Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Local police in Ohio who are accused of mishandling a rape case involving high school football players have been bombarded with cyber attacks, the Associated Press reports. Now the FBI is trying to determine who posted a death threat to the local sheriff on Facebook and an email that shut down the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and U.S. Capitol Police are investigating rape and death against U.S. Rep. Todd Akins, his staff and his family, Reuters reports. A spokesman for the Missouri Republican confirmed the investigation. “There have been threats of rape of staff, (of) the congressman’s family and the congressman himself, and suggestions that people…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities have linked a 1996 sexual assault to a serial rapist accused of attacking women in Washington D.C. and Maryland, the Associated Press reports. The FBI and local police believe the man attacked nine other women between 1991 and 1998, including a 28-year-old biochemist who was murdered with a heavy rock. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Crime rates in 2011 fell to near historic lows, according to the FBI. Preliminary figures released Monday show violent crimes and property crimes reported dropped in 2011 compared to the previous year. Specifically, violent crimes fell 4 percent and property crimes dropped 0.8 percent. In the violent crime offenses category, murder…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It’s been more than a month since the FBI began publicly seeking a man dubbed “The Potomac River Rapist”, who suspected in a series of sexual assaults and a slaying in the D.C. area, reports the Associated Press, and, despite “multiple good leads and tips,” the bureau has not identified a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com For 85 years, the official definition of rape did not include men. That’s changing. The FBI is changing that definition to include sexual assault of males, USA Today reports. “Under the current definition, established 85 years ago, many of the sex crimes alleged in the ongoing prosecution of former Penn State…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crimes and property crimes in the U.S. dropped during January to June of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI’s just-released Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report. The report showed that overall, violent crimes were down 6.4 percent in that period, and property crimes dipped…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The only question is: What took so long? After much deliberation and consideration, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Advisory Board voted Tuesday to update the agency’s narrow definition of rape for its Uniform Crime Report, a definition that hadn’t been updated since 1929, Huffington Post reports. The crime report is often used…
