KNOXVILLE, Tenn. In a powerful demonstration of the way the Internet has opened up the mainstream media to intensive second-guessing, bloggers are charging that news outlets have ignored the rape and murder of a young Knoxville couple because of the racial implications of the story.

The crimes are serious and the suspects are young. But the juvenile justice system isn’t primarily about punishment. It’s about rehabilitation and restoring the minor to a positive role in the community. As we take a look at crime and Generation Y, we see that concept at work in Winnebago County.

YAKIMA- Sunday May 20, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., WSDOT and Yakima County Crime Stoppers are closing SR 821 (Canyon Road) to through traffic to make a safe place for the fifth annual “Your Canyon for a Day Bike Tour.”

A recent wave of crime in Japan, ranging from gang warfare and child abandonment to beheadings, has left some wondering about the cause: Declining social mores? Smuggled guns? Corporate layoffs? Or Pachinko?

* Crime reporter Hannah Winkler tells us how the state’s new sex offender registry is helping out local communities. * The new jail is still a work-in-progress.

A mother beheaded by her son. A baby who suffocated after being stuffed by his parents in the baggage compartment of a motorbike while they went gambling. A murderous shooting spree during a hostage standoff.

The crime rate in Fontana decreased 5.5 percent last year, according to a recent report by the Fontana Police Department. The number of Part 1 (major) crimes in the city went down from 4,427 in 2005 to 4,181 in 2006, even though the city’s population continued to rise.

Are juvenile crime rates up in the summer? Local neighborhoods do their best to start the hottest months off right.

The local branch of Crime Stoppers must look elsewhere for the bulk of more than $11,000 it recently requested from the city’s police service. Members of the Cornwall Community Police Services board decided Wednesday to give the group $3,000 to help offset salary costs.

NEW plans to fight crime and delinquency must target babies in the womb, a Downing Street review concluded today. Mothers will be singled out only 16 weeks after conception if they are deemed at risk from drugs, criminality or social exclusion and then given special help for two years.