Most know the musical “West Side Story,” where Puerto Rican and white gangs rumble on the Upper West Side 1950s New York in the manner of the Montagues and Capulets.

The Associated Press / Residents flee their homes to escape gang violence in the Nazon neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 14. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Gangs in Haiti are recruiting children ...

In 1968, José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez enrolled in a course to earn a high school diploma to fulfill a judge’s requirement after a 60-day stint in Cook County Jail on drug charges. The teacher took the class ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gangs in Haiti are recruiting children at unprecedented levels, with the number of minors targeted soaring by 70% in the past year, according to a report released Monday ...

Dozens of people in Haiti’s capital have been killed in a clash between a powerful gang coalition and a group of armed men ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Longtime Chicago activist and organizer José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, who transformed the Young Lords from a Lincoln Park neighborhood street gang into a civil and human rights activist ...

A former police detective in Illinois joined the Drug Enforcement Administration to help a gang of drug dealers in Puerto Rico and provided the gang with weapons and distributed drugs over a decade, ...