Violent Crime News

A former handyman serving life in prison for the 1993 murder of seven people at a suburban Chicago restaurant has been awarded nearly a half-million dollars in a civil lawsuit in which he alleged a jail guard punched him in the face.

The DuPage County State's Attorney's Office released the following information Friday: DuPage County State's Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that the Second District Appellate Court has affirmed the First Degree Murder conviction of Luis Villavicencio-Serna, 23 for the 2009 murder of Armando Huerta, Jr., 18, of Addison.

For eight long days, the jurors who would eventually deliver a guilty verdict in the murder trial of Dale Bruner played by the rules.

An Omaha man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the July 2012 shooting deaths of a man and his two teenage sons.

At 3:10am Lawrence Police Officers were dispatched to a shooting at 2403 Cedarwood Avenue, in the south central section of Lawrence.

A 35-year-old registered sex offender convicted in 2010 of exposing himself to several women is in jail again, this time accused of raping a 62-year-old woman.

It's not yet clear what sparked the shooting, which occurred shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday in a building on Martin Luther King Boulevard.

An Oklahoma City preacher has been convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of his son-in-law.

Two of three Vermont men suspected of killing a Sheffield woman during a botched 2010 robbery of her home are due in court Monday to face first-degree murder and other charges.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kelvin Parache of Rockville was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old James Allen Frazier.

The veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners" has died.

A judge has declared a mistrial in the murder case of a hip-hop promoter already serving a life sentence for smuggling cocaine.

Senators adopted a resolution Friday that would create a special committee to look at the circumstances of the case, and review the Department of Correctional Services' rehabilitative and mental health programs.

This image provided by the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows Ashton Sachs who was arrested Friday March 7, 2014, and booked for investigation of murder and is being held without bail.

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The murder trial of a Purdue University engineering student accused of killing another student on campus has been postponed for six months.

Police say the person responsible for a shooting inside a Memphis mall that left one man wounded is still at large.

A medical examiner's report says a natural cause is most likely in the death of a 10-year-old boy whose body was found in a family bathtub.

Samantha Taylor also said Pistorius carried a gun with him "all the time" when they were dating, and on one occasion he fired it out of a car's sunroof soon after a policeman stopped the car they were in for speeding.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is investigating after Okmulgee police officers were involved in a shooting that left one person dead.