A former Las Vegas Strip casino dealer on the run for days after authorities say he opened fire on a picnic for a group of fellow employees, killing one, was arrested Thursday in Texas. Anthony J. Wrobel, 42, was taken into custody by sheriff's[...]

Manhattan jurors who sent a killer nanny to jail for the rest of her life said they anguished over the decision, and the emotional trial. Shortly after finding Yoselyn Ortega guilty in the grisly stabbing deaths of two children she cared for in[...]

A former star of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" and her ex-husband testified Wednesday in their son's attempted-murder case that they discussed legal strategies with him during phone conversations that they didn't know were [...]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of the state's three-decades-old death penalty law, rejecting a challenge that argued juries and not judges should impose death sentences. The court ruled against[...]

A federal judge has rescheduled sentencing for an Ohio man convicted of trying to help the Islamic State group.U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus on Wednesday in Columbus rescheduled Aaron Daniels sentencing from April 26 to May 24. Daniels pleaded[...]

A two-time killer says he's ready to die and he doesn't want to fight state prosecutors who will make that case Thursday. Patrick Schroeder was convicted of strangling his cellmate at Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.Schroeder was[...]

Fifteen years ago, a Miami jeweler named Hugo Quesada stabbed his estranged wife and her stepfather to death in a row over his attempt to become a priest in the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion. He then escaped to Argentina, where he lived for years[...]

The prosecutor in the Minnesota county where Prince died said Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed in the musician's death, effectively ending the state's two-yearLoad[...]

Vernon Madison has spent decades on Alabama's death row. Now 67, Madison has suffered from strokes and dementia and his lawyers say he no longer recalls the crime that put him there: the 1985 killing of a police officer. His speech is slurred,[...]

Drug Enforcement Administration agents have brought the alleged East Coast crime boss of the notorious street gang MS-13 to New York to face murder conspiracy and drug-trafficking charges. Authorities say Miguel Angel Corea Diaz ordered beatings and [...]

While Lois Riess’s whereabouts are unknown, she is believed to be driving her second victim’s car.A nationwide manhunt is currently underway for 56-year-old Lois Riess, better known as the “gambling grandma” from Minnesota, who’s on the run after[...]

In an executive order signed Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted some 35,000 paroled felons the right to vote. The move by the second-term Democrat came after state Republicans blocked a bill in the state Senate.“I’m unwilling to take no[...]

Convicted child killer Genene Jones confessed at least three times to giving overdoses to babies in her care, at one point admitting “I didn’t kill the babies, the voices in my head did,” an attorney testified Wednesday at a hearing that turned into [...]

A New York nanny was found guilty on Wednesday of stabbing to death two children in her care at their luxury Manhattan apartment, in a case that drew national headlines. A jury unanimously rejected the insanity defense of Yoselyn Ortega, 55, whose[...]

<p>A gang-related melee at a South Carolina prison that ended with seven dead and 17 injured, the deadliest U.S. prison riot in a quarter century, exposed the vulnerability of an understaffed system.</p>A gang-related melee at a South Carolina [...]