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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and Wednesday, April 27th is Denim Day at the Santa Clarita Domestic Violence Center. Denim Day is a day when women the world over are obliged to wear denim jeans in support of victims of domestic violence. Denim Day was started by the organization Peace Over Violence as a reaction to…

Thanks to the Internet and its unmatched ability to spread information, ‘smoking’ alcohol is a new and burgeoning problem that may have serious and unintended consequences. In the latest effort to “have one’s cake and eat it too,” a growing number of would-be drinkers have turned to “inhaling” the vapors of alcohol in an effort…

There has been a drunken driving threshold change recommended in Washington this week that would change the legal blood alcohol limit of .08 to .05. In other countries, this lower limit has proven effective in reducing the amount of DUI related deaths. The new limit would be the equivalent of about 1 drink for a…

In Washington, two House Democrats are seeking to decriminalize marijuana and allow individual States to choose how they regulate it. Reps. Earl Blumenaur of Oregon and Jared Soto of Colorado sparked up some interesting conversation when they announced that they would be introducing two new bills to the House in coming weeks. One bill would end the…

A Modesto, CA. bail bondsman awaits trial on allegations of holding clients against their will in an effort to extort additional payments from them. As yet, no trial date has been set and Aleo John Pontillo must wait an additional two months to find out if he will stand trial or not. A preliminary hearing…

Not many thieves go for the gusto much these days, but on Monday suspected professionals netted $50 million dollars worth of merchandise during a diamond heist in Belgium. A Helvetic Airways jet was set for an 8pm takeoff Monday evening when two automobiles resembling police vehicles approached the plane with flashing lights and sounding their…

Four members of the University of Alabama’s football team the Crimson Tide were arrested and charged with robbery this past Monday. Tyler Hayes and D.J. Pettway were arrested and charged with robbery while Eddie Williams and Brent Calloway were charged with both robbery and credit card fraud. The arrests stem from a couple of incidents in…

It’s no secret that the American Justice System is not without its flaws. Sometimes, the innocent may be convicted and given hefty sentences for crimes they did not commit; perhaps, based on racial bias or circumstance. Alternatively, those who are ultimately guilty may receive light or even no sentence at all, due in part to…

The election season in 2012 didn’t bring too much change in the status quo as far as the White House and Congress are concerned. The States, on the other hand, have passed a slew of controversial new laws. One of the more important ones is the passing of Prop. 36, which eases the 3 strikes law…

According to 2011 crime statistics, for the first time in the past 20 years, violent crimes are on the rise in the USA. While there have been a slew of mass shootings that have taken place across the country, the most famous of which being the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, the U.S. Bureau of…

Last Wednesday, during the King’s pre-final game, the Staples Center was once more a prime location fans-behaving-badly when LAPD officers  arrested scalpers for grand theft both inside and out of the venue. Police said several fans unknowingly purchased fake tickets and one San Diego man even forked over $700 for a phony ticket.  Another reported buying…

Thirty-six years is an unusually long time to be ‘on the run’, especially if the FBI is after you. But that is just what happened to William Walter Asher III, who’s been running and hiding from justice since 1976. It all started in 1966 when Asher, then 20 years old, robbed a bar in San…

One of the concessions that George Zimmerman’s lawyers had to make in order to have him released from jail on bond was that he wear a sensitive GPS tracking device. With it, the police can track his exact whereabouts to within a few feet and make sure that Mr. Zimmerman does not stray far from where…