.
Research is based on the FBI’s statistical data on a crime rate in 378 cities of the country with the population more than 75 thousands. Authors compared quantity of murders, rapes, robberies, […]
Police have caught “Robin Hood� in the American bank: he gave credits to poor
15 November 2007Police have caught just brought to light “Robin Hood” who at his own discretion gave credits to needy, drawing out from another’s accounts.
The court of Illinois State has sentenced the manager of a bank almost to 3,5 years of imprisonment, having find him guilty of financial frauds. Newly appeared “Robin Hood” transferred money at his […]
