City sticker design yanked, but not without pain: As controversy swirled, Chicago City Clerk Susana Mendoza weighed concerns from some quarters that gang signs adorned the new city sticker against the feelings of a 15-year-old boy who said winning the contest to design the decal was the best thing that ever happened to him. On Wednesday, Mendoza yanked the teen's version of the vehicle sticker and replaced it with a safer design, one that doesn't include hands drawn in a way that some experts associated with a notorious street gang symbol.

 Winnipeg group aims to gang up on gangs: An anti-gang initiative involving more than two dozen Winnipeg agencies got underway Wednesday with workshops at the Aboriginal Centre.

 Group helps at-risk youths change paths: When Xavier Hardin stopped showing up to his job-training program at the United Teen Equality Center in Lowell early last year, he began getting daily visitors at home.

 Bill to restrict gang member interaction going to the House: OLYMPIA, Wash.-- A House committee has passed a measure that lets local law enforcement restrict the behavior of gang members.

 Police in southern Chester County say they're targeting gangs aggressively: In a remote area of southern Chester County's mushroom-growing country, young people partying around a bonfire on Dec. 3 scattered when two carloads of Sureños - a Hispanic gang - roared up, wielding bats, boards, knives, brass knuckles, and broken bottles.

 Gang member license ID plan to be revised: A state representative’s proposal to mark gang members’ driver’s licenses with the letter “G’’ was heard yesterday before the Joint Committee on Transportation at the State House, but it probably will undergo significant revisions after it was later assailed as unconstitutional.

 70 arrested in Chattanooga police sweep: A citywide sweep by Chattanooga, Hamilton County and federal officers netted 21 felony arrests and 49 misdemeanor arrests over two days, police said Saturday.

 Huntsville superintendent: Fight at Lee High School was gang initiation: The four students from Lee High School who filmed a fight in a school bathroom and posted the video to YouTube did so as a gang initiation, Huntsville's superintendent said.

 Suspect Arrested After Stabbing Near Northside High: Fort Smith Police arrested for Manuel DeJesus Ortiz, 18, on suspicion of engaging in violent criminal activity, Thursday afternoon in connection with a gang fight took place near Northside High School.

 Wichita Sees Spike In Domestic Violence : Eight homicides were gang-related. It was the only category, police said, that spiked over year-to-year totals. Officers made 1,141 gang-related arrests in 2011, down 13-percent from 2010. Gang-related drive-by shootings were also the lowest over a five-year period.

 Gang violence threat adds security to Charlotte school .: There was a heavy presence of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers at M.L.K. Middle School Friday afternoon because of rumors that violence might break out.

 New anti-gang measures in the works : In some ways, Gilroy, Morgan Hill and Hollister have become poster children for an aggressive anti-gang movement over the past four months, highlighted by their participation in two celebrated and widely publicized raids that netted roughly 80 known gang members and their associates.

 Mexican Mafia: 119 members, associates nabbed in police dragnet: A federal grand jury in San Diego handed down 17 indictments and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California has filed eight criminal complaints charging a total of 119 suspects with federal racketeering conspiracy, drug trafficking violations, and federal firearm offenses, according to a government report obtained by the 14,000-member National Association of Chiefs of Police on Tuesday.