The judge overseeing the murder trial of accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols said Thursday he won't step down from the case, but will ask another judge to consider a defense request to remove him.
As an African-American teenager in Louisiana, Keith Beauchamp tried interracial dating -- behavior that prompted his parents to tell him the grisly tale of Emmett Till, who was murdered for whistling at a white woman.
Two or three people are killed each day by others in Los Angeles County. Most of them died anonymously until Jill Leovy and her blog, The Homicide Report, came along.
David Tarloff, the man accused of hacking a Manhattan therapist to death with a meat cleaver, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in Manhattan District Court on Friday.
Baltimore ended the year with the city's highest murder rate in eight years, despite a new police commissioner's modest success in slowing the spike in homicides
Mark Hacking is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Lori, in Salt Lake City. Scott Peterson is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Laci, in Modesto, California. Meanwhile, as their cases play out before a national audience, countless other husbands and boyfriends stand accused of the same crime in courtrooms across the country.
The judge overseeing the murder trial of accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols said Thursday he won't step down from the case, but will ask another judge to consider a defense request to remove him.
As an African-American teenager in Louisiana, Keith Beauchamp tried interracial dating -- behavior that prompted his parents to tell him the grisly tale of Emmett Till, who was murdered for whistling at a white woman.
Two or three people are killed each day by others in Los Angeles County. Most of them died anonymously until Jill Leovy and her blog, The Homicide Report, came along.
David Tarloff, the man accused of hacking a Manhattan therapist to death with a meat cleaver, was indicted on a charge of first-degree murder in Manhattan District Court on Friday.
Baltimore ended the year with the city's highest murder rate in eight years, despite a new police commissioner's modest success in slowing the spike in homicides
Mark Hacking is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Lori, in Salt Lake City. Scott Peterson is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Laci, in Modesto, California. Meanwhile, as their cases play out before a national audience, countless other husbands and boyfriends stand accused of the same crime in courtrooms across the country.
Confident that they have proven intent to kill, Michigan prosecutors rested their case in the murder trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian after playing the videotape of Thomas Youk's death and calling the medical examiner and investigators in the case.
New York City is on course to mark the fewest homicides since records have been kept, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced Wednesday.
A Texas couple charged with killing the little girl known as "Baby Grace" now face capital murder charges, after a Texas grand jury upgraded the charges on Wednesday.
The accused in the Madrid train bombing are scheduled to hear the verdicts and sentencing on Wednesday morning. All of the 28 defendants are men except for one Spanish woman. All the defendants have pleaded not guilty during the trial.
Two Marines charged in connection with the killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will face courts martial, the commanding general overseeing the case said Friday.
Father Bill Terry of St. Anna's Episcopal Church in New Orleans wants everyone to know what's happening in New Orleans: too many murders with too few people held accountable.
A Marine accused of murdering Iraqi civilians, including children, in the town of Haditha should have all charges dropped against him because of weak evidence, an official said
A 19-year-old man has confessed to killing a prominent African-American journalist, who was gunned down Thursday as he walked to work, Oakland police told CNN on Saturday.
A Marine was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison after being convicted of unpremeditated murder and other charges in connection with the death of a civilian in Hamdaniya, Iraq, last year.
Raids at an Oakland, California, bakery and three homes produced evidence that links the business to the killings of a prominent African-American journalist and two other people, police said.
Pakistan World Cup cricket coach Bob Woolmer died from natural causes and was not strangled as police earlier concluded, the Jamaican police commissioner said
DNA evidence ties Lorenzo Gilyard to a series of murdered women and girls, whose strangled, shoeless bodies were dumped in secluded spots around the city, a prosecutor told a judge Monday as Gilyard's trial began.
A man accused of killing and dismembering his wife and hiding some of her remains in their Detroit-area home has given a "lengthy confession" to police, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said Monday.
Anna Nicole Smith spent much of her life in front of the cameras, and more pictures of the model/reality star are likely to surface now that she's dead. But a law passed after a race car driver's death should ensure that her autopsy photos are never published.
The Orleans Parish coroner said Thursday he cannot classify as homicides the deaths of four patients who died at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
A lawyer for Neil Entwistle, the British man accused of killing his American wife and baby daughter, asked a judge to dismiss the charges, saying prosecutors misrepresented the quality of their DNA evidence.
A fourth soldier from the 101st Airborne Division was charged Wednesday in connection with the shooting deaths of three detainees during an operation in Salaheddin province in May, the military said.
Three members of the 101st Airborne Division have been charged with murder in the May shooting deaths of three Iraqi prisoners, the U.S. military announced Monday.
A 49-year-old woman who died after riding on Walt Disney World's "Mission: Space" ride suffered a stroke linked to her high blood pressure, according to preliminary autopsy results released Friday by the Orange County medical examiner.
It was the tragedy that stunned Australia a decade ago: 35 innocent men, women and children gunned down by a disturbed young man in the forbiddingly beautiful setting of Port Arthur, an isolated 19th century prison on the island of Tasmania.
