Violent Crime News

The release of Robert Fischer of Irvine on Monday night stemmed from a Feb. 28 decision by a judge who concluded the case's evidence didn't support a jury's guilty verdict against Fischer, threw out the conviction and granted a new trial.

A man accused of killing a mother and her two young children and sexually assaulting her daughter in Colorado has a violent criminal past that includes child molestation and spans at least a decade.

Passionate TV fans are like puppies with a chew toy: They sink their teeth - and hearts - into their favorite shows and just refuse to let go.

Nye County sheriff's officials say an alleged gunman was arrested on a murder charge and five relatives are being held pending immigration proceedings following the shooting death of a 25-year-old man last week at a dairy in rural Amargosa Valley.

A man accused of abducting and killing nursing student Holly Bobo is scheduled to appear in a Decatur County courtroom Tuesday to be arraigned on charges.

The account by Darren Fresco, who has been identified as being with Pistorius on two occasions when a gun was fired in public, corroborated much of the testimony of another witness who was at the scene of the sunroof shooting.

Sunday marked the 17th anniversary of the day Notorious B.I.G. was killed in drive-by shooting after a party in Los Angeles.

Prosecutors were scheduled to begin presenting evidence Tuesday in the capital murder case against a 28-year-old man accused of killing four people, including a toddler, at an eastern Kansas farm.

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NEW YORK a?? After the murder of Kitty Genovese 50 years ago Thursday, night began to descend on this and America's other big cities.

Authorities have released the name of a man killed in a shootout with state Department of Public Safety officers and a security guard on a Tempe freeway.

Theresa Riggi, 50, was jailed for 16 years for killing her eight-year-old twins Austin and Luke and her five-year-old daughter Cecilia at their Edinburgh home in August 2010.

Authorities say a 31-year-old family friend has been arrested in the deaths of a mother and two young children in Canon City, Colo.

This undated identification file photo provided April 3, 2013, by Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn., shows former student Adam Lanza, who carried out the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 33-year-old man suspected of opening fire inside a northern Ohio nightclub over the weekend, killing an off-duty police officer and two other men.

The sequence is important for the defense because, if it can prove that Pistorius called security first, it could support the contention that he was seeking help as quickly as possible.

A verdict could be reached as early as today in the High Court murder trial of a Mongrel Mob prospect accused of killing Christchurch sex worker Mellory Manning.

A former handyman serving life in prison for the 1993 murder of seven people at a suburban Chicago restaurant has been awarded nearly a half-million dollars in a civil lawsuit in which he alleged a jail guard punched him in the face.

The DuPage County State's Attorney's Office released the following information Friday: DuPage County State's Attorney Robert B. Berlin announced today that the Second District Appellate Court has affirmed the First Degree Murder conviction of Luis Villavicencio-Serna, 23 for the 2009 murder of Armando Huerta, Jr., 18, of Addison.