WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- The office of Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, issued the following news release: Designed to provide Alaska's villages more tools to promote and sustain safer communities, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich today introduced the Alaska Safe Families and Villages Act of 2010. While maintaining the state's primary role and responsibility in criminal matters, the legislation provides funding for up to nine Alaska Native tribes to participate in demonstration projects to improve their local p  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-N.Y. (7th CD), issued the following news release: Congressman Joseph Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx) and Councilman Jimmy Vacca visited the Crime Victims Support Services (CVSS) of the North Bronx on Tuesday, August 3. Together, they saw firsthand how the $10,000 Congressman Crowley secured in federal funding through his Crime Stoppers initiative has been put to use. CVSS is a non-profit that provides services for and assistance to innocent victims o  more

ROANOKE, Va., Aug. 5 -- The city of Roanoke issued the following news release: The Roanoke Police Department saw a decrease of nearly four percent in crime city-wide during the first six months of 2010 as compared to the first six months of 2009. However, calls for police service of a domestic nature increased 20 percent during the same time period, and domestic incidents investigated by officers rose 38 percent. This includes increases in the following categories: Domestic Aggravated Assa  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: Brandon Snater, age 29, from Anamosa, Iowa, was arrested yesterday and appeared in federal court today on a charge of being a domestic violence misdemeanant in possession of ammunition. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed on July 28, 2010, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids. Snater is being held in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for August 6, 2010  more