Texas is a bearcat on repeat offenders, largely because we have just about the highest DWI rate in the country.

Drug offenses, even small ones, have a habit of hanging around for years, if not permanently.

It’s not too surprising to note that online identity theft is actually a much worse problem than you might think. The question becomes what do you do to protect yourself?

While we don’t really hear this word too often, other than on TV crime shows, racketeering is alive and well in the U.S. It’s complicated and costly and affects more people than you would think possible.

Usually what makes the overall difference in the classifications is the higher consequences – for instance capital murder is punishable by death or life in prison.

When the economy gets bad, one of the first things that seems to come apart at the seams is the crime rate. It goes up.