Violent Crime News

An Arizona man on trial for sending his 16-year-old nephew into a busy intersection last summer with a fake grenade launcher was convicted Monday of endangering the teen's life and carrying out a terrorism hoax.

Jurors in the trial of a 79-year-old man charged with the decades-old slayings of four women in Northern California wiped tears from their eyes on Monday, as a prosecutor showed graphic images of the victims' bodies and described how they were discovered.

The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.

After a deadly mass shooting that raged through the Santa Monica, an unrelated, fatal gang-related shooting occurred nearby, community members took to the streets on Sunday to call for peace.

A September trial has been scheduled for a former trucker who's been ruled mentally competent for a murder trial in Des Moines.

End ie2013-contentLeft--> An FIR has been lodged against son of a local SP leader and his aide on charges of rape and murder of a woman in Rajpura area, police said today.

A young boy was shot as he slept in his bed during a drive-by shooting early Sunday off Adeline Street, authorities said.

Gun violence flared over the Father's Day weekend in Chicago. At least seven people died and 30 others wounded in shootings across the city, authorities said.

Residents are anxious to return to the scene of Colorado's most destructive wildfire but authorities say it's still not safe.

Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal resource workers.

Adding to the growing list of sexual crimes in West Bengal, a teenage girl's decomposed body was found by locals in the jute field of Behrampore, Murshidabad, after a strong stench was detected on Saturday.

Sarah Murnaghan Gets New Lungs : After a fight to get on the adult transplant list, a 10-year-old Newtown Square girl got the new lungs she desperately needed to survive.

One of the FBI's Most Wanted for more than a decade, James "Whitey" Bulger went on trial this week.

Four shootings in less than an hour rocked the Nebraska city of Omaha on Saturday afternoon, a violent string of events that ended with one suspected gunman dead and several other people injured, police said.

Police have charged an Ankeny father after they say he shot his 18-year-old daughter to death in the apartment they shared.

Behind the scenes, the drama unfolding at one of the nation's largest district attorney's offices is more complex, with an upcoming election and opponents threatening to unseat the longtime leader, a review of dozens of cases and a federal lawsuit by a man who was wrongfully convicted.

The man arrested after a Wednesday high speed chase at Mosinee has now been formally charged with murder in Eau Claire County.

A man who shot four homeless people at a Seattle bus shelter two years ago, killing one with a shot to the head, attempted to storm out of the courtroom during his sentencing in King County Superior Court Friday.

Two men have been charged in the shooting death of a 27-year-old man who was attending a Detroit anti-violence vigil.

Although six months have passed since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., the father of slain first grade teacher Lauren Rousseau says life hasn't gotten any easier, it's just been more painful.