A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced ...

For Emily - not her real name - the imprisonment of her then-husband for crimes against her led to a reduction in support ...

The improvement in national crime perceptions is largely driven by Democrats, whose view that crime has increased fell ...

It started with a fire at the Philadelphia home of Luz Cuevas and Pedro Vera in December 1996. The fire rampaged through the ...

About a half dozen people, including at least one of Laken Riley’s relatives, left an Athens, Georgia, courtroom to avoid ...

California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the ...

Charles Manson's claimed that he "left some dead people on the beach" in Mexico before starting the Manson Family cult, per a newly released prison call aired in a Peacock documentary.

King County prosecutors allege a team of public defenders violated a court order when they were allowed unsupervised access ...

On Dec. 22, 1984, four black teenagers approached electronics specialist Bernhard Goetz, 37, on the New York City subway.

A number of recent human-on-human crimes — including murder — have attempted to be covered up by blaming them on bear attacks ...

Melissa Lucio was found guilty of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, who died in 2007. A judge now says she's innocent.

Donald Trump has made a tougher stance toward China central to his pitch on foreign policy, even as Joe Biden and Xi Jinping ...