Violent Crime News

Gerry Leone was the district attorney for Middlesex County in Massachusetts when three people were murdered in a house in the Boston suburb of Waltham.

Ball Ground Woman Charged with Killing Father - Canton-Sixes Patch A Ball Ground woman has been arrested for allegedly murdering her father after Cherokee County sheriff's deputies discovered his decomposed body inside the home.

Updated at 11:45 a.m. Livingston County Prosecutor William Vailliencourt confirmed that he has filed new charges in the shooting death of Charles Kimball.

Patrick Ward appears in the courtroom at the Boulder County Jail on Thursday. He was charged with two counts of vehicular homicide in the weekend crash in Lyons that killed a Boulder cyclist.

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, said Thursday that they're looking into whether there's a connection between the recent killings of a university professor and his wife and two unsolved area homicides.

Hamilton police have seized an incinerator found on the property of a man accused of killing a 32-year-old father after a test drive.

The 28-year-old son of a Florida fertility doctor has been charged by federal authorities with tricking his girlfriend into taking a pill used to induce labor and cause an abortion, killing the fetus she was carrying.

HONOLULU - A jury on Thursday convicted a Wahiawa man of second-degree murder and other charges in a 2011 shooting rampage through Honolulu that killed a mother of 10 and wounded two other people.

Norma Sawyer, 84, of Bridgewater, was driving a Dodge Neon when she collided with a box truck owned by Carroll Tire of Lebanon, N.H. A suburban New York man is expected to be arraigned in a Vermont courtroom on a charge that he killed his wife almost two decades ago.

Bond was set at $5 million today for Hernandez Warren, charged with the 1984 murder of Gloria Pointer.

A second suspect has been arrested in the shooting that injured 20 people at a parade on Mother's Day, police said Thursday afternoon.

Federal authorities say the son of a Tampa-area fertility doctor is accused of tricking his girlfriend into taking an abortion drug to kill her unborn child.

In this June 12, 2013 file photo, Constance Malcolm and Frank Graham, parents of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham, weep during the arraignment of New York City Police Dept.

Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell's conviction has reignited the bitter U.S. debate over abortion.

The suspect in a Mother's Day parade shooting that left 19 people wounded in New Orleans was taken into custody Wednesday night, police said.

The murder case will proceed against Pedro Hernandez -- accused of killing 6-year-old Etan Patz, who disappeared on his way to a New York City school bus stop in 1979 -- after a motion to dismiss the case was denied Wednesday, a court official said.

A man charged in the shooting deaths of two young girls near Weleetka and the death of his 23-year-old girlfriend wants a judge to combine the separate cases so he can be tried for all three deaths at once.

An Ohio murder trial that hinges on whether a dying, paralyzed man identified his shooter by blinking his eyes went to the jury on Tuesday, and initial deliberations failed to produce a verdict.

Arctic states have agreed to let nations that are located nowhere near the Earth's north to become observers to their diplomatic council.

A woman charged with shooting and killing her two young children and seriously wounding her husband at their northwestern South Carolina home told a nurse at the hospital she wanted to kill herself, but just couldn't do it, according to arrest warrants.