The former lover of a wealthy young woman testified Monday that he killed her parents because they opposed their affair, which crossed Brazil's rigid class lines. Complete Story
Former Montana State football player John LeBrum was ordered jailed on $1 million bail Friday after he was charged with murder in the shooting death of a suspected cocaine dealer.
The state Supreme Court has refused to allow a Texas attorney to practice law in Arizona because he served time for attempted murder before becoming a lawyer.
A court sentenced a 21-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man Monday to a life in prison for torturing, killing and robbing a 54-year-old man in a wheelchair who was suffering from multiple sclerosis.
A college professor was charged with trying to arrange the killing of a co-worker who had accused him of sexual harassment.
A wealthy young woman and her former lover go on trial Monday in the slaying of her parents, a case that has riveted the nation with lurid details of a forbidden affair that crossed Brazil's rigid class lines.
The legal saga of a New Jersey man imprisoned for nearly 18 years for a murder he said he did not commit ended Friday when prosecutors dropped the charges.
Former Fresno State basketball player Terry Pettis was convicted Friday of murdering a teenage woman in a botched drug robbery.
A state appeals court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a man who once was sentenced to death in the 1991 slayings of four teenage girls, sending the case back to a lower court because of a codefendant's statement that was used by prosecutors.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal in the case of a mentally ill man whose conviction was overturned in the 1999 death of a woman pushed into the path of an incoming subway train.
Prosecutors have charged the son of Mozambique's former president with masterminding the assassination of the country's top investigative journalist, according to a report Saturday.
A 29-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing a friend in a dispute over how to use a PlayStation video game console.
Investigators searching the ranch of a woman accused of killing a farmhand and burning his body say they found human bones in a burn pile on her property, blood in her house and a bloody knife, according to court documents.
The estranged wife of a millionaire developer found slain this month in his home fantasized in an e-mail last year about "pummeling him to death," but her lawyer said Tuesday she was only venting her frustrations over her husband's extensive legal and other troubles.
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide if a convicted California killer deserves a new trial because the victim's family members wore buttons with a picture of the slain man in front of jurors.
A jury on Tuesday cleared two teenage brothers of murdering a 10-year-old Nigerian boy as he walked home from a London library more than five years ago, a killing that shocked Britain and launched a debate about inner-city violence.
The brother of an investment banker poisoned in Hong Kong in what became known as the "milkshake murder" was found stabbed to death in his home, police said.
The flophouse bathtub James Earl Ray stood in to shoot Martin Luther King Jr. has been sold to an online casino for $7,600, the tub's owner said Thursday.
Trial was ordered for a woman who allegedly tried to hire a man to kill her 89-year-old husband. At the conclusion of Monday's preliminary hearing, Superior Court Judge Laura Ellison said there was enough evidence to order trial for Linda Evans, 56, on charges of solicitation of murder and solicitation of arson charges.
Two teenagers taunted a man rummaging through a trash bin and then killed him after he bared his buttocks at them, police said Tuesday.
James Butler, a boxer who fought under the nickname "The Harlem Hammer," pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and arson Monday in the 2004 death of a freelance sports writer.
The flophouse bathtub James Earl Ray stood in to shoot Martin Luther King Jr. is for sale on eBay for a third time.
A fugitive from Panama who was convicted of stabbing a pregnant woman to death in 1991 was arrested at her New York home Thursday, nearly 12 years after she escaped from custody.
A man who confessed to murdering his parents nearly 18 years ago but has since recanted and proclaimed his innocence was denied a new trial Friday.
A British court awarded six prison officers damages and legal costs reported to be in excess of 1 million pounds (US$1.75 million, euro1.45 million) Wednesday for "walking into a scene of gothic horror" where an inmate had strangled his cellmate and then disemboweled him.