Violent Crime News

A Jefferson County jury has recommended the death penalty for a Louisville man convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1983.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports the shooting at the club in the Stone community of Pike County happened Sunday during a meeting.

Jurors have begun deliberating between death by lethal injection and life imprisonment without parole in the slaying of a Houston-area police officer and an auto body shop owner.

A Hayward man wanted in a fatal motel shooting in the city's north end last month was awaiting extradition Monday after being located by police in Las Vegas and arrested on suspicion of murder.

A man on trial in the robbery-killing of Eastern Michigan football player Demarius Reed was a full participant in the crimes and is just as guilty as the confessed gunman, a prosecutor told an Ann Arbor jury today.

A parolee who fled from a crash scene was found guilty of killing a Nassau County police officer and a motorist.

Contract killer Rodney Charles Collins demanded police no longer pursue him over a brutal double murder in exchange for supplying information about the murder of a police informer and his wife, an inquest has been told.

Randy Browning watched from behind the glass as Kimberly McCarthy slipped quietly into unconsciousness, snored briefly, then finally stopped breathing.

Neighbors struggled to make sense of the shooting deaths of a family of five in which the father was known to many throughout their apartment complex as a friendly maintenance worker.

The Kalamazoo man who has been charged with murder in the shooting death of Christopher Adams last week has turned himself in, police said.

Atlanta police are investigating the murder of a man and GBI is investigating the deadly shooting of a armed and distraught woman by Henry County police.

The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reports 69-year-old James Williams was charged Saturday with murder in the July 19 death of 26-year-old Phillip Brunson at the Corner Pocket Club.

Sonja Muzika was out for her regular evening walk on Preston Avenue, heading south toward Saskatoon's Market Mall, when she witnessed something she said looked like a scene from a TV show.

Lucknow, July 27 : Samajwadi Party leader Rajendra Chaudhary on Sunday reiterated that the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav -led Uttar Pradesh government would ensure that whoever is found guilty in the Mohanlalganj rape case will be punished.

Ethan Morse, 18, was arrested Friday, July 25, 2014, on a warrant charging him with murder in connection with the deaths of three teenagers at a house party in 2013.

There are a lot of spots to fill, to replace an influx of teachers, principals and other school faculty who suddenly turned in their books and pens.

A Louisville man could receive the death penalty after he was convicted of raping and killing a woman in 1983.

Fast food workers from across the country have voted in suburban Chicago to escalate their campaign for higher wages and union representation by including civil disobedience.

Authorities found two more guns at the home of a man suspected of fatally shooting his caseworker and grazing his psychiatrist in suburban Philadelphia before the doctor pulled out his own weapon and fired back.

A judge in Akron disputes claims from prosecutors that she was biased in a death penalty murder case and says she shouldn't be removed.