Nov. 16—The leader of an alleged Waianae gang pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to running chicken fighting derbies and illegal gambling dens, and marketing methamphetamine. The ...

While gentrification has reduced the size of gang territory, they continue to be a force in the tough pockets they claim. Gangs Cling to Westside Haunts - Los Angeles Times ...

Like most Latino gangs in Southern California, Westside Verdugo is subservient to the Mexican Mafia. Sometimes called a “gang of gangs,” the organization is composed of about 140 men, ...

A Maplewood man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to his role in a fatal shooting on St. Paul's Raspberry Island last year. Romello ...

CHICAGO — Closing arguments began Monday in the federal racketeering trial of a purported West Side gang boss who’s accused of ordering the murders of six men between 2000 and 2003. Federal ...

A Long Island MS-13 gang member formally confessed to taking part in the gruesome killings of two young victims, nearly a ...

The gangs of the “West Side Story” era were often a normal yet fleeting aspect of adolescence, soon to be supplanted by work, marriage and children. But in the 1970s and 1980s, ...

Nearly 200 gang members belonging to what the Chicago Police Department calls the most violent gang faction in the West Side's Harrison District have been arrested as part of the department's ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif.– Santa Barbara resident Igor Ortiz pled guilty to the first-degree murder of 29-year-old Alberto Torres in a eastside Santa Barbara 2019 gang-related murder.

Court records say Salat, of the West Side, was a documented member of the BL 800 gang, or Bantu Life 800 gang, that operated in the Wedgewood Village Apartments between at least May 2022 and March ...

The songs are timeless, the casting contemporary and dance routines still daring. But for social scientists like us, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 hit musical “West Side Story” – a ...