Death row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams, a founder of the Crips street gang who has worked from behind bars to quell gang violence, has asked California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare his life. The request was denied and he will be put to death shortly after midnight.
The mother of a 16-year-old charged in the brutal slaying of an attorney's wife was arrested Thursday on a charge of accessory to murder for allegedly telling her son not to come home because police had blocked off the neighborhood following the killing.
Jurors found a self-proclaimed Las Vegas hit man guilty of murder Tuesday, citing a taped 911 call, not the man's cryptic jailhouse journal, as the most incriminating piece of evidence.
Prosecutors called Jim Holden a ruthless hit man who killed a man "execution style" during opening statements in Holden's murder trial. They then used his own words to emphasize their point.
The killer of a law school coed 36 years ago demonstrated a sense of "compassion" for his victim that distinguishes him from a serial killer who targeted young women during the same time period, an investigator testified at the murder trial of a retired nurse.
A convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing two young Idaho children was charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree murder for the killings of their mother, older brother and their mother's boyfriend.
A convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping an 8-year-old Idaho girl will be charged Tuesday with three counts of first-degree murder, the prosecutor in the case said Monday.
The autopsy of Terri Schiavo found no evidence that the severely brain-damaged woman was strangled or abused and that no amount of therapy would have reversed her condition, a medical examiner said Wednesday.
A federal jury in Virginia Tuesday convicted two members of a violent street gang in the slaying of a female gang member who had been a government informant.
A Florida judge ordered a convicted sex offender held without bond Monday on first-degree murder charges in the death of 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde.
A convicted sex offender facing capital murder charges in the killing of a 9-year-old Florida girl told investigators he buried her alive, law enforcement sources told CNN Friday night.
The fate of Robert Blake is now in the hands of five men and seven women who began deliberating late last week in the 71-year-old actor's murder trial.
Investigators still don't know who is responsible for the murder of a Chicago judge's husband and mother on Monday, but white supremacist Web sites are applauding the killings.
Dennis Rader, 59, of Park City, Kansas, has been arrested in connection with Wichita's BTK serial killings, Wichita Lt. Ken Landwehr, commander of the task force investigating the case, announced Saturday.
The daughter of the man whom Wichita authorities arrested in the notorious BTK serial killings approached police with her suspicions and voluntarily gave them a blood sample, Wichita television station KAKE-TV reported Saturday night.
Calling himself a "victim of the media and circumstance," a Long Island electrician at the heart of a sensational murder case told the children of the millionaire he was convicted of killing that he will devote his life to proving his innocence.
A physician testified in late December in the murder trial of actor Robert Blake that he heard and watched the actor crying out for assistance on the night his wife was shot to death, but he did not offer aid because he feared for his safety and did not perceive the actor's pleas to be genuine.
Two weeks ago, Kansas resident Lisa Montgomery reportedly cut open a pregnant woman's womb and stole her baby. The baby's mother died of her injuries, and Montgomery was arrested a few days later.
Action on a jury's recommendation to kill Scott Peterson by lethal injection for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, could be decades away in the state that has more than 600 people on death row.
The double murder trial for Scott Peterson, who's accused of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, was adjourned early Tuesday after an earthquake rumbled through the region, shaking jurors and the judge.
Britain's biggest electronics chain, Dixons, has pulled the violent video game "Manhunt" from its shops after claims it sparked the murder of a 14-year-old boy by a friend.
Police have launched a murder inquiry after a man found the dismembered remains of his daughter-in-law inside his son's refrigerator while looking for milk, according to police and newspaper reports.
Two days after a convicted sex offender confessed to killing two women in his apartment building, police said Thursday they were carrying out additional searches and believed they could find more bodies.
About four decades ago authorities in Mississippi ended their investigation into the brutal murders of three civil rights workers who had helped register black voters as a part of the 1964 "Freedom Summer." No one was ever charged with their murders.
A former nurse accused of murdering dozens of patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals over nearly two decades pleaded guilty Thursday to 13 counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
A former nurse who prosecutors say has confessed to killing dozens of patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals is expected to plead guilty to murder charges Thursday morning.
A former nurse who prosecutors say has confessed to killing dozens of patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospitals is expected to plead guilty to murder charges in a deal that would spare him from the death penalty, according to a prosecutor's spokesman.
When Scott Shanahan disappeared one summer day in 2002, leaving his pregnant wife Dixie and their two kids behind, no one in Defiance, Iowa, seemed to give it much thought.
On the day he was supposed to begin his senior year of high school, Martin Tankleff's life suddenly veered off course. Waking at 6:10 A.M. in his bedroom in Belle Terre, N.Y., a wealthy town on Lon...
Lee Ann Reidel smiled nearly every time she was escorted into the courtroom during her six-week murder-for-hire trial, but she cried uncontrollably Friday when a jury pronounced her guilty on all counts.
Shortly before dawn on a rainy morning this past summer, Harvey Jay Brown drove to an empty parking lot near his Tampa apartment, where he knew he'd be alone. Dressed in a T-shirt and sweatpants, h...
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