Blaze Bernstein -- a 19-year-old gay, Jewish student at the University of Pennsylvania -- was found buried in a park stabbed to death.

The Palatine Police Department is renewing its plea for help in solving the murder of a 30-year-old man who was shot and killed a year ago today.

Voters, always on edge about crime and safety, grew impatient with the district attorney, who didn't work hard enough to show ...

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

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

Prosecutors point to one dancer's account as an example of how they say strip club owner Peter Gerace Jr. exploited young women through their drug addictions and coerced them into ...

The judge presiding over the murder trial of Richard Allen wanted to prevent a media circus. In doing so, she significantly ...

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.

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

In 1989, Americans were riveted by the shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children. Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to life in prison and lost ...

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