Violent Crime News

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.

Anderson County authorities have released the names of three shot to death at a home in Pelzer.

Oscar Pistorius' lead defense lawyer grilled one of the neighbors of the star athlete Thursday, questioning the man over how many gunshots he thought he heard and at what on the night of Reeva Steenkamp's shooting death.

A northwestern Indiana man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for fatally shooting a convenience store clerk during a robbery.

Four Indianapolis police officers were shot Wednesday night while trying to serve a warrant at a home where police suspected residents were selling drugs.