A killer who argued that Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country's second-busiest death chamber.
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.
A convicted South Florida child molester who has avoided serving a 43-year prison sentence may soon be taken back into custody, according to a court document filed Thursday afternoon.
A former police officer and a neighbor said Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who now has five dead spouses tried to hire them to kill her fourth husband more than two decades ago.
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: A driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left.
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
Polygamous sects that have spread throughout the United States and beyond are "a form of organized crime," largely unchecked by law enforcement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.
For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet.
Hate crimes in Los Angeles County soared last year to their highest mark in five years even as overall crime dropped across the region, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press.
After 58 years, historians and journalists will have a chance to examine the secret grand jury testimony of witnesses in the espionage case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
A killer who argued that Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional was executed Thursday after a federal appeals court upheld the primary method of capital punishment in the country's second-busiest death chamber.
A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.
A convicted South Florida child molester who has avoided serving a 43-year prison sentence may soon be taken back into custody, according to a court document filed Thursday afternoon.
A former police officer and a neighbor said Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who now has five dead spouses tried to hire them to kill her fourth husband more than two decades ago.
The scene repeats itself daily on city streets: A driver gets stuck bumper to bumper, blocking an intersection and preventing another car from turning left.
At precisely 100 years of age, the FBI is learning new tricks. It has no choice.
Polygamous sects that have spread throughout the United States and beyond are "a form of organized crime," largely unchecked by law enforcement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.
For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet.
Hate crimes in Los Angeles County soared last year to their highest mark in five years even as overall crime dropped across the region, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press.
After 58 years, historians and journalists will have a chance to examine the secret grand jury testimony of witnesses in the espionage case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Texas executed a man Wednesday who was convicted of killing a woman and her child, while Mississippi put to death a man who took part in the fatal beating of another man.
Smugglers tried to use Hurricane Dolly as a cover in at least three attempts to move drugs or illegal aliens through Texas, border officials said Wednesday.
A baby boy police believe was deliberately cut from his mother's womb was released from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, hospital on Wednesday, a spokeswoman told CNN.
A Texas grand jury indicted polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs on sexual assault charges, and five of his followers also face a variety of charges, state Attorney General Greg Abbott said.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is accused of exchanging romantic text messages with more women, the latest in a scandal that has him fighting allegations of lying under oath about an intimate relationship with his former chief of staff.
The state Board of Regents has reopened its investigation into the University of Iowa's handling of an alleged rape by two of its football players.
A police officer shocked a handcuffed Baron "Scooter" Pikes nine times with a Taser after arresting him on a cocaine charge.
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was indicted in Texas on a count of child sexual assault, a first-degree felony. Five members of the sect also face charges.
When Atlanta police officers Bryan Ernest and Bernatt Collins get a burglary call, they know that the house they walk into will probably be stripped, right down to the materials inside the walls.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that the case of a missing 2-year-old is beginning to look like a homicide, and her mother is a person of interest, though she has not been charged.
Federal prosecutors have disbanded their criminal investigation into the financial dealings of the Rev. Al Sharpton and his Harlem civil rights group, the minister and his lawyers said Tuesday.
A longtime television newscaster was charged Monday with illegally accessing the e-mail of his glamorous former co-anchor, who suspected details of her social life were being leaked to gossip columnists.
Bill Day is a familiar face out under the San Antonio viaducts, where skinny addicts shoot drugs into their bruised arms.
A suburban South Carolina mother who admitted burning down four homes near her neighborhood has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison.
A cruise ship dancer who jumped 30 feet off a deck into San Diego Bay last weekend was killed by police after attacking an officer who had helped pull him onto a rescue boat, officials said Monday.
A New Jersey man who once claimed insanity was convicted Monday of a hate crime for accosting Nazi death camp survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel in a hotel elevator.
A Fort Bliss, Texas, soldier reported missing and possibly in danger was located by authorities Sunday after she was kidnapped and assaulted by her husband, El Paso, Texas, police said Monday.
A California mother of three arrested 32 years after she fled a Michigan prison on a drug conviction was charged Monday with escape.
Oklahoma authorities on Monday urged the public to help solve a murder mystery, playing a dramatic segment of a frantic 911 call from a relative who reported two girls had been found dead in a ditch.
