Radovan Karadzic refused Tuesday to enter pleas to a new streamlined indictment containing two genocide charges and nine other counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Complete Story...
U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic of ordering a deadly campaign of terror against Kosovo Albanians, saying he had no role in what they ruled was a criminal plot to drive ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo.
A U.N.-sponsored war crimes court is delivering verdicts Wednesday on three rebel commanders accused of crimes against humanity. Prosecutors say the three men — Issa Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao — are responsible for the criminal acts of their subordinates. They have pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.
The rebels were known for asking their victims if they preferred "long sleeves" or "short sleeves." They then cut off the hands of those who chose the first option and the full arm of those that picked the second.
Hispanics outnumber other ethnic groups among criminal offenders in the federal courts due in part to the crackdown on illegal immigration, according to a study released Wednesday.
The only Serb ever to be acquitted of war crimes by a U.N. court demanded on Wednesday that a court grant him compensation for his more than four years of detention.
A hearing for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been delayed because of a mistake by prosecutors.
The number of hate crimes rose in Russia last year as the global economic crisis fueled xenophobic feelings but higher conviction rates kept the number from going higher, a human rights group said Wednesday.
A man who had both hands hacked off during Sierra Leone's civil war testified Friday as the last prosecution witness in the war crimes case against Charles Taylor.
A Sudanese man was convicted Wednesday of spying for the International Criminal Court ahead of its expected decision on whether to seek President Omar al-Bashir's arrest on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said in a motion published Wednesday that judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal should order prosecutors to cut down his indictment or risk his trial taking years to complete.
The Army said Monday it is expanding its attention to sexual abuse cases by adding prosecutors, rearranging its criminal investigative unit and stepping up training to change behavior.
Militias under the command of a former Congolese vice president rampaged through Central Africa Republic raping hundreds of women and men, war crimes prosecutors alleged Monday. But the defense argued Jean-Pierre Bemba sent the troops to rescue an embattled neighbor, and was not responsible for their actions once they crossed the border.
A Sudanese court has given a Sudanese man accused of passing classified information to an international court investigating Darfur war crimes more time to prepare his defense.
The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor warned Thursday that the court is being undermined by staff resignations even as the arrest of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic makes it necessary to stay open an extra two years.
U.N. judges have ruled that an immunity deal Radovan Karadzic claims he made with U.S. peace envoy Richard Holbrooke would be invalid and would not prevent the former Bosnian Serb leader's trial on genocide charges.
A Croat survivor of a 1991 mass murder testified Monday that Serb fighters beat and tortured civilians before forcing them into a mine field, where they died.
Russian news agencies say a Tajik man has been beheaded near Moscow in an apparent hate crime.
Two Congolese warlords pleaded not guilty Thursday at the International Criminal Court to charges of murder, rape and using child soldiers during a deadly attack on a village in 2003.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador opposes reopening the prosecution of Salvadoran officials in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, the cleric said Sunday.
Bosnia's top war crimes court says it has found a Bosnian Serb guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to seven years in prison. Three others accused of crimes against humanity were acquitted.
Hate crimes incidents decreased slightly last year despite a surge in those targeting gays and lesbians.
Cuban courts are getting tough on price gouging and other post-hurricane crimes, sentencing nearly one-fourth of people arrested so far to jail sentences, state media reported Tuesday.
Officials say four former Bosnian Serb police officers have been arrested for allegedly having participated in the wartime execution of 200 civilians.
U.N. appeals judges on Wednesday confirmed the 35-year sentence for a former Croatian Serb leader convicted for his role in a deadly campaign of ethnic cleansing in Croatia.
Excerpt: Antonio Thomas Robledo was in a bad way Friday night when he called 911. His roommate had kicked him out. He had nowhere to go. He said he had been drinking. And he wondered if Duluth Police had any suggestions on a place to stay.
Excerpt: Philadelphia police have a man in custody in connection with a bizarre murder in which the victim was found in a makeshift coffin in the living room of a boarding home (above).
