<p>Texas plans to execute on Wednesday a man convicted of opening fire at a children's birthday party in 2008, believing a rival gang member was present and fatally shooting a woman and her five-year-old granddaughter in a spray of[...]

The five defendants facing serious criminal charges for the 2016 death of a young boy on the Verruckt water slide in Kansas City, Kan., are asking for separate trials. In a filing Tuesday in Wyandotte County District Court, Jeff Henry, John Schooley [...]

A Virginia man who spent 18 days shackled in the back of a van in transit between jails on a charge that was ultimately dismissed is filing a lawsuit. Edward Kovari of Stephens City was arrested in Virginia on September 2016 on charges in Texas.[...]

Officials Tuesday released more information about how seven inmates were killed during a riot at Lee Correctional Institution earlier this month. According to Lee County Coroner Larry Logan, all seven died from exsanguination, or severe blood loss,[...]

Poverty, scarce resources, and a pattern of locking up people for low-level crimes all lead to very long jail stays for many defendants awaiting trial in Mississippi. A new recent survey provided exclusively to The Associated Press shows more than[...]

With no weapon or witness, a California prosecutor who has won more than a dozen cold cases must prove that Mr. Durst killed a confidante 17 years ago.Sign Up For the Morning Briefing[...]

Authorities say suspects in the 1999 shooting deaths of an Oklahoma couple and the abduction of their 16-year-old daughter and her friend "bragged" about photographing the girls while they were bound. Sixty-six-year-old Ronnie Dean Busick[...]

A 15-year-old boy and his two friends have been accused of drugging his mother before strangling and stabbing her in her Maine home, court documents say.A 15-year-old boy and his two friends have been accused of drugging his mother before strangling [...]

The horrific incident took place at Aloha Steakhouse A man was randomly stabbed in the neck while dining with his family at Aloha Steakhouse in Ventura, Calif. on Wednesday.&nbsp;A man was randomly stabbed in the neck while dining with his[...]

The boss behind Colombia's largest crew of drug traffickers and criminals has been extradited to Brooklyn to face federal charges. Daniel Rendon-Herrera's Clan Usuga imported tons of cocaine from Colombia to Central America and Mexico,[...]

<p>A West Virginia woman who claimed her 3-year-old daughter was kidnapped by human traffickers in 2011 has been found guilty of murdering the child, multiple outlets report.</p>On Monday, a jury in Lewis County Circuit Court found Lena Marie[...]

Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible, both 16, were last seen alive on Dec. 29, 1999. The girls had planned to celebrate Ashley’s birthday with a sleepover at her Welch, Okla., home.Eighteen years after two girls vanished following a fire that destroyed[...]

Bill Cosby's lawyers are urging a jury to acquit the 80-year-old comedian of sexual assault charges they say are based on "flimsy, silly, ridiculous evidence." The defense at Cosby's retrial gave its closing argument Tuesday. His[...]

One of the South Carolina's most notorious killers is no longer in protective custody, according to Department of Corrections officials.&nbsp;DOC spokesman Jeffrey Taillon said Monday that Todd Kohlhepp, 47, is no longer in protective[...]

A Fort Worth man on Texas death row was denied clemency and a late-stage federal appeal on Monday, barely 48 hours before he is scheduled for execution in the Huntsville death chamber.&nbsp;Erick Davila was convicted of killing a rival gang[...]