In early September, Costa Rica’s Security Minister Mario Zamora announced a multi-agency strategy involving security forces, the Public Ministry and the Judicial Investigation Organization. But he ...

The grass crunches underfoot and dust billows in dense clouds as a truck and trailer speed out of public lands in Montrose County. The trailer is full of calves lowing plaintively. The driver gives ...

There's a crime wave going on in the U.S., but it's not in hard-bitten urban neighborhoods. Rural communities and farms are increasingly being hit by criminals, lured by fields filled with animals and ...

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DECATUR, TEXAS — Troy McKinney was sitting in his truck outside the Decatur Livestock Market when he got a call about four heifers gone missing from a ranch in Hunt County. He sighed, spit a wad of ...