Violent Crime News

A convicted killer already serving a life sentence has been charged in the shooting death of an aspiring teacher gunned down for his iPod a month after moving to Philadelphia.

Authorities in North Carolina have arrested two men in a pair of shooting deaths near Wingate University that prompted a campus lockdown.

A 45-year-old Florida man has received a 30- to 60-year prison sentence after accepting a plea deal in the 1991 rape and killing of a mother of five at a suburban Detroit social agency where she worked as a custodian.

The motorcycle mechanic accused in a deadly shooting rampage at Los Angeles International Airport last month faces his first court hearing Wednesday.

A Connecticut college student arrested carrying two handguns on campus also had an assault rifle and bullets in his car, and police found 2,700 rounds of ammunition and newspaper clippings of the Colorado theater shooting at his home, authorities said Wednesday.

As memories fade from last December's horrific school shooting in Newtown, Conn., a new national poll indicates that support for stricter gun control laws appears to be fading, too.

An attorney says a New York train engineer experienced a nod or "a daze" before his train derailed at a curve, killing four passengers.

SALEM, Mass. - A 14-year-old boy pleaded not guilty to murder, aggravated rape and armed robbery charges Wednesday in the killing of his high school math teacher.

A Florida man accused of killing his wife and posting pictures of her corpse on Facebook is due in a Miami courtroom for a hearing.

A Florida man has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of his wife, whose bloody corpse was depicted in photos he later posted on Facebook.

A suspected robber is in critical condition after shooting himself in the chest when police came to take him into custody.

A few weeks after Bryce Reed proclaimed he would personally protect a Texas town devastated by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, he was arrested by federal agents who said he collected materials to make a pipe... A few weeks after Bryce Reed proclaimed he would personally protect a Texas town devastated by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, he ... (more)

An attorney for a man charged in the 1997 slaying of his wife in Iowa City says he hasn't decided whether to challenge his extradition from Minnesota.

A jury has been chosen for the retrial of a former New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a man whose burned body turned up after Hurricane Katrina.

When USA TODAY started investigating mass killings, it seemed a fairly straightforward thing to count: How many times have at least four people died at the hands of another in a single incident? But marking the death toll of mass killings in America is anything but simple.

In the foyer of her grandparents' house in Covina in suburban Los Angeles, Katrina darted toward the man at the door on Christmas Eve.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged in a central Ohio juvenile court with aggravated murder and other counts in the stabbing death of an 18-year-old friend last month near a high school.

A man accused of killing two teenage boys after friends said the boys tried to blackmail him has pleaded not guilty in Adams County court.

Officials say an Eastern Michigan University student was hit in the shoulder by a shot apparently fired randomly into the air from outside an off-campus apartment.

Jason Michael Hann admits he killed two of his children just weeks after they were born, his attorney said.