Attorneys for a condemned Missouri inmate warn that the state is preparing to execute a potentially innocent man.Marcellus Williams, 48, is scheduled to die Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for stabbing to death former St. Louis[...]

An Iowa couple last week won $3.25 million in a malpractice lawsuit against their former lawyer after the baby boy they were in the process of adopting was reclaimed by his biological parents — and then murdered by one of them five weeks later.[...]

New details are emerging in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway. One of the Alabama high school students who was with Natalee Holloway on the 2005 graduation trip to Aruba during which she vanished is revealing new details about the final[...]

Authorities say Tony Futch, who previously had his license revoked for a DUI in 2013, had separate crashes while maneuvering his SUV around a parking lotDAVENPORT, Fla. - A 25-year-old Orlando man was arrested on DUI charges after he allegedly[...]

<p>One of two Wisconsin girls charged with repeatedly stabbing a classmate to impress the fictitious horror character Slender Man pleaded guilty Monday, but she still faces a trial in the case next month focused on her mental health.</p>Anissa [...]

A man being charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an assisted-living center is the latest result of the county's effort to investigate rape kits found collecting dust in Robbins in 2013.&nbsp;At the time of the attack, the woman, who[...]

CHICAGO — The fatal stabbing of a hairstylist in Chicago was part of a sexual fantasy hatched in an online chatroom between a Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee, whose plan included killing someone and then[...]

The lawyer who helped Michael Jackson get acquitted of child molestation charges in 2005 will be leading Bill Cosby’s attempt to escape a decade behind bars if found guilty in his criminal case retrial for the alleged 2004 rape of Andrea Constand.[...]

A judge was shot and wounded Monday morning as he walked toward his county's courthouse, and a suspect was killed after a probation officer returned fire, officials said. Jefferson County Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. was shot near the courthouse in [...]

Carlee D'Arata faces one count of felony manslaughter while intoxicated for killing her best friend in an ATV accident now faces a felony manslaughter charge.Police say the driver was under the influence when the vehicle flipped over and[...]

The Miami man believed to have supplied music stars Lil' Wayne and Chris Brown with painkiller-spiked soda drinks is headed to prison for 30 years.&nbsp;A federal judge sentenced Harrison Garcia, also known as Cuban Harry, four months after[...]

Jessica Phelps disappeared from her family's front yard on July 1, 1997.It was taken at her family's annual summer gathering in the summer of 1997. She's wearing a blue life jacket and had spent most of the day in the[...]

Chicago police were tipped off to the vicious slaying of a 26-year-old man at a downtown apartment building by a mysterious caller who warned of a possible crime taking place inside one of the residences, officials[...]

In a heinous case on the Navajo Nation, an 11-year-old girl was lured into a van, sexually assaulted and killed. The tribe did not seek to have the man who recently admitted to killing her put to death.American Indian tribes for decades have been[...]

A Texas mother accused of leaving her two children in a hot car to "teach them a lesson," ultimately leading to their deaths, was indicted on Thursday.A Texas mother accused of killing her two children by locking them in a hot car to[...]