A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become "too Westernized."
An Iraqi man accused of running down his daughter in Arizona because she had become "too Westernized" is being held on two counts of aggravated assault, police said Saturday.
A second man was arrested Tuesday evening in the anti-gay beating of a man in Queens, New York, police said.
A Maryland mother faces assault charges for allegedly ordering a group of teens to beat up a 14-year-old who was stabbed in the ensuing melee, Baltimore County police said Friday.
Misdemeanor assault charges have been dropped against "24" star Kiefer Sutherland in a head-butting incident at a New York City nightclub, according to Alicia Maxey Greene, spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
A plea deal has been reached in the assault case against singer Chris Brown, defense attorney Mark Geragos said in a hearing Monday.
A 23-year-old medical student pleaded not guilty Monday to an indictment alleging first-degree murder charge in a killing tied to Craigslist.
A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted a 23-year-old medical student on seven counts, including first-degree murder, in the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels.
Four minor boys are facing felony assault charges after a 13-year-old boy accused them of sexually assaulting him in the locker room of a Tampa, Florida, middle school, authorities said Friday.
A medical student accused of killing a masseuse in a Boston, Massachusetts, hotel room will be charged in a hotel assault in Rhode Island, the state attorney general said Monday.
A 20-year-old woman from Iraq has died in an Arizona hospital, nearly two weeks after her father, police say, ran her over with a car because she had become "too Westernized."
An Iraqi man accused of running down his daughter in Arizona because she had become "too Westernized" is being held on two counts of aggravated assault, police said Saturday.
A second man was arrested Tuesday evening in the anti-gay beating of a man in Queens, New York, police said.
A Maryland mother faces assault charges for allegedly ordering a group of teens to beat up a 14-year-old who was stabbed in the ensuing melee, Baltimore County police said Friday.
Misdemeanor assault charges have been dropped against "24" star Kiefer Sutherland in a head-butting incident at a New York City nightclub, according to Alicia Maxey Greene, spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney's office.
A plea deal has been reached in the assault case against singer Chris Brown, defense attorney Mark Geragos said in a hearing Monday.
A 23-year-old medical student pleaded not guilty Monday to an indictment alleging first-degree murder charge in a killing tied to Craigslist.
A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted a 23-year-old medical student on seven counts, including first-degree murder, in the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels.
Four minor boys are facing felony assault charges after a 13-year-old boy accused them of sexually assaulting him in the locker room of a Tampa, Florida, middle school, authorities said Friday.
A medical student accused of killing a masseuse in a Boston, Massachusetts, hotel room will be charged in a hotel assault in Rhode Island, the state attorney general said Monday.
Singer Chris Brown pleaded not guilty to both charges in the felony assault case against him Monday afternoon.
The suspect accused of killing a minister at an Illinois church had marked the day of the attack as a "day of death" or "death day" in a planning book, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
The newest star of Bravo's New York City series is charged with misdemeanor assault
Adnan Ghalib faces felonies after allegedly smashing his car into a man serving a restraining order
An ex-convict who thought he was being robbed gunned down a 12-year-old trick-or-treater, spraying nearly 30 rounds with an assault rifle from inside his home after hearing a knock on the door
Two investigators testified Friday that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick shoved one of them into the other and a made racial remark while they were trying to deliver a subpoena to one of the mayor's friends
A Turks and Caicos judge says Carl Blonsky must stay behind bars until his trial Aug. 19
They face jail terms in a brawl in the Caribbean involving an America's Next Top Model contestant
The woman who accused the country singer has been charged with filing a false report
"I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am," the rapper says
He had been dead for less than nine hours, the victim of an apparent break-in gone awry at his $900,000 home in a Miami suburb, when The Washington Post put up a column on its website under the headline taylor's death is tragic but not surprising. Portions of the Nov. 27 column were as jarring as the headline, particularly the passage, "Could anyone honestly say they never saw this coming? You'd have to be blind not to consider Taylor's checkered past."
Mychal Bell, the 17-year-old black teenager whose arrest and detention led to the "Jena 6" protests, has agreed to a plea deal that could lead to his release by June, his lawyer said Monday.
