Violent Crime News

Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new memoir will include a stop at Fort Hood to benefit the victims of the shooting rampage and their families.

Two men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in a shootout in his garage, North Las Vegas police said.

A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday.

A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday.

The fate of a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery is in the hands of Gov.

An Ohio man has been found not guilty of homicide by child abuse in the 2007 death of his daughter in South Carolina.

A man is blaming his dog for his wife's shooting death in San Luis Obispo County.

Authorities have arrested a fugitive wanted in three San Francisco Bay area murders after his case was featured on "America's Most Wanted." Twenty-five-year-old Rafael Campbell was wanted in the fatal shooting of a Berkeley man and the deaths of two others who were struck by the alleged getaway car on May 16.

Jurors are deciding the case of a Fort Carson soldier accused of killing two people in a drive-by shooting.

A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death despite pleas from the boy and his mother, a relative said.

A grand jury indicted a 15-year-old girl on a first-degree murder charge in the "vicious" killing of her 9-year-old neighbor in Missouri.

The nonprofit Cleveland Rape Crisis Center has set up a hot line in hopes of hearing from any surviving victims of Anthony Sowell , who lived among the remains of at least 11 people, all black women, most of them disadvantaged, stashed around his house and yard.

Curtis Martin III has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a woman whose body was found in Berkeley on Friday, Nov.

A condemned killer who prosecutors said had been faking mental illness to avoid execution won a reprieve from a federal judge less than two hours before he could have been taken to the Texas death chamber Tuesday evening.

A person is being questioned in the shooting deaths of a South Carolina woman and her 4-year-old son at their home.

Prosecutors in western Missouri filed 15 additional sex charges against a family already accused of sexually abusing children as a newly released search warrant claims some of the suspects forced their victims to help kill and bury a man in 1988.

This undated photo provided by Dennis Hof, shows Brooke Phillips. On Friday, Nov.

Two Clanton men are scheduled to go on trial for murder this week in the 2006 shooting death of a 20-year-old Clanton man.

The trial of a Des Moines man accused of killing his wife and another man in Marshall County last fall is scheduled to start.

A judge has sentenced John Ludwig Jr. to three years of probation and community service after the Greenville entrepreneur pleaded guilty this morning to crashing his speeding Maserati through a Furman-area home and killing the homeowner inside last spring.