Violent Crime News

At 10 a.m. on Dec. 3, 2013, students' cellphones at South Carolina State University buzzed or beeped with this text message: "Initiation of Lockdown: The following alert is an active shooter mock drill being conducted by SC State Police.

A Lake County judge has denied a request by a Waukegan woman accused of killing a 3-month-old child to leave jail to visit her dying father in Milwaukee.

Displaying photographs of a bare-chested Oscar Pistorius standing in his garage on bloodied prosthetic legs and wearing shorts soaked in his girlfriend's blood, prosecutors attempted Friday to focus attention on the killing for which the double-amputee Olympian is on trial for murder, while the defense poked holes in the police investigation that ... (more)

Eleven-year-old Caitlyn Virts was found with her father, 38-year-old Timothy Virts, in a South Carolina motel.

Fourteen alleged members of a San Francisco street gang have been indicted by a federal grand jury on racketeering and conspiracy charges for a series of violent crimes, including a 2011 shooting death.

A popular fifth-grade teacher who fatally shot a knife-wielding prowler in a ski mask and then learned it was his 15-year-old son will not face prosecution, a person briefed on the decision told The Associated Press on Friday.

Thirty-four-year-old Eric Lamont Owens of Spartanburg has been arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

Twenty-five-year-old Frank Terrance Singleton III pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of murder, armed robbery, burglary and kidnapping.

A man convicted after his third trial in the 1991 killings of nine people, including six monks, at a suburban Phoenix Buddhist temple is set for sentencing and faces life in prison.

Two Maryland women accused of killing two children they believed were possessed by demons were indicted on Thursday on multiple counts of murder, authorities said.

A woman accused of killing a 7-year-old Boston girl and seriously injuring her mother while driving drunk has been indicted on a new charge of manslaughter by motor vehicle.

Former Manson Family member Bruce Davis, who was sentenced to life in prison for two 1969 murders carried out with other members of the cult, was granted parole on Wednesday by a California parole board, although it was not certain he would be freed.

One of the first two police officers at the house to investigate the shooting testified that he followed a "trail of blood" when he got there.

A suspected drunken driver fleeing police crashed through barricades set up for the South By Southwest festival Thursday and drove into a crowd of revelers and other vehicles, killing two people and injuring 23. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said five of the injured were in critical condition.

A judge has ruled that a man alleged to have given a gun to another man accused of killing four Omaha people is not guilty.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court must decide if a Pennsylvania teen should get a new trial in the death of his father's pregnant fiance, who was fatally shot with a youth-model shotgun when he was 11. Jordan Brown, now 16, has been in juvenile detention since being charged in the 2009 shooting deaths of Kenzie Houk and her unborn son in a case that ... (more)

In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, Kristen Westfall is led into the Tyler County Jail by Tyler County Sheriff Bryan Weatherford in Woodville, Texas.

Two men have been charged with killing three members of a Southern California household whose bodies were found in their burned home eight years ago.

OTTAWA, Kan. - A judge has ordered a 28-year-old Kansas man to stand trial in the deaths of three adults and an 18-month-old child.

A man who killed two people at a Maryland mall in January before killing himself acted alone, had no connection with his victims and may have had a fixation with the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, police said Wednesday.