Violent Crime News

A grand jury has handed up indictments charging a Durham woman with manslaughter, felony child abuse and other misdemeanors in the April shooting death of her 9-year-old son.

The man accused of murdering another man and dismembering his body has testified about some of the grisly details of the crime.

Bieniewicz, 44, of Westland, was working as a referee at a men's soccer game in Livonia on June 29 when Saad, faced with ejection, struck him with a punch, Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy said.

A man convicted of the 1994 rape and killing of an 11-year-old Florida girl is set to be executed Thursday with the victim's grandmother watching from the witness chamber on behalf of the child and her deceased mother.

A North Texas woman whose boyfriend has been accused of killing her toddler daughter faces charges that she helped bury the body under a bridge.

Formal charges have been filed against Michael Taylor for his alleged role in the shooting death of Michael Gillam over the weekend in South Bend.

The Augusta Chronicle reports Columbia County sheriff's deputies arrested the 16-year-old suspect after radio station WGAC host Austin Rhodes reported threats he received via postings on Facebook.

Authorities say a Utah woman's motive for killing six of her newborns was that she was addicted to drugs and didn't want to deal with the responsibility.

A judge has refused to order a new trial for a tow truck driver convicted in the Beaufort County shooting death of another man.

In this March 24, 2014, file photo, Joey Kadmiri consults with his lawyer Carl Arnold at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas Township Justice Court.

A 63-year-old Alaska man has been sentenced to four consecutive life terms after being convicted in the shooting deaths of two co-workers at a Coast Guard communications station on Alaska's Kodiak Island.

Government officials say workers cleaning a storage room at a research center made a startling discovery last week - decades-old vials of smallpox forgotten in a cardboard box.

Spokane police said a man went to his wife's workplace in the Deaconess Medical Center complex and opened fire.

The Fourth of July holiday weekend brought an explosion of gunfire to Chicago, with more than 50 people shot and nine killed, authorities said on Monday.

Detective Dareall Thompson tells The Meridian Star 26-year-old Lyndell Marcell Pritchard, who is charged with murder and two counts of possession of stolen firearms, was scheduled to have his initial hearing Monday, but the hearing was moved to Wednesday.

Jeremiah Belton was arrested Sunday and charged with murder, first-degree burglary and weapons possession, according to Charleston County sheriff's deputies.

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said Verdale Moore, 24, of Hammond, escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail in Amite.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy speaks at a news conference Monday, July 7, 2014, in Chicago.

Deputy Erick Gelhaus fired multiple rounds at Andy Lopez in response to what he believed was an imminent threat of death, Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch announced at a news conference.

Proceedings began Monday with prosecutors dropping eight charges against Joey Kadmiri, including attempted murder, armed robbery and several robbery with use of a weapon.