A national spotlight on Colorado’s gang activity is raising concerns that newcomers are bringing new violence. But experts say the Denver metro's gang history is mostly homegrown.

One of the most notorious and violent criminal organizations globally, MS-13 originated in the 1980s in Los Angeles, ...

He became involved in the gang in the 1980s in Los Angeles and participated ... He is now the executive director of Homies Unidos and is a violence-prevention worker and expert on gang culture.

We know that tough-on-crime policies for children have been tried repeatedly elsewhere and have failed. So why is my country ...

The gunmen had just killed two men from a rival gang when ... Cartel in the late 1980s. In May, award-winning journalist Javier Valdez became a high-profile victim of the violence in Sinaloa.

was created in the 1980s in Los Angeles by poor mostly illegal immigrants who had escaped from the civil war in El Salvador. "Why I joined Central America's brutal MS-13 gang" When the conflict ...