Police spokeswoman Monique Bond says Chicago had 510 murders last year - the first increase since 2003.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

These are stories of an investigator who has to solve murders and other crimes.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

"The murders and crimes disappeared when they let sunlight come into the Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Los Angeles continued the trend of fewer murders in 2008.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Mrs.Stoddard called the recent murders in Afghanistan horrific.

VOA: special.2010.08.16

And these include domestic violence, dowry murders,coerced abortions, honor crimes and the killing of infants simply because they are born female.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

He has described the attacks, as the "biggest,most complicated and most serious series of murders in the history of Hungarian criminology."

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

The AWB blames Malema for Terre'Blanche's death, the latest of some 3000 murders of white farmers since the end of apartheid.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

U.S.officials say the heavily armed cartel often carries out murders, kidnappings and assaults to further its reach.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

"Its dangerous for reporters to work in Russia. There have been many murders and physical attacks and threats against journalists for just doing their jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

MDC supporters and activists are arrested on minor charges, while not a single ZANU-PF supporter has been arrested, despite the 150 murders of MDC supporters last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The report says violence is at about the same level it was in 2004, after the U.S.-led invasion but before the escalation of violence and sectarian murders that peaked in 2006 and 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31