Violent Crime News

Hero cop rape charge : Richard DeCoatsworth, a 27-year-old former police officer, has been accused of rape and other crimes.

Two people were fatally shot in the head and another shot dead in the chest in weekend violence that wounded at least nine others across Chicago, according to police.

A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.

Internet Celebrity Hitchhiker Arrested in Clark Murder A homeless hitchhiker who gained internet fame earlier this year was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station and charged with the murder of a Clark lawyer last Sunday.

Junior public relations major Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head early Friday morning by an officer who opened fire after the masked intruder pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old student, Nassau County homicide squad Lt.

Police say several men opened fire on the group early Saturday in the eastern town of Las Piedras.

An Oklahoma appeals court has upheld the life prison sentence of a 38-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting his uncle to death.

A 35-year-old Independence man has been charged in connection with the deadly shooting of Charles Dunnington, the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office said.

Gerry Leone was the district attorney for Middlesex County in Massachusetts when three people were murdered in a house in the Boston suburb of Waltham.

Ball Ground Woman Charged with Killing Father - Canton-Sixes Patch A Ball Ground woman has been arrested for allegedly murdering her father after Cherokee County sheriff's deputies discovered his decomposed body inside the home.

Updated at 11:45 a.m. Livingston County Prosecutor William Vailliencourt confirmed that he has filed new charges in the shooting death of Charles Kimball.

Patrick Ward appears in the courtroom at the Boulder County Jail on Thursday. He was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide in the weekend crash in Lyons that killed a Boulder cyclist.

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, said Thursday that they're looking into whether there's a connection between the recent killings of a university professor and his wife and two unsolved area homicides.

Hamilton police have seized an incinerator found on the property of a man accused of killing a 32-year-old father after a test drive.

The 28-year-old son of a Florida fertility doctor has been charged by federal authorities with tricking his girlfriend into taking a pill used to induce labor and cause an abortion, killing the fetus she was carrying.

HONOLULU - A jury on Thursday convicted a Wahiawa man of second-degree murder and other charges in a 2011 shooting rampage through Honolulu that killed a mother of 10 and wounded two other people.

Norma Sawyer, 84, of Bridgewater, was driving a Dodge Neon when she collided with a box truck owned by Carroll Tire of Lebanon, N.H. A suburban New York man is expected to be arraigned in a Vermont courtroom on a charge that he killed his wife almost two decades ago.

Bond was set at $5 million today for Hernandez Warren, charged with the 1984 murder of Gloria Pointer.

A second suspect has been arrested in the shooting that injured 20 people at a parade on Mother's Day, police said Thursday afternoon.

Federal authorities say the son of a Tampa-area fertility doctor is accused of tricking his girlfriend into taking an abortion drug to kill her unborn child.