Three men who had just left a downtown St. Louis nightclub were killed in a barrage of bullets by gunmen in another vehicle.
A Southern California man has become the second person sentenced to death in the murders of a retired couple who was tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht.
Colombian authorities have arrested a retired lieutenant colonel and seven other soldiers in the killings of two civilians who they allegedly presented as guerrillas slain in combat to inflate rebel body counts.
Tens of thousands of Armenians marched through the capital on Friday to commemorate the 94th anniversary of the start of mass killings by Ottoman Turks, many calling on Turkey to recognize the slayings as genocide.
When Shalga Hightower remembers her daughter Iofemi, she doesn't dwell on the brutal attack on the 20-year-old and three of her friends in a Newark schoolyard.
Guatemalan police have arrested a gang member accused of being behind the killing of 60 bus drivers and assistants.
A man convicted of murdering an Arizona couple by tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard from their yacht off Southern California was sentenced to death Friday.
Investigators in Guatemala announced Tuesday that a drug gang was responsible for the grisly killings of 15 Nicaraguans and a Dutch man aboard a bus in November.
A prosecutor in Croatia has lifted the veil on a painful episode of Balkan history: the execution of thousands pro-Nazi soldiers and civilians at the end of World War II.
Authorities say a woman and two men were shot and killed at a Compton apartment.
A poem written by 17-year-old Samantha Revelus, who police say was fatally stabbed by her brother on Saturday in a bloodbath in their home, speaks of a strong woman much like her friends described her. Revelus, who was of Haitian descent, had just returned from Milton High School, where she had rehearsed the poem, "Acquaintance," and was to deliver it at a poetry jam on Thursday night.
With her long hair and model's poise, 17-year-old Samantha Revelus exuded confidence when she recited an original poem Saturday afternoon about a strong woman who stood up to "ignorant souls." An hour after she finished rehearsal for an upcoming poetry reading, Samantha was dead on the floor of her family's home. She had been stabbed, police say, by her 23-year-old brother.
The children of three slain Colombian union leaders filed a lawsuit Friday reviving claims that the men's U.S.-based employer was responsible for their killings outside a coal mine eight years ago.
A Hannibal police officer was finishing up mundane paperwork on a quiet Saturday morning when Manuel Cazares walked into the station, blood splattered on his hands and shoes.
Police say a man who fatally shot his estranged wife and three other people at a weekend party also tried to blow up his neighborhood by placing gas cans and propane tanks around his apartment before setting it afire.
A Southern California jury has recommended the death penalty for a third defendant convicted of killing two yacht owners by tying them to an anchor and throwing them to sea.
A Southern California jury has convicted a third defendant in the killings of two yacht owners who were tied to an anchor and thrown into the Pacific Ocean as they pleaded for their lives.
The day after Israeli tanks entered Gaza last month, masked Palestinians opened fire on the al-Najar family outside their home, killing the father and wounding 10 others, including two teenage girls and a 78-year-old grandmother.
Truth is, most of Earnest Lee Hargon's people had been wiped out by the time he went to death row, and those who knew the family weren't sorry to see him go.
A man convicted of murdering four people in a house in a botched 2004 robbery plot was sentenced to death.
Seven Polish troops had no reason to launch a 2007 mortar and machine-gun attack that killed six civilians in an Afghan village in a violation of international law, a prosecutor argued at the start of the soldiers' court-martial Tuesday.
Another 10 Colombian soldiers have been fired for negligence in connection with the killings of civilians to inflate guerrilla casualty figures, the defense minister said Friday.
A woman struck a plea deal Monday but still faces more charges in a crime spree that included the videotaped sexual torture and slaying of another woman.
A convicted murderer serving life in prison has been charged with four new slayings, suggesting that at least three serial killers were stalking women two decades ago in South Los Angeles, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Seven young men who murdered 19 people in a series of hate crimes were sentenced to prison Monday amid a surge in racist assaults, xenophobia and neo-Nazism in Russia.