Officials Tuesday released more information about how seven inmates were killed during a riot at Lee Correctional Institution earlier this month. According to Lee County Coroner Larry Logan, all seven died from exsanguination, or severe blood loss,[...]

Poverty, scarce resources, and a pattern of locking up people for low-level crimes all lead to very long jail stays for many defendants awaiting trial in Mississippi. A new recent survey provided exclusively to The Associated Press shows more than[...]

With no weapon or witness, a California prosecutor who has won more than a dozen cold cases must prove that Mr. Durst killed a confidante 17 years ago.Sign Up For the Morning Briefing[...]

Authorities say suspects in the 1999 shooting deaths of an Oklahoma couple and the abduction of their 16-year-old daughter and her friend "bragged" about photographing the girls while they were bound. Sixty-six-year-old Ronnie Dean Busick[...]

A 15-year-old boy and his two friends have been accused of drugging his mother before strangling and stabbing her in her Maine home, court documents say.A 15-year-old boy and his two friends have been accused of drugging his mother before strangling [...]

The horrific incident took place at Aloha Steakhouse A man was randomly stabbed in the neck while dining with his family at Aloha Steakhouse in Ventura, Calif. on Wednesday. A man was randomly stabbed in the neck while dining with his[...]

The boss behind Colombia's largest crew of drug traffickers and criminals has been extradited to Brooklyn to face federal charges. Daniel Rendon-Herrera's Clan Usuga imported tons of cocaine from Colombia to Central America and Mexico,[...]

<p>A West Virginia woman who claimed her 3-year-old daughter was kidnapped by human traffickers in 2011 has been found guilty of murdering the child, multiple outlets report.</p>On Monday, a jury in Lewis County Circuit Court found Lena Marie[...]

Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible, both 16, were last seen alive on Dec. 29, 1999. The girls had planned to celebrate Ashley’s birthday with a sleepover at her Welch, Okla., home.Eighteen years after two girls vanished following a fire that destroyed[...]

Bill Cosby's lawyers are urging a jury to acquit the 80-year-old comedian of sexual assault charges they say are based on "flimsy, silly, ridiculous evidence." The defense at Cosby's retrial gave its closing argument Tuesday. His[...]

One of the South Carolina's most notorious killers is no longer in protective custody, according to Department of Corrections officials.&nbsp;DOC spokesman Jeffrey Taillon said Monday that Todd Kohlhepp, 47, is no longer in protective[...]

A Fort Worth man on Texas death row was denied clemency and a late-stage federal appeal on Monday, barely 48 hours before he is scheduled for execution in the Huntsville death chamber.&nbsp;Erick Davila was convicted of killing a rival gang[...]

A man who opened fire as firefighters knocked down a blaze at a Harbor Gateway home is in custody, police said.&nbsp;The suspect “appeared to be suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a tweet.[...]

A man who opened fire as firefighters knocked down a blaze at a Harbor Gateway home is in custody, police said.&nbsp;The suspect “appeared to be suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a tweet.[...]

'Blonde Beautiful and Dead' looks at the infamous 1908 murder of Hazel Irene Drew that that series creator Mark Frost learned about from his grandmother who lived nearby.Now, David Bushman, the author of the Twin Peaks FAQ, and Mark Givens,[...]