Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Robbie’s a good guy, and I always saw him as a good guy, and Pelphrey saw him as a good guy, so we needed someone to add danger ...

NEW YORK — Rule No. 2 in the membership handbook is simple: Anyone who disrespects the Trinitarios gang must be swiftly, and severely, punished. The punishment typically follows a pattern: A crowd of ...

Maryland federal prosecutors have indicted six MS-13 members in recent months, including the alleged leader of the Centrales Locos Salvatrucha (CLS) clique of the gang in the Baltimore area. The ...

Just after 5 a.m. on a cold Tuesday last February, a crash of breaking glass shattered the morning stillness at a Citgo gas station in Swampscott. The silver tip of a hammer jabbed into the storefront ...

So-called 'olders' reveal how younger gang members are used for selling drugs and carrying out violence for the gang. Girls are increasingly being sucked into gangs, finding their own roles within ...

“This favela is one of the safest places in the whole of Rio,” claimed my guide, Johan Gama, a 22-year-old local resident. “The gangs have their own rule system to keep the ...