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Colo. shooting suspect: Brief romance, few friends
It didn't take long for suspicions to surface at a Colorado university that the man who just hours earlier shot up a midnight movie was a student who ...
Half brother accused of killing autistic Wis. man
Matthew Graville couldn't read well or remember numbers. He could drive his friends crazy with his incessant talking. But all he really wanted, by all ...
Troopers: Alaska killer cut wrist, strangled self
A man who confessed to killing an Alaska barista and multiple other people across the country died in his jail cell after slashing one of his wrists ...
4 found slain in Detroit home; homicides spiking
Four people were found shot to death in a Detroit home, authorities said Wednesday, padding the city's homicide total that already has surpassed last ...
Woman killed after car, motorized wheelchair bump
An elderly man opened fire on a woman after her car came into contact with his motorized wheelchair at a central Georgia service station, authorities ...
Beard, other issues remain for new Fort Hood judge
The new judge taking over the Fort Hood shooting case will likely confront many of the questions that faced her predecessor, including one that helped ...
BBC broadcaster charged with indecent assault
An 82-year-old BBC broadcaster has been charged with three counts of indecent assault over alleged incidents in the 1970s and 80s, British police said ...
Paraguayan farmers question probe into killings
Lucia Aguero stood with the other farmers in the standoff. About 300 of them had occupied the rich politician's land that they insisted wasn't legally ...
Ky. school shooter seeks to take back guilty plea
A man who killed three of his classmates at a Kentucky High School in 1997 is fighting to take back his guilty plea and get a trial, arguing that his ...
Germany to seek ban of far-right party
German security officials are trying again to ban the country's only significant far-right party, after meticulously collecting new evidence in an ...
Georgian president and premier in battle of wills
It is a battle of egos that could not be more visible: The shining palace of the president and the lavish glass villa of the new billionaire prime ...
S. African gets life sentence in honeymoon slaying
A South African judge sentenced the triggerman in the 2010 honeymoon slaying of a Swedish bride to life in prison Wednesday, calling the shooter "a ...
Cubs' Sveum accidentally shot by Yount on hunt
Chicago Cubs manager Dale Sveum says he's OK after former teammate Robin Yount accidentally shot him in the right ear and back with pellets during a ...
Texas murder suspect surrenders after escape
A capital murder suspect stole a deputy's gun, fled a Dallas hospital and held police at bay for nearly two hours Tuesday night before surrendering ...
FBI: Alaska barista assaulted, dismembered
A man who died in an apparent suicide this week in an Alaska jail after confessing to a string of killings across the country had sexually assaulted ...
LA police: 4 arrests in killings of 4 outside home
A man accused of gunning down four people outside an overcrowded, unlicensed boarding house in Los Angeles was arrested at a Las Vegas casino-hotel ...
1 more guilty of hate crime in Miss. rundown case
A fourth man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi, and ...
Oklahoma executes inmate for 1993 shooting deaths
An Oklahoma death row inmate whose attorneys had claimed he was mentally unfit to be executed was put to death Tuesday for the 1993 shooting deaths ...
McAfee says he plans to seek asylum in Guatemala
Software company founder John McAfee has surfaced in public for the first time in weeks, saying Tuesday that he plans to ask for asylum in Guatemala ...
Top Dublin criminal shot to death in gangland feud
A senior figure in Ireland's criminal underworld was chased down the street and shot to death Tuesday near his Dublin home, two years after surviving ...
Belcher told cops he was waiting for 'girlfriend'
Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher told officers who found him sleeping in his car outside an apartment complex hours before he committed a ...
'In Cold Blood' murderers investigated in Florida
At the end of 1959, two families of four — one in Kansas, the other in Florida — were brutally murdered. Two men were arrested, charged and executed ...
Police: Indiana men had sex before fatal fight
Indiana authorities investigating the death of a homeless man whose decomposing body was found in a freezer say he had been drinking, taking drugs and ...
3 youths to be charged after fatal soccer attack
Richard Nieuwenhuizen was doing what he loved: watching his son play soccer and volunteering as a linesman. On Monday, the 41-year-old father's ...