Violent Crime News

George Zimmerman, right, listens to jury consultant Robert Hirschhorn during Zimmerman's trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Monday, June 17, 2013.

Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for taking part in the brutal killing of a ranching couple 13 years ago.

Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for the October 2000 stabbing deaths of a couple on whose ranch he had worked.

A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a 7-year-old girl during a chaotic search for a murder suspect that was recorded by a reality TV crew.

It was a quiet part of the Father's Day Mass as about 300 people stood up in preparation for communion.

A southwest Ohio judge has set an Aug. 19 trial date for a man accused of killing his 5-year-old niece.

Federal authorities have fired and demoted U.S. probation officers in the monitoring of a man charged with raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother during a carjacking at a New York mall.

An ex-gangster who admitted killing 20 people was unemotional Monday when describing his line of work at the trial of his former partner, James "Whitey" Bulger, but called himself heartbroken when he learned that Bulger had become an FBI informant.

It was a bloody Father's Day weekend in Chicago, but police said murder and shooting rates are significantly below those at the same time last year.

An Arizona man on trial for sending his 16-year-old nephew into a busy intersection last summer with a fake grenade launcher was convicted Monday of endangering the teen's life and carrying out a terrorism hoax.

Jurors in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old slayings of four women in Northern California wiped tears from their eyes on Monday, as a prosecutor showed graphic images of the victims' bodies and described how they were discovered.

The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.

After a deadly mass shooting that raged through the Santa Monica, an unrelated, fatal gang-related shooting occurred nearby, community members took to the streets on Sunday to call for peace.

A September trial has been scheduled for a former trucker who's been ruled mentally competent for a murder trial in Des Moines.

End ie2013-contentLeft--> An FIR has been lodged against son of a local SP leader and his aide on charges of rape and murder of a woman in Rajpura area, police said today.

A young boy was shot as he slept in his bed during a drive-by shooting early Sunday off Adeline Street, authorities said.

Gun violence flared over the Father's Day weekend in Chicago. At least seven people died and 30 others wounded in shootings across the city, authorities said.

Residents are anxious to return to the scene of Colorado's most destructive wildfire but authorities say it's still not safe.

Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal resource workers.

Adding to the growing list of sexual crimes in West Bengal, a teenage girl's decomposed body was found by locals in the jute field of Behrampore, Murshidabad, after a strong stench was detected on Saturday.