A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.

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The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.

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A judge's decision to move Johannes Mehserle's murder trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit police officer charged with gunning down an unarmed man on New Year's Day.

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A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba plead guilty in federal court.

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A 17-year-old Mexican immigrant has pleaded guilty in San Diego to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in July.

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A prison system official says a New York City man is free after spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder before a judge declared him innocent.

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A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, arrest warrant says.

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A former stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from a narcissistic disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court.

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Lawmakers from California to Kentucky are trying to save money with a drastic and potentially dangerous budget-cutting proposal: releasing tens of thousands of convicts.

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A slain 10-year-old girl's body, found in her downstairs neighbor's apartment, had deep saw marks on the neck, said authorities who alleged that her killer had planned to dismember her and eat the flesh.

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An Ohio man has been charged with attempted murder after authorities said he put an infant and a toddler in a trash bin.

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The fate of a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery was in the hands of Gov. Rick Perry after the state parole board recommended the death sentence be commuted to life in prison.

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An Arkansas police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl has been suspended - not for using the Taser but for not having a video camera attached when he used it.

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Murder charges are filed in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, burned body was found last week, while officials say they are weighing whether to make it a hate crime case.

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A 37-year-old father irate over hearing his 15-year-old son had sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl made the teen strip at gunpoint, marched him to a vacant lot and shot him to death, a relative said.

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An undercover officer posing as a prostitute in Alabama tried more than once to run off a 13-year-old boy who asked her for sex, but police say the teen insisted and had to be arrested.

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Police in Minnesota have arrested two people in connection with assaults that were videotaped and briefly posted on YouTube.

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FBI officials say an elderly, thin, gray-haired man nicknamed the "Geezer Bandit" is responsible for holding up five San Diego-area banks since summer.

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The gang rape of a 16-year-old in Richmond, Calif., led to six arrests, captured nationwide headlines and put this community through spasms of self examination.

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A judge on Wednesday ordered that a 15-year-old Missouri girl must stand trial as an adult for the slaying of a 9-year-old neighbor.

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Investigators probing the kidnapping and death of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl say they can't file more charges until they decide where the crimes occurred.

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Two armed men in ski masks walked into a T.J. Maxx store in Venice, Fla., on Tuesday night and took up to nine employees hostage, according to news reports.

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A former Army counterintelligence worker has been executed by electric chair in Virginia for killing a couple in 2001.

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Prosecutors in Missouri have filed 15 additional sex charges against a father and his adult sons who were already accused of sexually abusing children.

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A law enforcement official says the New York Police Department raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers as part of a union corruption probe.

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