Violent Crime News

In this April 27, 2012, file photo, James Perriello arrives at District Court in Newport, N.H. Perriello, who shot his wife to death in a jealous rage as their young son slept nearby, will argue for less than the maximum life sentence prosecutors want.

TV report says 25-year-old Brian Sentkowski of Nekoosa is charged with mistreating an animal.

A man charged with murder refused to leave his cell for a hearing at Huddersfield Magistrates' Court this morning .

The attorney who helped get George Zimmerman acquitted of murder charges earlier this year is being investigated by the Florida Bar after a complaint was filed against him.

A jury on Tuesday recommended life in prison rather than the death penalty for Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari in the 2001 mob-style killing of a former gambling executive who also founded the Miami Subs restaurant chain.

A gunman opened fire at a hospital campus in Reno on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding two others before turning the weapon on himself.

A young man accused of killing a 4-year-old boy on a central Michigan Indian reservation and burning the body pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder.

Indianapolis police have arrested a 19-year-old Indianapolis man in connection with the Saturday shooting death of a 15-year-old boy at a Northwestside apartment complex.

A jury recommended Monday that a 29-year-old man be sentenced to death for the 2007 killings of his ex-girlfriend's father and sister and attempted murder of her mother in Anaheim Hills.

A Washington state man accused of killing his 3-year-old son in a Montana field is to appear in court to change his plea.

The Nashville bar owner charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of singer-songwriter Wayne Mills has been released from jail ahead of his next court date.

The phones are jingling off the hook at Dial-a-Carol, a student-run project on the University of Illinois' Champaign campus.

Authorities say a man accused of killing a 9-year-old girl who lived in his Ohio trailer park has a "diminished mental capacity."

A man accused of killing a 9-year-old neighbor and hiding her body under garbage in a trash bin was building a snowman with the girl just a few hours before she was reported missing, investigators said Monday.

Two men charged with first-degree murder and hate crimes in the shooting deaths of three people last year pleaded guilty Monday and were sentenced to life in prison without parole.

A man charged in the 2011 death of an Arkansas police dispatcher pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder on Monday, one of his lawyers said.

A northeastern Pennsylvania man accused of killing three people at a municipal meeting in August has pleaded not guilty to homicide charges.

Nearly two months after a Broward County jury convicted Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari of the 2001 mob-style murder of local businessman Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, the same jury will begin considering whether to recommend the death penalty or life in prison.

Twenty-nine-year-old Omar Denton of Milton and 26-year-old Omar Bonner of Boston have been arrested in connection with the killing of a man in his 20s early Saturday morning.

The Yakima County Sheriff's Office said the shooting occurred early Sunday morning in an area outside the Yakima County city of Grandview.