Angie Zapata was a tall woman with striking black hair and eyes who would attract the attention of men, even those who knew she was biologically male.
A man was sentenced Thursday to at least 18 months in jail for fatally beating another man during an argument over Sydney's water restrictions.
Former soldier Steven Dale Green is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl and killing her and her family while serving in Iraq, but he won't face an Iraqi or military jury.
An inmate died after he was apparently beaten by a cellmate being held in a city jail pending deportation by federal immigration authorities, police said Thursday.
A Minnesota jury has convicted a man in the shooting death of a woman he lured to his home with a fake advertisement on the craigslist.org Web site.
A 16-year-old has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and weapons charges in the stabbing death of a New York City newsman.
Police are investigating the slaying of a longtime radio reporter who was found in his apartment bound with duct tape and stabbed to death.
A jury convicted a Massachusetts man Thursday of raping and killing his 6-year-old cousin, rejecting his attorney's claim that the man was insane and "tortured by demons" when he committed the crime.
The alleged leader of a Ku Klux Klan group pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the shooting death of an Oklahoma woman who police said was killed during an initiation at a remote campsite in south Louisiana.
Like most boys, 13-year-old Mykel Mendes looked up to his big brother, Jordan. The two rode bikes together, did yard work together and hung out together. But when it came to the family business — a major drug ring — Mykel did not want to share, police say.
A 15-year-old boy was charged Tuesday in the sniper-style slaying of a Syracuse man after police learned his friend falsely confessed to the crime, possibly as part of a twisted loyalty test.
The alleged leader of a Ku Klux Klan group was indicted on a second-degree murder charge Wednesday in the shooting death of an Oklahoma woman who police said was killed during an initiation in south Louisiana.
A murder suspect living under a false identity in Jamaica has been arrested in the 1998 slaying of a German tourist at a Southern California seaside hotel, the FBI said Thursday.
A Chinese court sentenced a junk dealer to death Monday for murdering eight people, among them a widow who jilted him and her 2-year-old grandson slain with an ax, state media reported.
A 65-year-old woman wanted in a 1968 slaying at a Denver bar was arrested Friday in Dayton, Ohio, where police say she had been living under an alias.
An internationally diverse student body is vital to Virginia Tech, the school's president said Wednesday in response to e-mails and blogs disparaging Asians that surfaced after a Chinese student was accused of decapitating a classmate.
A software executive has been sentenced to 10 days in jail for authorizing the slaughter of 32 of his neighbor's bison that wandered onto his Colorado ranch.
A Colombian judge has sentenced a former mayor to 28 years in prison for ordering the April 2003 killing of a journalist who had repeatedly denounced the politician as corrupt.
A Virginia Tech graduate student accused of beheading a fellow student displayed erratic and standoffish behavior in the months before the attack on campus this week, his landlord said Friday.
A graduate student from China has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a female student on Virginia Tech's campus, the first killing there since a deadly mass shooting in 2007.
California prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for four Marines charged in the execution-style killings of a fellow serviceman and his wife.
A female student was stabbed to death Wednesday night on Virginia Tech's campus, the first killing at the school since a deadly mass shooting there in 2007.
A Chinese man was convicted Friday of murdering an elderly author and attempting to steal his identity in a trial held partly in secret for reasons of national security.
Police in central China seized a man suspected of killing eight people, including a 2-year-old boy who was slain with an ax, state media reported Sunday.
A man looking to rob a young mother's home tied her up in the basement, had sexual contact with her 4-year-old son and fatally shot the woman after she broke free and stabbed him, a prosecutor said Thursday as he announced he was seeking the death penalty against the suspect.
Ohio's highest court has turned down an appeal filed by a Toledo priest convicted of murdering a nun.
LONDON, Ont. — In a series of profanity-laden, wiretapped telephone calls played to a murder trial Friday, an outlaw biker alleged to be at the heart of a mass homicide three years ago was heard explaining to a friend that tensions with the U.S.
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Excerpt: As the disturbing portrait of an obsessed and driven killer emerged from a prosecutor's opening statement in Ontario Superior Court yesterday, a teenaged girl, owlish glasses on her chubby cheeks and her long hair in a ponytail, sat serenely at a table near the front of …
ROCKLEDGE, Fla. -- The motive behind the slaying and beheading of a heroic former police officer may have been money. The answers emerged following an autopsy that showed Paul Cadigan was shot at least six times.
PERUGIA, Italy – An American student charged with the murder of her British roommate showed no distress and was cuddling with her boyfriend hours after the slaying, a friend of the victim testified on Friday. Robyn Carmel Butterworth told the packed courtroom in this Umbrian u …
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.
The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker.
"Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato goes on trial for a cop killing Monday, and sex-club impresario Anthony Marini won't be on the witness list.
The teen convicted of killing Maddie Clifton is talking behind bars.
BALTIMORE -- A Baltimore jury on Friday found a man guilty in the January 2007 slaying of an off-duty city police officer.
When is this country going to wake up and realize that Illegal Immigration does not bring GOOD to this country? WE THE PEOPLE need to vote OUT any and all Incumbents who are leaning towards concessions and/or amnesty. Enough is enough.
Madison police were investigating the suspicious death of a 21-year-old UW-Madison student in a home at 517 West Doty Street this afternoon.
Disabled Man, Friend Stabbed Over 60 Times Each AVONDALE, Ohio -- An elderly man and his disabled friend were found slain; now gruesome new details are emerging about the way they died.
HOUSTON, Texas - A newly ordained youth minister decided he could no longer keep his secret, confessing to authorities he was 16 years old when he fatally stabbed a convenience store clerk in 1994.
Ah... the Religion of Peace™ A manhunt continues for the girls' father, Yaser Abdul Said, 50, wanted in connection with the slayings. A capital murder warrant has been issued for Said.
Iraq's government is asking American security firm Blackwater USA to pay $136 million to the families of Iraqis killed in a recent shooting.
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's general prosecutor said Monday that a Chechen crime boss organized the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and that Russian police and security officers were involved, but suggested somebody living outside Russia was behind the slaying, Russian news …
A disabled man was killed on a Los Angeles street and it was all caught on tape. Police are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating a man who fatally attacked a mentally disabled man the night of May 29. Surveillance cameras captured the attack on tape.
Do not watch this video if you have a weak stomach. It contains gruesome footage of dolphins being captured and mercilessly killed in large numbers to then be processed as products for the Japanese market.