Violent Crime News

Supporters of Edmond soldier Michael Behenna are amassing an online army to win him a new trial in the shooting death of an Iraqi detainee.

Cutting instruments, needles, pills, dark clothing and catnip were among the items seized from the family of a South Florida teenager while police investigated the deaths of more than a dozen cats in two neighborhoods, according to documents released Friday.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested after an Ottawa woman died in an apparent shooting.

The federal appeals court in Atlanta has turned down a bid for a new trial by a man convicted of the shooting death of a Birmingham woman in 1992.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. A 22-year-old man convicted of gunning down a newspaper circulation manager in Sacramento during a robbery attempt has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.

An argument earlier in the day between teens from rival neighborhoods had Jason Broom worried as he stood in a pothole-riddled parking lot pondering his next move.

A Kansas City, Mo., man has been indicted in the March killing of his ex-girlfriend, her boyfriend and her two young nephews.

Lawyers for a man accused of killing his ex-wife 22 years ago asked the judge to consider extending a ban on the use of electronic devices at the murder trial to the Boulder County district attorney himself.

Officer Murrill McLean has been fired for the June 8 shooting of a dachshund on Berman Drive, according to a news release from Danville Police Chief Philip Broadfoot.

New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi says he watched his cohort James "Whitey" Bulger strangle Flemmi's 26-year-old-girlfriend. Flemmi says that in 1981, he lured Debra Davis to a vacant home where Bulger was waiting.

A Boston teenager prosecutors say was placed at the scene of a fatal shooting because he was wearing an electronic monitoring device has been ordered held without bail.

A Manchester man has been charged with murder in last week's fatal shooting at a candlelight vigil for a homicide victim.

HELENA, Mont. - A California jury has acquitted former University of Montana cornerback Jimmy Wilson of homicide charges for the June 2007 shooting death of his aunt's boyfriend.

Lexington police say a robbery suspect has died after a shootout with two officers at a gas station.

Police have arrested two Hartford men in connection with the 2006 fatal shooting of a 14-year-old while he was sleeping in his bed.

The man accused of killing an Arkansas television anchorwoman will appear for a competency court hearing Thursday.

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Attorneys for a McCurtain County man scheduled to die Thursday for killing two campers in southern Oklahoma have filed a motion seeking to spare their client's life.

Police say a 22-year-old man who already has a long criminal record and was out of jail awaiting trial on a sex charge killed a 15-year-old boy last month under an Interstate 26 bridge in Charleston.

Prosecutors say murder suspect John Delling will plead guilty to killing University of Idaho student David Boss.

A man accused of shooting to death his girlfriend and 2-year-old son Monday in Pennsylvania was arrested late last night at a gas station on High Street.