violent crime

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Albuquerque man accused of opening fire during a road rage dispute and killing a 4-year-old girl pleaded not guilty Frida...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "NCIS" actress Pauley Perrette says she was "alone, terrified and trapped" when a man attacked her and threatened to kill her as sh...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Security camera footage of a deadly Israeli arrest raid in a West Bank hospital on Thursday gave a rare glimpse into the murky underc...

LONDON (AP) — A British woman who pretended to be a man to have sex with a female friend has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assaul...

LONDON (AP) — The leader of a Maoist cult went on trial in London on Thursday accused of imprisoning and sexually assaulting his followers and abusing...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man says he was frightened into pleading guilty for a murder he didn't commit after police dangled him off a bridge three dec...

MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Two men were hospitalized with stab wounds following an argument at a party at the New Jersey home of rapper RZA. Auth...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities rescued several hundred migrants from the Aegean Sea off eastern Greek islands in relatively calm waters on Saturday...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — There was no outward warning that a quiet 18-year-old would burst into a university classroom and slash fellow students over a di...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana investigators are combing through evidence in the shooting death earlier this week of a 6-year-old autistic boy after aut...

FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the wife and one of the sons of an Illinois police officer who they say killed himself after embez...

MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — After 12 hours of examining forensics in a shooting that left a 6-year-old boy dead, Louisiana investigators will meet with the...

OAKLAND, Maine (AP) — Two women and a man were shot to death inside a house in central Maine, and the gunman's body was found outside, police said Thu...

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — A construction worker who ran into a California university classroom to break up what he thought was a fight was hailed as a her...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The execution of a Missouri man was in limbo Wednesday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the lethal injection short...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — A woman accused of running a red light and purposely driving around a barricade and over a police motorcycle before crashing ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Charged with murder in the car-chase death of a Georgia sheriff, Jim Edward Lowery used a jail transfer to stage a dramatic escap...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The son of a Connecticut couple whose remains were found months after they vanished has made his first court appearance on tw...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man who killed three people during a shooting rampage on the streets of Colorado Springs gave no indication he was ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The crime was stunningly gruesome: three convenience store workers in central Missouri beaten to death with a claw hammer during a ro...