<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Gang Violence: News &amp; Videos about Gang Violence - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Gang_Violence</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Gang Violence from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:00:01 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Gang Violence: News &amp; Videos about Gang Violence - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Gang_Violence</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Gang Violence from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Alleged gang members in Maryland indicted on racketering charges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/20/maryland.gang.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/20/maryland.gang.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Federal authorities have charged 19 alleged members of the violent street gang Latin Kings in raids in Maryland, and arrested those not already jailed on other charges, officials announced Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI: Alleged hit man changes appearance</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/justice.texas.fbi.ten.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/justice.texas.fbi.ten.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Eduardo Ravelo is described as a "ruthless killer" who has gone to great lengths to avoid law enforcement while contributing to the bloodshed that terrorizes the border between Texas and Mexico.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gang member joins FBI's Most Wanted</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/california.fbi.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/24/california.fbi.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Joe Saenz rubbed his hands together and smiled as he walked up to a Los Angeles County, California, home.</description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Alleged hit man changes appearance, FBI says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/20/texas.fbi.ten.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/20/texas.fbi.ten.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Eduardo Ravelo is described as a "ruthless killer" who has gone to great lengths to avoid law enforcement while contributing to the bloodshed that terrorizes the border between Texas and Mexico.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gang member latest to join FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/19/california.fbi.ten.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/19/california.fbi.ten.most.wanted/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Joe Saenz rubbed his hands together and smiled as he walked up to a Los Angeles County, California, home.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two killed in attack on Guatemalan police</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/19/guatemala.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/19/guatemala.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lethal assaults on police and prison guards in Guatemala continued over the weekend, with an attack on a national police patrol that killed two officers and left one wounded, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Power vacuum fuels vicious drug war</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/13/colombia.drug.war/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/13/colombia.drug.war/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A young man with tattoos covering one arm rolls hundreds of marijuana joints in the half-light of a shack, perched on a hillside in a Medellin slum.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pushcart classes help break gang chain</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/05/heroes.efren.penaflorida/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/03/05/heroes.efren.penaflorida/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>At 16, Rhandolf Fajardo reflects on his former life as a gang member.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Beaten teen had 'different attitude' than other boys, activist says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/29/chicago.teen.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/29/chicago.teen.profile/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Derrion Albert was different from the other boys in the often violent and tense neighborhood of Roseland in South Side Chicago.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gang members, police officer arrested in filmmaker's slaying</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/10/elsalvador.poveda/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/10/elsalvador.poveda/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Six men, including a police officer, are facing homicide charges in last week's killing of French filmmaker and photographer Christian Poveda in El Salvador, the attorney general's office said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Slayings of 4 Guatemalan prison officials blamed on drug trade</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/08/guatemala.officials.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/08/guatemala.officials.killed/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>To hear some Guatemalans tell it, three coordinated attacks that killed four prison officials in five hours Monday hardly raised anyone's pulse.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Documentary filmmaker shot dead in El Salvador</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/03/el.salvador.filmmaker/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/03/el.salvador.filmmaker/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A French filmmaker who recently finished a documentary about a violent street gang in El Salvador was found shot dead in the town of Tonacatepeque, about 10 miles northeast of the capital city of San Salvador, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Sin Nombre' unmasks Mexican gang culture</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/19/sin.nombre/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/19/sin.nombre/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>If riding on top of a Mexican freight train while bandits lie in wait, or inviting real-life gang members to improvise street battles doesn't sound like the wisest approach to making your first feature film, try telling Cary Fukunaga.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drug-fueled gang wars shake Vancouver</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/09/vancouver.drug.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/07/09/vancouver.drug.