Violent Crime News

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.

Police say a former Missouri man was killed in a weekend shooting in East St. Louis just months after he moved there.

Amario Dominguez III was only 6 months old when he was shot in the head in Oklahoma City in August.