Violent Crime News

The Supreme Court is considering whether to give a new sentencing hearing to a man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in Kentucky.

A former Phoenix police officer pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday in a deal that spares him another trial on charges of second-degree murder and animal cruelty.

The man wanted in the shooting death of the brother-in-law of Columbia, S.C.'s mayor has been arrested in Charlotte.

Lake Tahoe News reports a jury in South Lake Tahoe imposed the death penalty against 62-year-old Joseph Michael Nissensohn after deliberating for about 90 minutes Tuesday.

Kenzo Dix rests at the top of a beautiful hill overlooking the San Francisco Bay.

Dozens of angry protesters flooded the City Council chambers of a Northern California town Tuesday to protest the return to duty of a sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy in October.

The teen brothers accused of killing a National Guardsman last week over an iPad may have sought out other robbery victims through Craigslist in the past, court documents indicate.

The three-member board reached the decision Tuesday after hearing from the victim's mother, Mississippi state Rep. Deborah Butler Dixon of Jackson.

A League City man has been indicted over the 2012 death of his mother whose body was found buried in the backyard of their home.

A 22-year-old Elkhart man has pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of the owner of a northern Indiana convenience store and an employee.

In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, file photo, George Zimmerman, acquitted in the high-profile killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, listens in court, in Sanford, Fla., during his hearing on charges including aggravated assault stemming from a fight with his girlfriend.

Tempe police have identified the 28-year-old man who was fatally shot at a party and the 18-year-old man arrested in the shooting.

A San Francisco man has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting another man who was trying to sell him a Sony PlayStation 4 gaming system.

A man was charged with reckless homicide Monday following the fatal shooting of an Indiana teenager hailed as a hero in 2010 when she helped save two children who fell into an icy reservoir.

Eric Brandon is charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and firearm possession in the February 2012 death of 16-year-old Alexander Koser.

CCTV of Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale as they speak to a member of the public, which has been shown in court during the trial of the two who stand accused of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby ONE of the two men accused of murdering fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich has said he killed as a "soldier for Allah" and should be punished by being ... (more)

Cherokee County Sheriff deputies are investigating the shooting death of 47-year-old Christopher Pierce who was found Sunday evening inside his Misty Hollow Way home.

The trial of a man allegedly involved in a shooting at an Elkhart convenience store is scheduled to begin Monday.

Officials said a Miami Police officer was forced to fire after an altercation between two men in front of a South Florida barbershop escalated into gun violence, leaving both men dead.

One of the stories I've been woefully behind on is the murder of 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, a teacher at Danvers High School in Danvers, Massachusetts.