Gangs have changed in the decades since West Side Story first came out—they are deadlier, and their demographics are different—as are the means law enforcement use to control them. The songs are ...

The incident occurred on September 23, 2017, at Martini’s Feel Good Lounge in Bakersfield, where Willis and members of the West Side Crips gang encountered a group from the east side of Bakersfield.

When hundreds of law enforcement officials converged upon Bakersfield on Tuesday to carry out a daring pre-dawn raid to bust scores of West Side Crips gang members, they began unraveling a ...

Two violent youth gangs -- with members as young as 10 years old -- are responsible for three killings amid at least a dozen shootings over the past six months, police confirmed Thursday.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Chicago man with leading a street gang that murdered rivals and violently protected its drug dealing operation on the city's West Side.

Their target, police believe, was a West Side Crips gang member. He wasn’t home. But his pregnant girlfriend and her two young children were. Gunfire struck and killed 3-year-old Major Sutton.

The crimes included narcotics sales and use, firearms-related crimes, wanton crimes, and violent crimes committed under the alleged small gang cliques like Down Bottom Gang, West Side Crips ...