Violent Crime News

Olympian Oscar Pistorius is due in court on June 4 -- the world's first view of him since he was granted bail on Feb.

The Journal News reports that three men were arrested Friday in the killing of 26-year-old Christopher Foe on May 19.

A judge says the pastor of an Oklahoma City church must stand trial in the shooting death of his son-in-law. Fifty-3-year old Michael Elder is charged in the death of 27-year-old Gary Davidson last February.

A man wanted for killing his girlfriend's sister after the three of them got into a fight at a Columbia nightclub has turned himself in.

Investigators say a former doctor going on trial this fall in Ohio raped a woman who was nine months pregnant, then killed her by injecting her with heroin.

Claude Alexander Allen III , 20, the son of former President George W. Bush 's senior domestic policy adviser, Claude A. Allen , was arrested Friday in Maryland for allegedly killing a man with a hatchet, reports Raw Story.

Matthew David Stewart, 39, was found dead in his Weber County Jail cell this morning, according to a family statement and law enforcement sources.

The Daily Journal newspaper in Park Hills reports that 37-year-old Robin Lucas of rural Bonne Terre pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder.

A Peninsula real estate mogul was found guilty Thursday of murdering his wife in their mansion to collect a $30 million insurance policy as creditors closed in on his crumbling empire.

A former police officer, accused of killing two people during a robbery at an east Tennessee pharmacy, gunned down his victims after they complied with his demands for painkillers, a prosecutor said Friday.

In this April 5, 2013 file photo, a Logan County Sheriff's deputy walks Christopher Harris into the Logan County Courthouse in Lincoln, Ill.

An Army veteran charged with killing a police officer and wounding five others in a shootout during a marijuana raid was found dead at Weber County jail, the veteran's father said Friday.

A suburban Chicago couple accused in the death of their 1-year-old son has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges.

A man from the Walnut Park neighborhood has been convicted of killing a man following a road-rage incident in 2011.

Family, friends and neighbors have many unanswered questions about the shooting death of 22-year-old Julian Dawkins, who was killed Wednesday in his Alexandria neighborhood.

A southwestern Idaho man charged with two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon following a shooting that killed a man and injured a woman failed to show up at a plea hearing.

However Anthony Weiner does when the polls close, he's certain to add drama to the most competitive New York City mayor's race in more than a decade.

Authorities in St. Paul say they've recovered the body of a child missing since a rockslide killed a classmate and left two others injured at a park along the Mississippi River.

Authorities say two men have been charged in six killings, including a toddler and unborn baby, near the Tennessee-Alabama border last fall during a dispute over drug dealing.

A North Texas man has been convicted of murder in the death of a teenager whose body was dumped in a rock pit in 1984.