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Amarillo police have made three arrests in connection with a recent homicide.

Olympic star Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears as he stood before magistrate Desmond Nair. Pistorius is being charged with murder in the shooting death of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two San Antonio brothers facing sexual exploitation counts have been charged with killing one sibling's 10-year-old daughter, the girl's mother and a friend. Prosecutors say the stabbed bodies were found during a 2011 house fire a few days before the brothers faced court appearances related to alleged abuse of the girl...

A man was found dead outside an I40 hotel on Christmas Eve morning and has now been identified.

Casper (Wyo.) Police Saturday revealed additional details that emerged in Friday's murder-suicide at Casper College.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The defense considers whether to produce more evidence as the capital murder trial of North Texas man moves closer to being handed to the jury. Testimony resumes Monday in state district court in Fort Worth after Steven Lawayne Nelson testified in his own defense...

EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her four children has pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree murder, thus avoiding a death sentence. Joshua Durcho pleaded guilty Friday before Canadian County District Judge Gary Miller...

A man whose sister was killed by another motorist says that during the ensuing court battle, his sister’s insurance company — Progressive — actually defended the at-fault driver. And after taking his complaints public, the case is getting a lot of attention.

Luka Rocco Magnotta, dubbed the “Canadian Psycho” after he mailed body parts of a dismembered murder victim to Ottawa law enforcement and politicians, has been arrested in Germany.

George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot Florida teenager Trayvon Martin earlier this year, was charged with second-degree murder and taken into custody on Wednesday.