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The FBI's Hate Crime Statistics presents data regarding incidents, offenses, victims, and offenders in reported crimes that were motivated in whole or in part by a bias against the victim's perceived race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability in 2006 and 2007.

UPDATED! Search national crime reports by year, state and city from 2005 through 2008. The data is provided by the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

The FBI is investigating Tempe, although city officials refused to say Friday what the probe is about. The investigation comes on the heels of the city’s decision to withhold information about federal housing funds that were awarded to the son of a city councilwoman. Both the refusal to release records and conflict of interest are potentially violations of federal law.

The FBI is investigating Tempe, although city officials refused to say Friday what the probe is about. The investigation comes on the heels of the city’s decision to withhold information about federal housing funds that were awarded to the son of a city councilwoman. Both the refusal to release records and conflict of interest are potentially violations of federal law.

October 28, 2004

WASHINGTON - The FBI has failed to translate hundreds of thousands of hours of wiretap recordings from counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite steep increases in funding for new linguists and other translation services, according to a report released Monday.

September 28, 2004

The FBI is intensifying efforts to interview Muslims and other Valley residents this month as part of a nationwide plan to thwart a terrorist attack before the Nov. 2 election.

The warnings from Phoenix FBI agent Kenneth Williams in July 2001 seemed to foretell the carnage that would come two months later, when 19 hijackers launched the worst act of terrorism ever committed on U.S. soil.

The FBI says it's investigating vandalism at a mosque under construction in Phoenix.

The estimated number of violent crimes in the nation declined for the second year in a row, according to the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report. Now you can search the database for 2005-08.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Federal agents on Wednesday searched the home of a man linked to the fatal 1982 Tylenol poisonings and the FBI in Chicago said authorities are reviewing evidence in the deaths that triggered a nationwide scare and prompted dramatic changes in the way food and medical products are packaged.

WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating four major U.S. financial institutions whose collapse helped trigger a $700 billion bailout plan by the Bush administration, The Associated Press has learned.

RALEIGH, N.C. - A Marine wanted in the brutal slaying of a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape was arrested Thursday night in Mexico after a three-month international manhunt, authorities said.