Are we prematurely putting 2008 to ‘bed’? Will the final count remain at 123 or will we see another of our neighbors taken from us before the clock strikes midnight? Well, on a positive note, right now the death toll is 2 fewer than last year. On a pessimistic note, we recall the count for [...]

Well, it’s 2008. We start a new homicide count today. The number for 2007 was 125. We’ve already got #1 for the new year. The 2007 total ends up at 18 less than 2006′s 140 killings, but we all know that year was an exception, a big spike. The count was a mere 96 during [...]