
10 hours ago - By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press Writers
Federal prosecutors charged three police officers in a racially tense Pennsylvania coal town with orchestrating a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant by altering evidence or lying to the FBI in a case against two white high school football players. Complete Story...
Dec 14 - By Jeffrey Collins , Associated Press Writer
Quentin Patrick will spend at least the next 16 years in prison because the convicted drug dealer, paranoid of being robbed, answered a Halloween knock on his door with a barrage of bullets from an AK-47, killing a 12-year-old South Carolina boy.
Dec 11 - By Associated Press
A Los Angeles jury says a robber who ambushed and killed an armored car courier a decade ago should get life in prison without chance of parole.

Dec 11 - By Corey Williams, Associated Press Writer
Stripper Tamara Greene has found more notoriety in death than she ever did dancing under the name "Strawberry" in dimly lit topless clubs and private parties around Detroit.
Dec 7 - By Associated Press
A murder trial has begun for a New Hampshire woman accused of killing a man with her car after a group of people allegedly taunted her for having a New York Yankees decal on the vehicle.
Dec 7 - By Associated Press
A veteran Los Angeles police detective was ordered Thursday to stand trial in the decades-old killing of her ex-boyfriend's wife but will not face the death penalty.

Dec 2 - By John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer
An attorney for the fiancee of a Yale University lab technician charged with killing a graduate student said Wednesday he's been told authorities are seeking a sample of her DNA.
Nov 30 - By Associated Press
A Southern California man suspected of fatally punching his disabled relative as he sat in a wheelchair has been arrested for investigation of murder.
Nov 28 - By Associated Press
A Thanksgiving dispute over chores turned deadly outside Colorado Springs, where police say a 76-year-old man shot and killed his son after the two argued for most of the day.
Nov 23 - By Associated Press
A Syracuse teenager who falsely confessed to fatally shooting a neighbor has been sentenced to two to six years in state prison.
Nov 18 - By Associated Press
A New Hampshire man was charged Wednesday with helping two others come up with an alibi in a home-invasion attack that killed a woman and severely injured her 11-year-old daughter.
Nov 15 - By Associated Press
The family of a Yale student found stabbed to death off campus in 1998 has learned that DNA evidence in the unsolved murder was contaminated by a former forensic lab worker.

Nov 13 - By John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer
An animal research technician charged with killing a Yale graduate student raised suspicions when he began scrubbing floors after the crime and tried to move a box of bloody wipes from the view of an investigator, according to an arrest warrant released Friday.

Nov 11 - By Michael Tarm, Associated Press Writer
A suburban Chicago jury said Wednesday that a convicted murderer should be executed for the rape and killing of a 10-year-old girl kidnapped from her home 26 years ago — a case that helped lead to landmark death penalty reforms in Illinois, including a moratorium on executions.
Nov 9 - By Associated Press
Two men have been charged in the killing of a 49-year-old German man on the Caribbean island of Tobago.

Nov 7 - By Matt Sedensky, Associated Press Writer
A man charged with killing his dementia-plagued father by dragging him into the ocean has reached a plea deal, his attorney said Thursday, in a case that illuminated the stresses faced by those who care for people with Alzheimer's disease.
Nov 3 - By John Christoffersen, Associated Press Writer
Some documents detailing the case against a former Yale University employee accused of killing a graduate student must be unsealed and made available to the public in three business days, a Connecticut judge ruled Friday.
Oct 27 - By Kathy McCormack, Associated Press Writer
A judge has denied a request from The Associated Press and other media outlets to make public police affidavits in the slaying of a New Hampshire woman and the attack on her 11-year-old daughter.
Oct 27 - By Michael J. Crumb, Associated Press Writer
After burning through $1 million in savings and seeing no end to their losses, dairy farmers Jake and Lori Slegers figured they didn't have much choice — they had to kill the cows.

Oct 26 - By John Curran, Associated Press Writer
A New Hampshire man charged in the murder of a developmentally disabled Wal-Mart cashier who'd been flirting with his girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday to lesser charges, admitting he helped orchestrate the attack from his jail cell.
Oct 22 - By Ben Leubsdorf, Associated Press Writer
Two teenagers will spend the rest of their lives in prison for beating a homeless man to death, while a third accused in the attack faces charges that could also put him behind bars for life.
Oct 21 - By Associated Press
A Southern California attorney accused of killing his girlfriend's daughter 20 years ago has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.

Oct 21 - By Malcolm Foster, Associated Press Writer
Viewers expressed mixed reactions Wednesday to "The Cove," a covertly filmed movie about a Japanese dolphin-hunting village that was shown to the Japanese public for the first time at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Oct 20 - By Associated Press
Former Seattle Seahawks safety Terreal Bierria has been arrested in the killing of a Louisiana man.
Oct 20 - By Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press Writer
News organizations asked a judge Tuesday to unseal documents detailing the case against a former Yale employee accused of murdering a graduate student, while a prosecutor opposed the request, citing the privacy rights of the victim's family and the need to ensure an impartial jury.