Business groups in Ciudad Juárez, México, are asking the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops, arguing the 5,000 Mexican troops stationed there are "not enough."

Fernando Bermudez, a 40-year-old man from New York, has been declared innocent of the murder for which he was convicted 18 years ago. Bermudez, who has been in prison since the age of 22, will still face over two years in jail for a drug charge.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who was about to be deployed to Afghanistan, killed 13 soldiers and injured 31 others in Fort Hood, Texas before being shot and killed by police.

A 56-year-old woman and her daughter (35 years old) were ordered by a judge to stand outside a courtroom holding signs reading: "I stole from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday! Don't steal or this could happen to you!" The two women agreed to hold the signs to avoid jail time.

Richmond, California police say they have arrested five suspects in the gang rape of a 15-year-old high school student. As many as 20 people are believed to have witnessed the crime. Richmond Police Lieutenant Mark Gagan: "We do not have the ability to arrest people who witnessed the crime and did nothing. The law can be very rigid."

An Arizona man allegedly ran over his daughter and her friend because she was "too Westernized."

A Nashville woman says she was stabbed and had her baby stolen from her home after a "robust white American" showed up to her house posing as an immigration agent.

Three Chicago teens have been charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of 16-year-old honor student Derrion Albert. The three boys, who hit Albert with wooden planks, were caught after a cell phone video was turned into police.

The prime suspect in the murder of a Yale graduate student has been arrested but he's not talking.

For the second year in a row, violent crime — murder, rape and robbery – is down in the U.S.