Over five agencies and 100 law enforcement officers responded to fights in South Boston yesterday around 5:30 pm. It took that many to contain a series of gang fights that involved and were witnessed by over 1,000 youths in the …

UK schoolteachers will learn how to identify students involved in gangs by searching computer accounts, social networks and email.

Beverly Hughes, the children’s minister, said, "There is evidence that, if gangs aren’t growing in number then they are coming down the age range," The Guardian reported. "There is anecdotal evidence that girls are being used in particular ways that puts them at risk and is very disturbing," Hughes said.