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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A judge has ruled that the man accused of killing the Rainier police chief last year is mentally competent to stand trial.

This undated photo provided by the Salt Lake County Jail shows Dr. Nicola Irene Riley of Salt Lake City, Utah.

A Manitoba man has been found guilty of ordering the slaying of his parents and his brother on a farm near St.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.