Rapper and reality-TV mainstay Da Brat has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault after a fight early Thursday morning at a bar outside Atlanta, according to reports.
Using a Facebook profile, police arrested a suspect in an attack on the Georgetown University campus.
Former football star O.J. Simpson will be held without bail after his arrest on robbery and assault charges, police announced late Sunday.
O.J. Simpson was arrested Sunday and ordered to be held without bail in connection with an alleged armed robbery involving sports memorabilia that took place Thursday night in a Las Vegas hotel, according to police in the gaming capital.
New Jersey law enforcement was ordered Wednesday to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is determined to be an illegal immigrant.
Rapper Foxy Brown turned herself in Tuesday to face charges that she hit her Brooklyn neighbor with her Blackberry cell phone last month, ABC News is reporting.
Three Atlanta, Georgia, police officers were indicted Thursday -- two on felony murder charges -- in the shooting death of an elderly woman during a botched drug raid on Thanksgiving eve.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The trial for Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Jackson, accused of shooting a gun during a fight at a strip club, was shifted from Thursday to May 10.
Hip-hop musician and actor Busta Rhymes is going to trial to face misdemeanor assault charges in two separate incidents.
The downtrodden Sacramento Kings travel to the Palace of Auburn Hills on Saturday night to play the suddenly somnolent Detroit Pistons in what should be, oh, the 77th-most interesting thing going on in your world that day.
A Duke University lacrosse player charged with raping an exotic dancer at a team party will face trial in Washington in an unrelated assault case.
Moments before their trial was to begin, five white South Carolina youths admitted their roles in a mob attack on a black teen and received prison sentences from a judge who called their actions "despicable" and "cowardly."
The U.S. violent crime rate declined 2.2 percent last year, continuing a decade-long downward trend in serious offenses, the FBI said Monday.
Prosecutors said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty in the state case against courthouse shooting suspect Brian G. Nichols.
A registered sex offender jailed on an assault charge was being questioned in the disappearance of a 13-year-old Florida girl missing since the weekend, the Hillsborough County sheriff said late Wednesday afternoon.
A Georgia jury acquitted a former beauty queen of murder in the fatal shooting of her boyfriend outside the home of another woman.
One of the U.S. soldiers charged in the Iraq prison abuse scandal has reached agreement on a plea deal with U.S. military officials, according to the attorney for the soldier.
Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest has been suspended for the rest of the season for fighting with fans after an NBA game against the Detroit Pistons ended with a brawl in the stands.
Two suburban Atlanta schoolgirls accused of using a poisoned cake to sicken more than a dozen classmates are scheduled to appear before a juvenile court judge on assault charges Friday.
Violent crime in the United States dropped 3 percent last year, continuing the downward trend in the nation's crime rate over the past decade, the FBI announced Monday.
Three U.S. Navy SEALs have been charged with maltreating an Iraqi detainee who died after he was turned over to the U.S. Army in Mosul in April 2004, the Navy said Friday.
A federal judge agreed Wednesday to set up procedures to help keep secret what the CIA may have been doing in the mountains of Afghanistan when one of its independent contractors allegedly beat a detainee who died a day later.
Rebel rocker and courtroom fashion plate Courtney Love is expected to surrender to Los Angeles authorities Friday to face new charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
The father of teenage actress Lindsay Lohan has been charged with assaulting a relative at a family gathering.
The wife of a U.S. senator was charged with simple assault Wednesday following an incident in which she allegedly struck another woman while loading items into her car at a garden store.
The judge in Kobe Bryant's sexual assault case Tuesday reaffirmed his earlier decision not to limit the scope of questioning about the sexual history of the woman who says the NBA star raped her.
A 17-year-old cadet at an all-male military academy outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged with sexual assault on a fellow student and other forms of abuse on two others.
Police will question Sir Paul McCartney about a scuffle that broke out when the former Beatle went to see illusionist David Blaine in his glass box in London, reports say.
THERE IS NO SAFE PLACE ANYMORE. That fearful message is driven home by the endless rat-a-tat-tat of pointless carnage that marks us as one of the world's most violent societies. Listen to the grim ...
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |