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When Canadian cocaine smuggler Charles Lai was being sentenced in a Seattle federal courtroom last month, the judge sending him to prison for 13 years offered a small item of good news.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Children dying in Chicago a 'national catastrophe'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/25/what.matters.chicago.killings/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/25/what.matters.chicago.killings/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two weeks ago, 3-year-old Jaquan Reed was fatally shot on Chicago, Illinois', West Side.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-gang members unite: 'You don't have to kill your neighbors'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/05/20/reformed.gangs/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/05/20/reformed.gangs/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Rudolpho Marquez, Richard Reyes and Cesar Cruz make for a most unlikely car pool. They are all former gang rivals who have spent hard time in prison. But they've put the past behind them for common goals: jobs and their families.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 20:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Misery breeds violence' in Haiti's seaside slum</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/11/icrc.haiti.red.cross/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/11/icrc.haiti.red.cross/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Roudeline Lamy was 23 when she was shot in the stomach. The impact of the bullet sent the small baby she was holding tumbling to the ground.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 08:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>20 alleged Hispanic gang members indicted in Colorado</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/24/colorado.gang.indictments/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/24/colorado.gang.indictments/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Twenty alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation's largest and most violent have been indicted in Colorado on drug and firearm charges, authorities said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>CNN Classroom Edition: Homicide in Hollenbeck</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews/09/06/cnnce.homicide.hollenbeck/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews/09/06/cnnce.homicide.hollenbeck/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Record the CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Homicide in Hollenbeck when it airs commercial-free on Monday, December 29, 2008 from 4:00-- 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN. (A short feature begins at 4:00 a.m. and precedes the program.)</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mongols Motorcycle Gang Arrested in Federal Sweep</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1852571,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1852571,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Dozens of burly, tattoo-covered members of the Mongol motorcycle gang were arrested Tuesday by federal agents in six states following a three-year investigation in which undercover agents infiltrated the group</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>1,300 Gang Members Arrested in Past 4 Months</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1846292,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1846292,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Federal officials arrested more than 300 members of a previously lesser known criminal gang during a summer crackdown, twice as many as last year, and arrested nearly 1,500 gang members nationwide, immigration authorities said Wednesday</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kids' lives are nightmares in unstable nations, UNICEF reports</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/21/unicef/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/21/unicef/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than 50 children have been abducted in Haiti since the beginning of the year, adding to a trend of kidnappings in countries affected by violence, according to a United Nations Children's Fund report.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Suspected gang members arrested in North Carolina</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/24/msthirteen.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/24/msthirteen.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Twenty-six alleged members of a Hispanic gang believed to be one of the nation's largest and most violent were indicted in North Carolina and charged with offenses including drug activity, racketeering, assault and murder, according to federal court documents.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>26 Gang Members Indicted in Drug Ring</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1817598,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1817598,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A federal grand jury indicted 26 reputed members of the international gang, MS-13, accused of running a cross-border drug ring</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mexican drug cartel trots out boy as warning to cops</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/26/btsc.mexico.drugs/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/26/btsc.mexico.drugs/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The boy looked to be about 12 or 13 years old. Chubby, he struggled a bit with his bicycle as he rode to where we stood. He had a slight smirk as he played a tape that blared music from speakers tied to his bike.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 20:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>After the Blitz, Hizballah Runs Beirut</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739098,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739098,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>With limited resistance, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militants have stormed into control, leaving a mess for Israel, the U.S., and -- if history is any measure -- Hizballah, too</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dad of slain teen: Chicago violence 'out of control'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/29/chicago.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/29/chicago.