Violent Crime News

A man charged with shooting a prominent Kansas doctor who performed late-term abortions has been advocating through mailings from his jail cell that such killings are justifiable and communicating with individuals on the fringes of the anti-abortion movement, weeks after suggesting others might be planning similar attacks.

A Windham County jury found a Wilmington man guilty of voluntary manslaughter Thursday, ending the third day of deliberations in what had started as a second-degree murder trial.

UTICA, N.Y. - A 20-year-old woman charged with smothering her infant daughter in April 2008 pleaded not guilty in a New York court after being returned from North Carolina on a fugitive warrant.

An attorney for a man charged with sexually assaulting and killing a 3-year-old Nebraska girl is trying to keep his client from facing the death penalty.

Police say a 12-year-old East Point boy has been shot and killed by a 14-year-old playmate at an apartment complex where both lived.

Officials are investigating the shooting deaths of two women not far from where a prominent South Carolina peach farmer was killed last week.

A judge has granted a bench trial for a woman accused of killing her four daughters.

A 41-year-old man accused of bludgeoning two teenagers to death with a dumbbell in suburban Pittsburgh has been ordered to stand trial.

Police have made an arrest in the slaying of a pregnant woman killed in a barrage of bullets in Pittsburgh.

A new Iowa law lets you take your bottle of wine "to-go." As of today, if you don't finish the bottle, the restaurant can cork it for you.

The man arrested in the killing a U.S. Army soldier and wounding of another outside a Little Rock recruiting station has changed his mind about changing his name.

The Census Bureau says New Orleans is the fastest growing big city in the U.S. At 311,000 there is still a long way to go to get to the 2000 population of 485,000. Will New Orleans get back to that level? No Yes Maybe, but it will take a long time New Orleans police are investigating the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman.

A grand jury will consider evidence against the 18-year-old accused in the shooting death of a Metro middle school principal.

A divided state Supreme Court has ruled detectives properly questioned a woman accused of killing her infant nephew.

Sheriff's deputies are looking for a person of interest in the shooting death of a prominent South Carolina peach farmer.

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - A suburban Detroit judge has set bail that could lead to the release of a man charged with killing his parents nearly three years ago.

Authorities in Grant County say two men have been arrested in the shooting death of a 19-year-old man earlier this month.

Jurors have heard opening statements in the case of a New Hampshire man accused of killing another man near Boston's South Station.

A husband and wife accused of killing their 13-year-old son by tying him to a tree have been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.

A 28-year-old B.C. man has been charged with second-degree murder in the May 28 shooting of a man with ties to organized crime.