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Homicide rates in 20 major American cities in June jumped 37 percent from the previous month, compared with a six percent increase over the same period in 2019, University of Missouri criminologist Richard Rosenfeld told the New York Times on Tuesday. The unusual spike in homicides and aggravated assault comes as overall crime in most …

Looters ransacked shops in downtown Chicago early on Monday morning following a shootout between a suspect and police officers. According to police, officers were called to the Englewood neighborhood on Sunday afternoon after receiving reports of a man with a gun. Officers found a suspect who matched the description, however the suspect attempted to flee …

Move over, Villanelle — Freddy Lane is the new charming murderer in town. Freddy (Hermione Corfield) is a twentysomething blonde with a shadowy past who quotes philosophers and works as a phone-sex operator. She’s also a killer, and in “We Hunt Together” — a six-episode British crime drama premiering Sunday on Showtime (10 p.m.) — …

More than two dozen women have come forward with allegations of sexual assault and rape against porn star Ron Jeremy, according to a new report. The wave of accusers contacted prosecutors in Los Angeles shortly after the once-revered king of smut was charged with raping and sexually assaulting four women, the Los Angeles Times said. …

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed an executive order Wednesday that automatically reinstates the voting rights of some convicted felons. The order will permit some Iowans who have completed their felony sentences — excluding those convicted for homicide — to automatically be able to vote in elections without having to petition the governor’s office individually. “When …

Homicides and gun violence have spiked in major cities around the country since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, spurred by an economic recession and unrest that arose from protests against police brutality. Across the nation’s 50 largest cities, homicides are up 24 percent this year, totaling 3,612 so far, according to a Wall Street Journal …

Chad Johnson is only “moderately pleased” with the recent outcome of his domestic violence case because he claims he was “falsely” accused. On July 30, the “Bachelorette” alum struck a plea deal that requires him to be on probation for 36 months following his February arrest for robbery and domestic violence. The 32-year-old exclusively told …

Leslie Chilcott’s docuseries, “Helter Skelter: An American Myth,” adds some new wrinkles to the exhaustively chronicled story of Charles Manson, his “family” of followers and the horror they unleashed on LA in August of 1969. And that’s saying a lot, since you’d think, by now, that we know everything there is to know about the …

Chad Johnson has accepted a plea deal in his domestic violence case, which orders the “Bachelorette” alum to attend Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and domestic violence counseling meetings, Page Six has learned. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office told us on Monday that Johnson, 32, pled no contest to vandalism and preventing …

Former president Bill Clinton traveled with Jeffrey Epstein to his private island and stayed there with “two young girls” from New York, according to a recently-unsealed interview of prominent Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre. “I remember asking Jeffrey what’s Bill Clinton doing here kind of thing, and he laughed it off and said ‘well he …