46 min ago | KMIZ
Guns, drugs in new Trayvon Martin evidence
Items taken from Trayvon Martin's cell phone -- including a text-message discussion of drug use and pictures of a gun and marijuana plants -- are among new details released Thursday by attorneys for the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of killing him without provocation 14 months ago.
46 min ago | Tri-cityherald.com
Dallas man gets death for drowning 2 sons in creek
The Dallas County jury took about 3 1/2 hours to sentence Naim Rasool Muhammad. The same jury had taken less than 10 minutes to find Muhammad guilty of capital murder last week after hearing testimony from the mother of the two drowned boys, 5-year-old Naim and 3-year-old Elijah.
46 min ago | WAFF-TV Huntsville
Arrest made in fatal shooting in Memphis
The Commercial Appeal reports that 21-year-old Setric Hall has been charged with second-degree murder, aggravated assault, attempted second-degree murder and using a firearm during a felony.
1 hr ago | Tri-cityherald.com
Prosecutor: IPad theft defendants ambushed victim
Michael Samual Solid and Jacob "Jake" Dismont stood in shackles before a judge as Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Robert Daskas cited convenience store video he said shows Solid and Dismont planning the fatal robbery.
3 hrs ago | The Daily News Journal
Jodi Arias jury reconvenes for life-or-death decision
A Maricopa County Court jury reconvened Thursday to continue deliberations that will determine whether Jodi Arias serves life in prison or is executed for killing her sometime lover five years ago.
7 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area
Teenager accused of killing two East Bay girls must face jury, judge...
Diantay Powell, 18, pleaded not guilty to killing two teenage girls during an adolescent lovers' quarrel last year, but two close friends and one acquaintance all said he did it, evidence presented during a preliminary hearing revealed.
7 hrs ago | Clover Herald
Defense opens for SC man accused of killing 2
Defense attorneys are to present their case for a South Carolina man charged with killing his wife and his colleague in a sports gambling ring.
9 hrs ago | WTAQ-AM Green Bay
Lawyers in Colorado shooting case to challenge ins...
Public defenders representing James Holmes, accused of killing 12 moviegoers in Colorado last summer, will return to court on Thursday to challenge the state's insanity defense law in a bid to try to avoid the death penalty for their client.
9 hrs ago | WHEC-TV Rochester
Capital defender requested in NY rape, murder
The attorney for a man charged with raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother in an upstate New York carjacking wants to add an expert on death penalty cases to the defense team in case federal prosecutors bring more charges and seek his execution.
9 hrs ago | KNDO
Gang member arrested in Yakima shooting
A 19-year-old gang member with a previous conviction for a drive-by shooting was arrested Wednesday in Wapato and accused of shooting at four members of a family in Yakima.
11 hrs ago | The Macon Telegraph
Police: Man who killed wife, self also raped teen
The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported a Hamilton County Sheriff's Office affidavit stated 34-year-old Terry Lee Releford duct taped the teen and held a gun on her while assaulting her.
14 hrs ago | Merced Sun-Star
Testimony: Couple accused in killing had baby items
After a one week hiatus, testimony resumed Monday in the murder trial of accused killers Maria Teresa Ceja Robles and Jose Augustine Velarde.
Teen pleads not guilty in deaths of Ohio brothers
Michael Aaron Fay entered the pleas during an arraignment Tuesday in Putnam County Juvenile Court.
High Court overturns anonymity order on Gillam Street child killer murderer
THE High Court has overturned an order gagging the press from naming Gillam Street killer David McGreavy, who murdered three children in Worcester in 1973.
Official: Man killed by FBI tied to killings
Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple homicide outside Boston, along with a Chechen killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.
Video: 'Dr. G' takes stand in College Park boyfriend killing case
Chief Medical Examiner Jan Garavaglia took the stand in the Caryn Kelley trial Wednesday morning.
Judge seals affidavit of Maine man in teen's death
Police laid out their case Wednesday against a man accused of killing a 15-year-old girl whose body was found in a wooded area miles from her home, but the details remained hidden from public view after a judge sealed a crucial affidavit at the request of the suspect's lawyer.
NY funeral for student accidentally shot by police
Weeping filled a church Wednesday during a funeral for a Hofstra University student who was accidentally shot by police responding to a Long Island home invasion, with friends describing her fearlessness and love of life , riding bikes, climbing trees, going to more concerts than they could count.
Police killer Dale Cregan pleads guilty to murders of rival and dad in gun and grenade attacks
THE 29-year-old denied murdering father and son David and Mark Short but today changed his plea on the eve of his barrister's closing speech.
Police arrest suspected gunman in Sheraden murder
Federal authorities said a suspect wanted in the shooting death of a man pulled off a western Pennsylvania party bus has been taken into custody.