<p>Five parents arrested on charges of abusing their 11 children at a New Mexico compound where a 12th child died under suspicious circumstances were due back in court on Monday for a hearing to decide whether the defendants should remain jailed[...]
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The two cousins had planned to settle in for a night of playing video games, but first, the boys, 15 and 17, wanted to walk to the nearby gas station for something to eat. "Probably junk food," said Genice Hines, the mother of the[...]

Two young men were shot -- less than a mile apart -- overnight in Baltimore, police said Saturday morning.&nbsp;Load[...]

In a 911 call, she asked for police help: ‘I don’t know how I woke up here. I don’t know.’In a 911 call later, the confused and weeping woman asks for police to come to the motel, telling the emergency call-taker: “I don’t know how I woke up here. I [...]

The gruesome murders outside Denver in 1984 remained unsolved until DNA found at the crime scenes was matched to a Nevada inmate last month, the authorities said.The father suffered 16 blows to the top of his head with a hammer and his throat had[...]

Billy Ray Irick was put to death by the state of Tennessee on Aug. 9, 2018. He was convicted in 1986 for the rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl.NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the parking lot of Riverbend Maximum Security Institution here, an empty[...]

<p>The son of a California city police chief is expected to appear in court on Friday after he was arrested for beating an elderly Sikh man in an unprovoked attack that was caught on video.</p>Tyrone McAllister, 18, has been charged, along[...]

The issue of murder clearance rates is in the spotlight as Chicago officials struggle to solve gun violence that’s plaguing the city. The city is just one among many struggling to solve violent crime.The national murder clearance rate—the[...]

Tennessee carried out the execution Thursday of a man condemned for the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl, marking the first time the state has applied the death penalty since 2009.Inmate Billy Ray Irick, 59, received a three-drug injection[...]

Joseph G Ems Jr, 22, was investigated over the death of Tim Piazza, 19, but pleaded guilty to hazing and an alcohol offense for his conduct with a different unnamed pledge.Joseph G Ems Jr, 22, pleaded guilty to hazing and an alcohol offense on[...]

A Nevada inmate who was sentenced to death in 2007 for committing drug-related murders in Phoenix and Las Vegas said Wednesday he wants his execution carried out as fast as possible. Scott Raymond Dozier, whose execution has already been delayed[...]

Federal authorities in Los Angeles say 22 people have been arrested and are accused of smuggling large amounts of narcotics into the U.S. from Mexico.&nbsp;The arrests of 22 suspects come on the heels of a nearly three-year investigation into[...]

Three MS-13 gang members have finally been convicted of murder after they “took turns shooting” a suspected rival gang member in the head and stomach almost three years ago, officials said. Giovani Antonio Herrera, 23, Jonathan Steven Guevara, 21,[...]

A Michigan father's jaw dropped in court this week as he was told he could spend the rest of his life behind bars for the starvation death of his 10-month-old daughter.&nbsp;A Michigan father's jaw dropped in court this week as he was told[...]

A Florida man who was punched unconscious by a motorist on a New York street died Tuesday, police said.&nbsp;The incident occurred around 1:15 a.m. Sunday in Long Island City when Sandor Szabo, 35, knocked on the window of what he[...]