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Blair Holt wanted his mother to have a pendant for Mother's Day. His father, Ronald Holt, was purchasing the gift when his cell phone rang: Blair, 16, had just been shot on a Chicago bus. </description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rash of Violence in Chicago Kills 32</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1732608,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1732608,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>An epidemic of gunfire rattled the city during the weekend, with at least 32 people shot and six killed</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Football star, 17, slain before he could answer gang</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/10/gang.killing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/10/gang.killing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Jamiel Shaw was just three doors from his house on March 2. His father told the 17-year-old high school football star to be home before dark. That is exactly what he was trying to do when, just before dusk, gunshots rang out.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Violence spreading in Kenya, Red Cross official says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/28/kenya.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/28/kenya.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The violence plaguing western Kenya's Rift Valley spread to the country's Western Province Monday, according to an official with the International Committee of the Red Cross.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:17:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kenya president narrows poll gap</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/29/kenya.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/29/kenya.vote/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The result of Kenya's election looked set for a dramatic climax as the country's electoral commission said Saturday that incumbent president Mwai Kibaki was closing the gap on opposition leader Raila Odinga.</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tattoo parlor run by cops busts gangs</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/16/gang.bust/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/16/gang.bust/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Walking into the Colur Tyme Tattoo Parlor is a lot like walking into a head shop. One wall is lined with gang monikers and symbols, the other with bongs for smoking marijuana and other drugs -- one even shaped like a skull.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:43:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds target violent gangs, arrest 1,300</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/09/gang.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/09/gang.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Federal agents have arrested more than 1,300 suspected gang members, including 343 with violent criminal histories, in the past three months, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Yankees denounce caps linked to gang symbols</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/08/24/gang.caps.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/08/24/gang.caps.ap/index.html</guid><description>A lineup of team logo baseball caps denounced as tailor-made for gang members was ordered removed from store shelves by its manufacturer Friday after complaints from baseball officials.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Everywhere they look, Broncos see reminders Darrent Williams</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/nfl/specials/preview/2007/08/17/bc.fbn.rememberingwilli.ap/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/nfl/specials/preview/2007/08/17/bc.fbn.rememberingwilli.ap/index.html</guid><description>For good or bad, the reminders of Darrent Williams are everywhere.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Curfew in Niger Delta after deadly battles</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/17/nigeria.violence.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/08/17/nigeria.violence.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew Friday in the heart of Nigeria's oil region, where security forces and gang members have clashed in battles that left dozens feared dead.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Illegal alien gang members</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/05/dobbs.illegal/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/05/dobbs.illegal/index.html</guid><description>These are some of the facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting.    ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) conducted a threat assessment survey of all field offices:     "The results of the assessment showed that most major metropolitan areas were experiencing a surge in gang activity. Additionally, the survey showed that membership of these violent transnational gangs was comprised largely of foreign-born nationals."     Source: ICE "Operation Community Shield" Fact Sheet June 6, 2007     &amp;#8226; Gang members in the United States: 800,000  &amp;#8226; State and local police in the United States: 708,000    Source: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California); hearing testimony June 5, 2007</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The long shot</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/03/12/tyrone.lewis/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/the_bonus/03/12/tyrone.lewis/index.html</guid><description>Every time Tyrone Lewis stopped walking, they stopped. Every step he took, they took with him. The uniformed police officers escorting him at a mid-January game between Niagara and Rider tried to be discreet, but the scene still reminded the 6-foot freshman guard of his painful ordeal last summer, when he grabbed national headlines.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A mayor cracks down on gangs</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/06/psyk.villaraigosa/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/06/psyk.villaraigosa/index.html</guid><description>Los Angeles, California, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa introduced in February an aggressive initiative to combat the surge of gang-related violence in his city.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ATF agent says he faked murder to get into Hells Angels</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/05/dobyns.hellsangels/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/05/dobyns.hellsangels/index.html</guid><description>In a parched, secluded desert, a brutal killing is caught on videotape. A member of the feared and violent Mongol motorcycle gang is shot in the head at close range. His body is dumped in a shallow grave.