Parents of alleged rape victim arrested, charged with abuse Police say parents struck girl with sticks, wires and fists In July, four boys were charged with assaulting girl; parents said they blamed daughter (CNN) -- The...
3, including 2 brothers, arrested in South Side sting After a rash of Craigslist customers were robbed on the South Side, Chicago police scoured the popular Web site's ads for similar posts and posed as buyers.
A 43-year-old California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to several bank robberies in Washington state. Robert Vincent Mendez has also been indicted in four other bank robberies...
A US Senate panel vowed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Nov. 5 murders at Fort Hood, opening public hearings on Thursday and invoking a broader discussion on homegrown Islamic extremism. "There were warning...
Posted Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 A 56-year-old Oklahoma man has received two life sentences plus 99 years for his role in kidnapping a Springtown couple during a botched plan to rob a Springtown bank in 2007. A Parker County jury...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have charged two men with murder and robbery in connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old man late Thursday night in an apartment complex near UNC Charlotte. Police say the victim, Jonathan Ray...
Saturday, November 21, 2009 CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A former Wyoming state trooper was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for kidnapping a truck driver in what prosecutors say was an aborted murder plot. U.S. District Judge Alan...
When Harry Miller was told he could leave prison, he curled up into a ball and "cried like a baby." He cried so hard his sheets were soaking wet. He was 4 1/2 years into a five-years-to-life sentence for aggravated robbery — a...
On a mournful day of testimony that regularly brought men and women, jurors, veteran police officers, and prosecutors to tears, Officer Chuck Cassidy's widow told a Philadelphia jury yesterday about life after 10:30 a.m., Oct....
Texas carried out its 23rdexecution of the year last night -- out of a national total of 48 -- after Governor Rick Perry rejected a rare recommendation from the state clemency board for the prisoner's life to be spared. Robert...