Yahoo! News: Crimes and Trials News
Reuters - Authorities shot and killed an escaped inmate Friday who stabbed one Mobile police officer to death and wounded a second after fleeing in a stolen police car.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:34pm
Reuters - The U.S. Army dismissed all charges against the last of five soldiers to face court-martial in the slaying of unarmed Afghan civilians, according to a statement issued on Friday by his home base near Tacoma, Washington.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:25pm
AP - Prosecutors said Friday they plan to file two more murder charges against an ex-Marine accused of killing four homeless men in Southern California, this time in the stabbings deaths of a mother and son who lived near him.
3 Feb 2012 at 10:05pm
AP - Minutes after a man pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was dumped in a trash bin and later found in a landfill, the little girl's twin brother addressed his sister's killer.
3 Feb 2012 at 9:12pm
AP - A Kansas district attorney said Friday that he's likely to interview Gov. Sam Brownback as a witness during an investigation into the legality of private meetings with legislators at the governor's official residence, but the state's most powerful lawmaker criticized the prosecutor's tactics.
3 Feb 2012 at 9:12pm
AP - A woman has won $975,000 in a federal jury trial, 14 years after giving birth in a jail cell in Washington state.
3 Feb 2012 at 7:17pm
AP - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Friday he will meet with a district attorney leading a secret investigation that has already led to charges being filed against five former close aides and associates.
3 Feb 2012 at 5:12pm
Reuters - A Pennsylvania jury ended a second day of deliberations on Friday without reaching a verdict in the corruption trial of one of the state's longest-serving lawmakers, accused of using state employees to campaign for him for free.
3 Feb 2012 at 4:39pm
AP - Attorneys for a deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on suspicion of drunken driving want to call the Oscar-winner as a witness during an upcoming trial to determine if the officer suffered discrimination because of the case.
3 Feb 2012 at 3:15pm
AP - A financial officer who admitted advertising child pornography for others to download was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison.
3 Feb 2012 at 2:55pm
Reuters - Texas financier Allen Stanford drew on a secret Swiss bank account for personal expenses like yacht maintenance and to pay bribes, the government's top witness said at Stanford's fraud trial on Friday.
3 Feb 2012 at 2:55pm
AP - A federal judge in North Carolina ruled Friday that a Raleigh school administrator accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a terrorism case should be held without bond until her trial.
3 Feb 2012 at 2:38pm
AP - A jury began deliberations Friday in the voter fraud trial of Indiana's election chief, who faces charges that could oust him from office.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:52pm
Reuters - Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Friday were released into army custody a few hours later, security sources said.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:31am
AP - Lawyers for a former Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting want a state appeals court to delay her March trial because officials haven't paid for expert witnesses or testing by a neurologist.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:01am
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Violent Crime News
Prosecutors said Friday they plan to file two more murder charges against an ex-Marine accused of killing four homeless men in Southern California, this time in the stabbings deaths of a mother and son who lived near him.
3 Feb 2012 at 11:07pm
The police department announced Friday that a narcotics officer and his sergeant have been stripped of their guns and put on desk duty amid an investigation of the officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed drug suspect within a few feet of the suspect's grandmother inside the family home.
3 Feb 2012 at 9:02pm

A judge has ruled that the man accused of killing the Rainier police chief last year is mentally competent to stand trial.
3 Feb 2012 at 4:48pm

This undated photo provided by the Salt Lake County Jail shows Dr. Nicola Irene Riley of Salt Lake City, Utah.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:39pm

A Manitoba man has been found guilty of ordering the slaying of his parents and his brother on a farm near St.
3 Feb 2012 at 8:28am
Joliet, Ill. - The Will County State's Attorney's office says a judge has set an August trial date for a man accused of shooting to death his wife and three children.
3 Feb 2012 at 4:19am

Lawyers for a former Alabama professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting want a state appeals court to delay her March trial because officials haven't paid for expert witnesses or testing by a neurologist.
3 Feb 2012 at 12:05am
An ex-Marine charged with killing four homeless men in Southern California has been linked to the stabbing deaths of a woman and her son, Anaheim police said Thursday.
2 Feb 2012 at 9:00pm

Colorado takes pride in its Western entrepreneurial spirit - and that extends to the belief of some lawmakers that businesses owners should be able to use deadly force against anyone who tries to take what's theirs.
2 Feb 2012 at 5:55pm
FORT HOOD, Texas - The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during the Fort Hood shooting rampage will go on trial in June, a military judge ruled Thursday after agreeing to a three-month delay.
2 Feb 2012 at 2:46pm

The 15-year-old boy who strangled his adoptive parents to death over what police believe might have been an argument about his suspension from school will be represented by a public defender as he faces a double murder charge.
2 Feb 2012 at 11:36am
A man who served 18 years in prison for a San Francisco double murder he didn't commit has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city.
2 Feb 2012 at 7:26am

A Burley man arrested after the shooting death of a passenger in his pickup truck is scheduled to be arraigned later this month on an involuntary manslaughter charge.
2 Feb 2012 at 3:22am

A California police officer about to be arrested by his partner and best friend pulled a gun and began firing wildly in what some experts believe was an act of suicide by cop.
1 Feb 2012 at 11:12pm
Two people were tied up and killed, and their bodies burned beyond recognition in a posh Phoenix suburb, shaking a police department that last investigated a homicide in 2004 and residents who were being told to lock their doors and pay attention to their surroundings.
1 Feb 2012 at 8:07pm
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