INVERNESS — One of Florida's most notorious rapists will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Citrus County judge gave the 60-year-old man a 210-year sentence.
GARDEN GROVE – Garden Grove police investigating a domestic violence call early this morning found one man lying face down without a pulse on the floor of a bedroom and another man covered in blood.
PINE HILLS -- Authorities in Orange County are searching today for a barefoot woman wearing a leopard-print long-sleeve shirt who is accused of stabbing a man at a Laundromat.
SINGAPORE courts are preparing to cope with more criminal and civil cases during this downturn. In 1999 and 2002, when the country was battling recessions, the courts' workload hit record levels.
Excerpt: Christopher Payne starved his two older children to death because he was so focused on feeding himself, his girlfriend and their baby and supplying himself and his girlfriend with drugs, a prosecutor said.
Excerpt: In her final MSN conversation, a male nurse posing as a teenage girl coaxed Brampton teen Nadia Kajouji to hang herself on webcam while he watched. Minnesota authorities are close to laying charges against the man, in his late 30s, St. Paul police said yesterday.
Excerpt: David Kaczynski, the brother of the man convicted in the deadly "Unabomber" mail bombing spree, will visit the campus to advocate for a nationwide end to the death penalty, on Tuesday, March 3, at SUNY Cortland.
Excerpt: Unrequited love is generally portrayed in movies and songs as a harmless obsession. Here in the real world, it can be a bit scarier.
Excerpt: Police arrest a 39-year-old Tacoma man in the July 2007 disappearance of his girlfriend. Glenn D. Riccio reportedly said he killed Jessica Armstrong and buried her at his Hilltop home. ...
Excerpt: DUNGEON dad Josef Fritzl's trial could be held in private after court officials were advised they could ban ALL public and press from the hearing.
HOUSTON—A Houston woman was arrested Wednesday night and charged with three counts of possession of child pornography. Crystal Dawn Wallace, 34, was arrested at her home in the 8900 block of South Braeswood.
Excerpt: The Escambia County Sheriff's Office has a new story for the Dumbest Criminals file.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- It sounds like the script from a horror movie. A professional masseuse was arrested for murdering a client and then chopping his body into little pieces. But, she told detectives she can't remember a thing.
MANATEE COUNTY - Those close to Sabine Musil-Buehler yearn for justice in her disappearance and likely killing, but they worry they may never get it if the body of the missing Holmes Beach hotelier is not found.
71% of Americans want to see Bush investigated, and it's about time Obama's team hightailed their way over to court to start doing it. During the Bush years Americans the boogeyman used to keep Americans cowed was the real or imagined threat of imminent terrorist attack.
BRADENTON, Fla. -- A Sarasota man was arrested after allowing his 8-year-old son to drive a van, police said. Police arrested Mark A. Belanger, 34, just before midnight Sunday on charges of child abuse and permitting an unlicensed driver to drive.
Excerpt: Two St. Petersburg police officers shot and killed a 40-year-old woman who appeared about to stab another woman with a large barbecue fork Tuesday night.
"In my 35 years, I've never seen anything like this," said Lt. Steve Femley of Bellingham police.
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State is expected to push for the "Rights of the Child" incorporating U.S. law and entangling America with U.N. law according to news reports.
JUPITER - A Georgia woman who police said bludgeoned and stabbed her 80-year-old grandmother to death with a tire iron on Saturday, told police her name was Jesus when they went to arrest her, according to a police report.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Two suspects in a convenience store robbery may have been able to get away from the scene of the crime, but the heat from their car ultimately gave them away.
Excerpt: A man returned home Saturday to find someone had broken in, but nothing was missing - except a $6 steak that was apparently cooked and eaten while he was away. An intruder broke a window to enter 1516 NE Perry Ave. sometime between 11 a.m. and 9:45 p.m.
BURNETTOWN, S.C. --- Two 10 year were olds busted at Aiken County school for trading pot among themselves and then trying to sell to other students in school.