Violent Crime News

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.

It was one of many common threads between five females murdered on the Peninsula in 1976 -- they were young, and they were attractive.

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.