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Overcoming the odds</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/don_banks/02/01/rashied.davis/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/don_banks/02/01/rashied.davis/index.html</guid><description>MIAMI -- Be it player, coach or team executive, everybody who gets to the Super Bowl has his own story of how he traveled to the NFL's biggest game. No two roads are quite the same.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Brazil may send troops to quell Rio gangs</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/02/brazil.violence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/01/02/brazil.violence/index.html</guid><description>Rio de Janeiro's new government said it was meeting Tuesday with Brazil's top security official to discuss its request for federal troops to combat a wave of gang violence that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called "terrorism."</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>East Timor descends into chaos</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/29/timor.australia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/05/29/timor.australia/index.html</guid><description>The number of dead in the latest wave of violence in East Timor has risen to at least 20, with more than 50 people wounded, hospital officials in the capital Dili said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 04:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Governor: Brazil gang rampage over</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/15/brazil.violenceover/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/15/brazil.violenceover/index.html</guid><description>Sao Paulo state Gov. Claudio Lembo announced late Monday that all prison rebellions across the state have ended and 200 prison guards held hostage over the weekend have been freed without injury.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 02:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Brazil gang attacks leave 52 dead</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/14/brazil.attacks/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/14/brazil.attacks/index.html</guid><description>A criminal gang in Brazil launched a wave of attacks against police stations in greater Sao Paulo and uprisings in 64 jails across Sao Paulo state at the weekend, resulting in at least 52 deaths, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 11:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Feds target gangs in crackdown</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/10/gang.arrests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/10/gang.arrests/index.html</guid><description>The Bloods, Crips, Disciples and an increasingly popular street gang known as MS-13 were among the gangs targeted in a Department of Homeland Security operation over the past two weeks that yielded 375 arrests of wanted members in 23 states, the department announced Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Warden: Williams frustrated at end</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/13/williams.execution/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/13/williams.execution/index.html</guid><description>Death did not come quickly for Stanley Tookie Williams, the co-founder of the violent Crips street gang who was executed by lethal injection early Tuesday for the 1979 robbery murders of four people in Los Angeles.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:46:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: Tookie Williams to be put to death</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/12/feedback.tookiewilliams/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/12/feedback.tookiewilliams/index.html</guid><description>Death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang who has worked from behind bars to quell gang violence, has asked California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare his life. The request was denied and he will be put to death shortly after midnight.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Supreme Court rejects Williams' plea</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/12/williams.execution/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/12/williams.execution/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay the execution Monday of convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, clearing the way for him to die by injection shortly after midnight.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Your e-mails: Clemency for Tookie Williams?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/11/feedback.tookiewilliams/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/11/feedback.tookiewilliams/index.html</guid><description>Death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang who has worked from behind bars to quell gang violence, has asked California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare his life.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Clemency countdown continues for Crips creator</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/08/tookie.clemency/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/08/tookie.clemency/index.html</guid><description>With his execution scheduled for Tuesday, his attorneys have made their final appeals. Now, Crips co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams must wait on death row to find out if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will spare his life.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2005 22:31:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>State's high court won't spare Williams</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/30/williams.execution/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/11/30/williams.execution/index.html</guid><description>California's Supreme Court Wednesday refused to stop the execution of convicted killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the founder of the Crips street gang who became an anti-gang crusader while on Death Row, a court spokeswoman said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:27:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. peacekeeper in Haiti killed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/10/24/un.peacekeeper.killed/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/10/24/un.peacekeeper.killed/index.html</guid><description>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A U.N. peacekeeper who was shot while on patrol near the volatile Cite Soleil slum of Haiti's capital died Monday at a hospital in neighboring Dominican Republic, a spokesman for the United Nations said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Massive international sting nets 660 </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/08/international.arrests/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/08/international.arrests/index.html</guid><description>A massive international sweep targeting violent MS-13 gang members in the United States and Central America produced about 660 arrests, law enforcement authorities announced Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2005 21:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Guatemala prison riots kill dozens</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/15/guatemala.prison.riots/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/15/guatemala.prison.riots/index.html</guid><description>Inmates from rival gangs clashed in three Guatemalan prisons Monday, leaving at least 31 prisoners dead before police restored order, the country's interior minister said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two convicted, two acquitted in suburban Virginia street gang trial</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/17/ms13.trial.verdicts/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/17/ms13.trial.verdicts/index.html</guid><description>A federal jury in Virginia Tuesday convicted two members of a violent street gang in the slaying of a female gang member who had been a government informant.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2005 19:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Anarchy grips Haitian capital</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/27/haiti.revolt/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/27/haiti.revolt/index.html</guid><description>With rebels claiming to have surrounded the Haitian capital -- where President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was holed up and vowing to stay -- armed gangs have taken to the streets, leaving deaths, looting and fires in their wake.</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:02:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Aristide opposition takes over Haitian city</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/05/haiti.unrest/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/05/haiti.unrest/index.html</guid><description>At least five people were killed and 20 wounded when a group opposed to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took over one of the country's largest cities Thursday, an opposition leader said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2004 02:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>THE HELLS ANGELS' DEVILISH BUSINESS While many Angels and other outlaw bikers are just rowdies, a disturbing number are involved</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/30/77184/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/11/30/77184/index.htm</guid><description>FIRST you hear the pulsating thunder of three dozen unmuffled Harley-Davidsons snaking around the bend. Then you see them. An outlaw motorcycle gang, maybe Pagan's or even Hells Angels, overlords o...</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>'I'M THE LUCKIEST PERSON I EVER MET' Nine successful             men and women tell how they managed to overcome often          </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76724/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76724/index.htm</guid><description>Carl Bernard, a senior at Connecticut College who considers himself so lucky, credits a teacher and a businessman for his change from a ninth-grade dropout to a campus leader. For many of these sur...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TEENAGERS TALK ABOUT LIFE Violence, hopes, cops,             racism, drugs, dreams, school, family, neighborhood -- nine        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76730/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76730/index.htm</guid><description>WHAT HAPPENS when you ask seventh- and eighth-graders, awash in the formative years, what their life is like? They tell you. Sometimes they tell you about gangs and guns, or a dad that does drugs. ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>KIDS ARE KILLING, DYING, BLEEDING America is in the             midst of a raging epidemic of juvenile homicide, suicide,       </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76729/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/08/10/76729/index.htm</guid><description>THE CHILDREN who killed 12-year-old Amanda Simpson seared a hole in the American Dream. Just after midnight on April 28, 1991, while Amanda and her mother were sleeping, a group of youngsters broke...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The mentionables, pirates with cellular phones, the price of politicians, and other matters. GREAT MOMENTS IN FREE ASSEMBLY</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/27/75991/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/01/27/75991/index.htm</guid><description>LOS ANGELES -- The American Civil Liberties Union, in a clash with local and national efforts to curb rampant gang activity, has challenged the constitutionality of an ordinance banning gang member...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 1992 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>RUNNING FROM RACISTS Fleeing threats of violence, a black family in Phoenix sinks its savings into an expensive move.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/07/01/86658/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1991/07/01/86658/index.htm</guid><description>Joann Long thought it was a prank at first. At 2:45 p.m. on Dec. 18, 1989, her son Ray Jr. -- then a 14-year-old 10th-grader at Barry Goldwater High in Phoenix -- came pounding on the back door, sh...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>BEING PRINCIPAL FOR A DAY At a Los Angeles high             school, Arco's president met with gangs and teacher             comp</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/05/28/73587/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/05/28/73587/index.htm</guid><description>ON THIS OVERCAST April morning, Marvin Starer, 58, the regular principal of Manual Arts High School in gritty south central Los Angeles, is wearing thick, sky-blue socks and rubber-soled walking sh...</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW WE CAN WIN THE WAR ON POVERTY Around the country, points of light are turning on, and some principles for success are showin</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/10/71820/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/10/71820/index.htm</guid><description>IT IS OF NO SMALL significance that poverty is suddenly returning to the forefront of the American consciousness. Perhaps it is mostly a comment on the immense power of our media-age Presidents to ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>