A year ago, Dr. William Petit had a thriving medical practice. He lived in a comfortable colonial house adorned with flower gardens in an upscale Connecticut suburb with his wife and two daughters admired for their charitable works.
A real-life Hollywood drama featuring sex, lies and tons of money, is missing one essential: a tape.
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged in the slaying of an 18-year-old woman who was found with her uterus cut open and her fetus removed, authorities said Sunday.
Authorities identified 18-year-old Kia Johnson as the woman found tied up with her uterus cut open inside a Pennsylvania apartment, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office said Sunday.
An autopsy on a woman's body found in an apartment linked to a mystery newborn baby found that the woman was partially eviscerated and her uterus was cut open, authorities said Saturday.
One of two men charged with killing the crew of the Joe Cool charter fishing boat last year has agreed to plead guilty to first-degree murder, a victim's relative said.
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
A 20-year-old Missouri woman has pleaded guilty to snatching a pregnant teenager she met online in a foiled plot to wait out delivery and steal the newborn.
A man was convicted of murder Thursday for a shooting rampage that killed a teacher in an elementary school and his ex-girlfriend's mother.
Scott Peterson was convicted November 12, 2004, for the deaths of his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child. He may be locked up in San Quentin State Prison and facing the death penalty, but he is not cut off from the outside world.
The blaze engulfed Frank Morris' shoe repair shop in minutes, bright orange flames stretching 60 feet into the air. Morris was so severely burned, only the soles of his feet were spared.
A woman has sued the call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, claiming Ashley Dupre used her lost driver's license to appear on a "Girls Gone Wild" video.
Only one of the nearly 2,000 guests who attended the FBI's 100th birthday party Thursday was alive when a handful of investigators formed what was to become the world's premier law enforcement agency.
Ricky Green wandered into this town some months ago, a stranger just a bit stranger than most.
The family of a North Carolina woman found slain at a construction site earlier this week was granted temporary custody of her two young daughters from her husband after filing an emergency petition.
A man convicted of killing "Curious George" collaborator Alan Shalleck in South Florida has been spared the death penalty.
Grave robbers, a curse of burial grounds for centuries, are back for new valuables: metal ornaments that can be melted down for quick cash as copper and other metal prices climb.
The former stepfather of a 12-year-old Vermont girl found dead earlier this month has been indicted on child pornography charges.
It looked like something out of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." And sure enough, it was.
The Teflon Don is dead and gone. The Mustache Petes of the Mafia's old guard are mostly behind bars. And the crime rackets have gone global.
Lou Pearlman and federal authorities have finally agreed on how much the former boy band promoter swindled from banks and investors in a decades-long scam: a staggering $300 million.
A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter because she wanted out of an arranged marriage told a judge Tuesday that he had done nothing wrong.
Two elderly women were sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday for murdering two indigent men to collect insurance policies taken out on their lives.
Susan Atkins, a terminally ill former Charles Manson follower convicted in the murder of actress Sharon Tate, on Tuesday was denied a compassionate release from prison.
Behind closed doors, the scientists and agents of the FBI scrutinize fibers, poisons, explosives, DNA and just about any other shred of evidence that might help solve crimes.
A Marine accused of killing his soldier wife was advised of murder and arson charges against him in a brief hearing before a judge on Tuesday.
California parole officials on Tuesday considered releasing a follower of Charles Manson who is dying of brain cancer, but the governor and others said her decades-old crimes were too brutal for her to be shown such mercy.
A 21-year-old man who police say was abducted and sexually assaulted at the home of a paper-mill worker credits his family's love with helping him survive the ordeal.
A 22-year-old woman will probably face six years in prison after admitting that she and her boyfriend pulled off a brazen identity-theft scheme that funded trips, fancy dinners and expensive salon visits.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in connection with a July 4 shooting barrage that killed four people and injured two, and investigators are looking for two alleged accomplices, a police official said Monday.
Phil Spector's prosecutor has found a sixth woman who wants to testify that the music producer threatened her life, according to a new motion that sets out facts similar to those alleged in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley has asked the California parole board to deny Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins' request for compassionate release from prison.
Jeff Carstensen was spooked when he learned his grandmother planned to buy him a $100,000 life insurance policy -- and name herself the beneficiary.
In the 10 years since Suzanne Lyall disappeared from an upstate New York college campus, her parents have clung to fading hope while trying to rally others who have lost loved ones, even after police have acknowledged the cases have long since gone cold.
