The former Philadelphia doctor who performed late-term abortions has been found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder. Kermit Gosnell, who turned in his medical license, had been charged with four counts for the deaths of babies who prosecutors say were "born alive and viable during the sixth, seventh and eighth months of pregnancy." [ more › ]
Two suspects in the high-profile fatal shooting of Hadiya Pendleton pleaded not guilty today to dozens of counts of first-degree murder, attempted murder and other charges.Michael Ward, the alleged shooter, was indicted on 141 counts...Show More Summary
The murder trial for Christopher Gerhartsreiter, otherwise known as Clark Rockefeller, in the death of a 27-year-old man whose remains were discovered in 1994 in the backyard of a San Marino home is continuing Thursday in L.A. County Superior Court....
Jose Fuentes, 23, was found guilty by a jury of one felony count of murder, as well as one felony count each of first-degree robbery and first-degree residential burglary, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office.
When it comes to drivers consistently getting away with murder in NYC, much blame has been placed on the NYPD's woefully understaffed Accident Investigation Squad. But today the Times examines another reason for the frequent lack ofShow More Summary
Joseph Baez, 28, was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of one felony count of second-degree murder with sentencing enhancements due to Baez's connection to a criminal street gang, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office.
David Richard Campbell, 67, is charged with one felony count of special circum stances murder, facing a minimum sentence of life in state prison without the possibility of parole if convicted, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office.
Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, each was charged with first degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm. [ more › ]
Triple murder suspect Christopher Dorner was charged today in Riverside County with capital murder and three counts of attempted murder. [ more › ]
Texas authorities charged Eddie Ray Routh with the murders of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield. Routh, 25, was charged with two counts of murder and one count of capital murder for the Saturday slayings at a gun range. He was reportedly aggressive with his jailers at the Erath County Jail last night and needed to be tasered. [ more › ]
Charles Lee Clark, 74, has been charged with one felony count of murder, and was brought back from Beavercreek, Ore., where he had been living, according to a joint statement from the Orange County district attorney's office and the Tustin Police Department.
Gabriela Osorio, 30, pleaded guilty to one felony count each of attempted murder, kidnapping a child under 14 years of age, first-degree residential burglary, criminal threates, false imprisonment by violence and three felony counts of aggravated assault with a knife causing great bodily injury, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office.
A 16-year-old student suspected of critically wounding another student with a shotgun at Taft Union High School was charged Monday as an adult with two counts of attempted murder, Kern County prosecutors said. He also was charged with three counts...
Antonio Cinco Ortega, 26, was found guilty by a jury in November after a re-trial of one felony count of attempted murder with premeditation and deliberation, one felony count of conspiracy to commit murder and one felony count of mayhem, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office.
Prosecutors filed murder charges Wednesday against a 21-year-old woman accused of fatally poisoning a 2-year-old toddler with chili powder. Amanda Sorensen, of Apple Valley, was charged with one count of murder and another count of child abuse causing death, according...
A man suspected of killing three women in Los Angeles in the 1980s has been charged with multiple counts of murder.
72-year-old Samuel Little was arrested in Kentucky in September on unrelated narcotics charges from Los Angeles and is already serving prison time on those charges. [ more › ]
A gang member suspected of shooting a well-known director of a Pasadena youth sports program director was charged with murder Wednesday. Larry Darnell Bishop, 20, also faces one count of attempted murder, two counts of shooting at an occupied home...
Nearing the end of the year, the murder counts for 2012 in both San Francisco and Oakland are up over last year, ending what had been a two-year lull of relatively low violent crime. A sixteen-year-old girl found in distress on the sidewalk...Show More Summary
Mark Alan Jarosik, 46, was found guilty by a jury in October of two felony counts of forcible rape, one felony count each of solicitation to commit murder and attempted murder with premediation and deliberation, two misdemeanor counts...Show More Summary
Daniel Edward McDermott, 44, faces on felony count of special circumstances murder during the commission of a rape, with a maximum penalty of life in state prsion without the possibility of parole if he's convicted, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office. McDermott is set to be arraigned Thursday.