A gifted musician and teacher whose piano students included his neighbors' kids fatally shot his wife and two daughters then himself in the family's Miami home, police say, leaving those who described him as friendly and helpful to wonder what happened. Complete Story...
A man who told a sheriff's dispatcher he had money problems strangled his wife and 11-year-old son, then shot and killed himself, authorities said Wednesday.
A mother who drowned her three young children in a bathtub at their Long Island home has apparently reached a plea agreement that would send her to a psychiatric facility rather than prison.
A young American diplomat has been found dead at his house in the Ethiopian capital and foul play is suspected, U.S. and Ethiopian officials said Thursday.
Prosecutors dropped a murder charge Tuesday against a man accused of killing his 19-year-old girlfriend after a forensic pathologist reversed himself and said he didn't know how the woman died.
A man who died in prison while serving time for a rape he didn't commit was cleared Friday by a judge who called the state's first posthumous DNA exoneration "the saddest case" he'd ever seen.
The personal doctor to a professional wrestler who killed himself, his wife and their 7-year-old son in 2007 pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally distributing prescription drugs to patients, one of whom died.
A family of four was found shot to death in their suburban Columbus home, victims of an apparent murder-suicide committed by the father, police said Thursday.
A judge in Cincinnati has set bail at $6 million for a man accused of killing his adoptive father and his stepmother and stepsister.
A man who abandoned 280 white rats found dead and dying in crowded carriers was ordered to pay $1,000 restitution and perform 50 hours of community service.
Squatting in the rubble, his briefcase perched atop his knees, the human rights researcher interviewed residents of a house shelled by Israel as he compiled a list of Gazans killed and wounded during Israel's offensive against Hamas.
A U.S. man died Friday while scaling Argentina's Aconcagua mountain, becoming the fifth climber to perish this month on the highest peak in the Americas, officials said.
It’s time to get confused all over again. After a lengthy nine and a half month wait, “Lost” returns for its penultimate season of island intrigue and off-island head-scratchers Wednesday night. Ready to dive back into the murky mystery?
One family buried a slain son over his grandfather. Another bundled up the tiny bodies of three young cousins and lowered them into the grave of a long-dead aunt. A man was laid to rest with his brother.
Police who searched dumps in three states for the remains of a baby thrown out in a Jersey City hospital's trash gave up Thursday, saying they had little chance of success.
It looks like the old Dead are gettin' on.
U.S. military deaths in Iraq plunged by two-thirds in 2008 from the previous year, a reflection of the improving security following the U.S. military's counterinsurgency campaign and al-Qaida's slow retreat from the battlefield. By comparison, the war in Afghanistan saw American military deaths rise by 35 percent in 2008 as Islamic extremists shift their focus to a new front with the West.
A mother and her two young children were found shot to death Friday, possibly by the mother who may have also staged a series of attacks on the family over the last two weeks, police said.
An autopsy report says a pregnant soldier found dead in a Fayetteville motel room in June likely died of asphyxiation.
A court found a German woman guilty of manslaughter Monday for killing two of her babies and stashing them in the family's freezer — in one case for 20 years.
The militants waited in the shadows for the police van to pass, and when it slowed down in the narrow road, they sprayed it with gunfire.
Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.
Three gold miners were found dead in an underground tunnel in the mountainous northern Philippines on Sunday after they apparently ran out of oxygen, officials said.
A mother and her three young sons, including a toddler in a playpen, on Friday were found shot dead in an apparent murder-suicide in a bucolic Florida community set amid farm fields, officials said. All of the children found in the home were under age 4.
A pool hall where owners cash local workers' paychecks erupted in gunfire Thursday, leaving four people dead in a botched robbery.