Violent Crime News

An east Texas mother accused of killing her baby sitter to keep the woman from testifying in a child welfare hearing has been charged with capital murder.

The deaths of four children in a house fire on Staten Island on July 22 have been ruled homicides, while their mother died by her own hand, according to autopsy results released by the city medical examiner's office on Thursday.

Rafael Avila was murdered execution-style on Mother's Day, May 9, 2010. Isaiah Washington and a 17-year old Fremont girl were charged with the murders.

A man accused of stabbing to death his son and ex-girlfriend, the child's mother, was indicted on murder charges by a Steuben County grand jury.

The man accused of stabbing his wife, marriage counselor Tonya Hunter-Lyons , 17 times in front of her young son was held on $8 million bond Thursday.

A businessman accused of killing a man at his Cheshire mansion has had murder charges against him dropped - the third time he has been cleared of murder.

Dane County sheriff's deputies have been involved in another fatal shooting. A man was shot and killed by deputies Wednesday night after they were called to a domestic disturbance just outside Stoughton.

A man whose northeastern Pennsylvania property contained as many as 12 corpses will be tried on double-murder charges this fall.

Police have arrested a second teen-aged male they believe is responsible for an early morning shooting in Parkville that left another teenager dead.Police believe the second arrest is the person who fired the gun that killed a 17-year-old boy.

A man walked into a house in an upscale gated community, pulled two handguns from a briefcase and killed two men and a mother while her three children played in the backyard, authorities said Thursday.

A teenage boy from Manitoba who shot and killed his adoptive mother and his five-year-old stepsister has been sentenced as a youth.

Authorities have charged a northeastern Philadelphia man with killing his mother-in-law over the weekend.

COPPELL, Texas Autopsy reports released by the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office on Tuesday confirm that the shooting deaths of Mayor Jayne Peters of Coppell, Texas and her 19-year-old daughter Corinne Peters were a murder-suicide. PICTURES: Texas Mayor and Daughter Murder-Suicide The autopsy report on Corinne Peters shows that the mayor's ...

Two men were convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday in the ambush death of a police officer after a bank robbery, even though neither defendant pulled the trigger.Levon Warner, 41, and Eric Floyd, 35, each face the possibility of the death penalty after being convicted on all counts Wednesday in the May 3, 2008, shooting death of Sgt.

An Oakland woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a Virginia man who was killed after being robbed of $17. An Oakland woman has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a Virginia man who was killed after being robbed of $17. Prosecutors also filed robbery charges against 33-year-old Althea Housley Tuesday.

A Philadelphia jury has reached a verdict in the trial of two men charged in the fatal shooting of a city police officer.

A man has admitted killing a friend with a pair of scissors after an argument over a girl in South Lanarkshire.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has added a man accused of murder to its list of Top Ten Most Wanted fugitives and is seeking the public's help to locate and arrest him.

A Polk County jury has convicted a man of voluntary manslaughter in a gang killing in Des Moines in 1995.

The trial for a Nebraska man charged in the shooting death of a maintenance worker at a rest stop on Interstate 80 in Iowa has been rescheduled.