Dec 12 - By Associated Press
A man has been convicted of murder for his role in a 2006 Indianapolis robbery during which three children and four adults were shot.
Dec 10 - By Marianela Jimenez, Associated Press Writer
The Interamerican Court of Human Rights has criticized Mexico for a lack of diligence in investigating the slayings of three young women in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Dec 10 - By Associated Press
The Kansas attorney general's office has filed a revised capital murder complaint against a former Missouri city official after a fourth victim died in the case.

Dec 1 - By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press Writer
After dropping out of college to marry the man who would later be charged with killing her, Karen Kahler had finally returned to school to finish her degree.
Dec 1 - By Ben Dobbin, Associated Press Writer
A smirking teenager drew a life sentence without the possibility of parole Tuesday for killing four people during two robberies over the Christmas holidays last year.

Nov 29 - By John Hanna, AP Political Writer
An 89-year-old woman has died from injuries suffered in a weekend shooting in northeast Kansas that also left her granddaughter and two great-granddaughters dead, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Nov 20 - By Associated Press
An Indianapolis man convicted of killing three children and four adults during a home invasion robbery three years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Nov 19 - By Lucas L. Johnson Ii, Associated Press Writer
A man charged with fatally stabbing and beating six people in Tennessee and Alabama asked a responding deputy to let him hug his 4-year-old daughter — the only person spared in the attack, the deputy testified Thursday.
Nov 5 - By Associated Press
A Los Angeles County grand jury has charged a convicted serial killer with three more murders based on DNA evidence.
Nov 4 - By Associated Press
A former handyman convicted of killing seven people during a robbery at a suburban Chicago fast-food restaurant in 1993 has been sentenced to life in prison.
Oct 29 - By Ben Dobbin, Associated Press Writer
A high school dropout, either acting alone or with help, stabbed, shot or bludgeoned four people to death during two robberies over the Christmas holidays last year, a jury decided Thursday.

Oct 23 - By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press Writer
In the year since three members of her family were brutally killed in Chicago, Grammy and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has found ways to heal and start a new life.
Oct 22 - By Associated Press
A judge said Friday he would give a sentence of life in prison without parole to a man convicted of killing three children and four adults inside their home during a robbery three years ago.

Oct 20 - By Karen Hawkins, Associated Press Writer
A Chicago jury decided Tuesday that a former handyman will spend the rest of his life in prison, rather than be sent to death row, for the 1993 slayings of seven people at a suburban restaurant.
Oct 16 - By Associated Press
A former drifter has pleaded not guilty in Wisconsin to killing two teenage sweethearts nearly 30 years ago.
Oct 12 - By Charles Wilson, Associated Press Writer
A witness says he saw a man accused of killing seven people holding an assault rifle on the front porch of their Indianapolis home minutes before the slayings.
Oct 6 - By Associated Press
A jury foreman says a Missouri man who pleaded guilty to killing three members of a Texas farm family was spared the death penalty because of a single juror.
Oct 6 - By Associated Press
A Texas jury has spared a Missouri man the death penalty and sentenced him to life in prison without parole for killing a pregnant woman, her husband and her son.

Sep 30 - By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press Writer
A scruffy 21-year-old walked into the police station in the small eastern Arizona town of Springerville, winded after running the 2 1/2 blocks there from his home. He wanted to tell the police chief that cops from out of town were in his jurisdiction.
Sep 29 - By Michael Tarm, Associated Press Writer
A former handyman was convicted Tuesday in the slayings of seven people whose bodies were found in a walk-in freezer and cooler at a suburban Chicago fast food restaurant 16 years ago.

Sep 23 - By Thomas Watkins, Associated Press Writer
A man already accused of killing two women and suspected in the deaths of as many as 30 more was charged Wednesday with raping and murdering five other victims.
Sep 22 - By Associated Press
A Silicon Valley engineer charged with fatally shooting three former co-workers has decided to represent himself in his murder trial.
Sep 21 - By Jeffrey Collins , Associated Press Writer
A South Carolina man confessed Monday to methodically stalking and murdering four family members in their home, reloading his shotgun five times before firing the final shot into his father as the man said "I love you."
Sep 14 - By Russ Bynum, Associated Press Writer
A prosecutor says he will seek the death penalty for a 22-year-old man charged with killing his father and seven others inside the family's mobile home in coastal Georgia.

Sep 6 - By Russ Bynum, Associated Press Writer
A 22-year-old man acted alone when he bludgeoned his father and seven others to death inside a coastal Georgia mobile home, police said Tuesday, though they would not give what weapon was used.