The FBI earned its reputation hunting down bank robbers and other outlaws in the heydays of Bonnie and Clyde and Al Capone.
The pastor of a Kentucky church that handles snakes in religious rites was among 10 people arrested by wildlife officers in a crackdown on the venomous snake trade.
A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced Friday to almost five years in prison for giving secret information about U.S.-Taiwan military relations to a New Orleans furniture salesman who turned out to be a Chinese spy.
Unless he has another brush with the law someday and a DNA sample is taken from him, JonBenet Ramsey's killer might never be caught.
It seems even 22 miles of open ocean might not be keeping gangs off Catalina Island, a mist-shrouded outpost of Los Angeles County best known for its Hollywood history and crystal-clear harbors.
A fight over a woman in a college bar left one student in a coma and another charged with assault. As Bryan Steinhauer lay in a hospital bed, Miladin Kovacevic was bailed out by his mother, got a passport to replace the one surrendered to authorities and fled the country.
The capital murder trial of Atlanta courthouse gunman Brian Nichols will be moved from the scene of the crime, a judge ruled Thursday.
Two of five feet that have washed up on the shores of British Columbia are from the same person, but authorities believe they are a long way from solving the mystery of where they came from.
A man suspected of killing his wife and two young children in the family's rural home in western Pennsylvania was arrested Thursday after a daylong manhunt and charged in their deaths.
A man suspected of bludgeoning eight people to death in a one-week killing spree was charged Thursday in two more of those killings, a Missouri prosecutor said.
A former Alabama state trooper is scheduled to go on trial in October for a slaying that occurred on darkened streets during a historic civil rights demonstration in Marion, Alabama in 1965.
The man accused of a courthouse shooting rampage that left four people dead pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity as his trial began Thursday, more than three years after prosecutors say Brian Nichols confessed in the killings.
The father of murder victim JonBenet Ramsey hopes that something worthwhile can result from his family's tragedy: More emphasis on collecting DNA from every felon in the United States.
Armed with a few invisible skin cells, prosecutors are now certain they have the DNA profile of the man who killed 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.
Recently developed "touch DNA" technology has cleared all members of JonBenet Ramsey's family of her slaying, authorities said Wednesday.
Crime scene DNA is typically recovered from blood or semen stains, but the DNA that exonerated members of JonBenet Ramsey's family came from invisible skin cells.
Marcia Frey laid down the law when her daughter and son-in-law, Holly and Nicholas Sheley, moved into her trailer after losing their apartment last month: No alcohol. No drugs.
A federal judge on Tuesday overturned the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a Louisiana prison guard.
A man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for stabbing his roommate to death after an argument in their Houston apartment about stinky feet.
A detective and prosecutors did not commit crimes when they put together a murder case against a man whose conviction was later overturned on DNA evidence, a special prosecutor said Tuesday.
A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick.
Police have confirmed that a body software programmer Hans Reiser led them to is that of the estranged wife he is convicted of killing.
A federal judge has dismissed a slander lawsuit filed by former California congressman Gary Condit against author Dominick Dunne.
A 12-year-old girl found dead last week in a shallow grave near her uncle's home was killed, a federal prosecutor said Monday at an initial appearance for the uncle on charges of kidnapping the girl.
The defendants fidgeting in Part 4 of Buffalo City Court have been arrested on charges that could mean potential prison time and damaging criminal records, but they have another important trait in common: All have served their country in the military.
As the hunt wound down for the man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in two states, a disheveled Nicholas T. Sheley walked calmly into a Subway restaurant in suburban St. Louis, asked to use the phone and called his lawyer -- all but ensuring his capture.
For more than 10 years, John Lotter has faced death in Nebraska's electric chair for the grisly 1993 triple murder that spawned the movie "Boys Don't Cry."
A member of a gang of drifters who was accused of helping to kill another woman in the group and of torturing the woman's 11-year-old son pleaded no contest Thursday to reckless homicide.
Paul House says you'll have to excuse him if he isn't feeling especially patriotic this Fourth of July.
Relatives of an 8-year-old girl found raped and slain in an abandoned home said Thursday that the young teenager accused of the crime was like a member of the family.
A Texas man who spent more than 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of kidnapping and robbery raised both arms skyward and collapsed in his mother's embrace Thursday after being told he was a free man.
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