Violent Crime News

A southern Indiana woman who pleaded guilty to murder charges in a Kentucky man's shooting death has been sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Alexandria Police say the unsolved slaying last month of a woman who was shot when she opened her front door appears to be linked to two other unsolved killings in the city.

A judge in Phoenix has ordered a new trial for a California lawyer accused of killing his stepdaughter's husband, ruling that evidence didn't support a jury's guilty verdict against the man.

A Pennsylvania man is in jail on a homicide charge after police accused him of assaulting, strangling and drowning his wife nearly two years ago and lying about an ATV wreck into a creek to cover up the crime.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott says a man wanted in a shooting death last month has been arrested in Virginia.

Prosecutors have opposed a motion seeking to delay the sentence for a man convicted of attempted murder in a dispute over loud music until after he's tried for fatally shooting a teenager in the incident.

Anderson County authorities have released the names of three shot to death at a home in Pelzer.

Oscar Pistorius' lead defense lawyer grilled one of the neighbors of the star athlete Thursday, questioning the man over how many gunshots he thought he heard and at what on the night of Reeva Steenkamp's shooting death.

A northwestern Indiana man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk during a robbery.

Four Indianapolis police officers were shot Wednesday night while trying to serve a warrant at a home where police suspected residents were selling drugs.

The man accused of hacking PC Keith Blakelock to death during the 1985 Tottenham riots wrote a rap, saying "we chop him all over", a court heard.

The Boulder City Attorney's Office has filed municipal charges against the University of Colorado student accused of killing a raccoon with a bat last year so he could "take its hide."

Many neighborhood feuds in the U.S. are caused by barking and parking. When it comes to barking, animal trainers say dogs are usually bored, scared or anxious, so they shouldn't be blamed for fights that involve their masters.

Pittsburgh police have charged a neighbor with killing two sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker during a break-in and robbery at their home last month.

Kevin Cooper, 33, from Redruth, is accused of killing David Alderson, who is originally from Rawtenstall, and whose body was found in disused mine works on January 18. Cooper is to face trial later this year accused of murdering the 72-year-old retired driving instructor, who was discovered in a shallow pool by a dog walker at Wheal Maid, near ... (more)

Prosecutors trying to prove that "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius deliberately killed his girlfriend are set to build on their case Wednesday that the two had a loud argument on Valentine's Day last year shortly before the fatal shooting.

A 17-year-old Catholic high school student is accused of killing his mother after an argument over the use of her car.

A man who was found guilty but mentally ill in the shooting death of another man outside a suburban Atlanta preschool is asking for a new trial.

Michael Reyes admitted he had been drinking prior to the collision at East J Street and Dennis Avenue that killed David Voigt of Chula Vista late Monday afternoon, according to Chula Vista police Lt.

The jury said Hurd killed Jasmine Hines, 18, her aunt Kinshasa Wagstaff, and Wagstaff's boyfriend, Kevin Young in 2008.