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  • Mexican crime reporter killed in Veracruz state

    June 14, 2012 10:01 PM

    VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - Authorities in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz say gunmen kidnapped and killed a reporter for the local edition of the national newspaper Milenio, the fifth such killing in the state in 1½ months. Journalist Víctor Manuel Baez Chino covered the crime beat for Milenio's Veracruz... more »
  • US won't pursue charges in border agent shooting

    April 27, 2012 8:41 PM

    EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Federal prosecutors say there is insufficient evidence to pursue charges against a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the shooting death of a 15-year-old Mexican national in 2010. The Justice Department released a statement Friday saying the agent didn't act inconsistently with Border Patrol policy or... more »
  • French spymaster: Gunman didn't plan school attack

    March 23, 2012 1:47 PM

    PARIS (AP) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's spy chief says a gunman who killed three young children and a rabbi at a Jewish school only attacked the school after missing his original target - a French soldier. Ange Mancini, Sarkozy's intelligence adviser, said on French TV that Mohamed Merah had... more »
  • Killing spree suspect dead after standoff

    March 22, 2012 7:08 AM

    TOULOUSE, France (AP) - A police official says that the suspect in a three-attack killing spree who claims links to al-Qaida is dead. The official, Didier Martinez of the Unite SGP police union, says the news was announced Thursday on the police radio shortly after a 5-minute volley of gunfire.... more »
  • Mental hospital to free woman accused in slaying

    April 2, 2011 5:18 PM

    DENVER (AP) - A Colorado woman found not guilty by reason of insanity on charges of killing her mother-in-law and trying to kill her husband has been granted conditional release from the state mental hospital. The Denver Post reported Saturday that Teresa Lynn, formerly known as Teresa Spitz, will... more »
  • Plane, helicopter collide in Virginia, 2 killed

    December 31, 2010 6:31 PM

    WEYERS CAVE, Va. (AP) - Federal aviation officials say a small plane collided with a medical helicopter in the air in rural western Virginia, killing two people on the plane. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the collision occurred at about 2:30 p.m. Friday a half mile north... more »
  • Case proceeds against Mom accused in autism killing

    September 9, 2010 10:45 AM

    A Colorado woman accused of smothering her infant son she says she believes was autistic is facing a trial. A judge said Wednesday that there's enough evidence for the case against 34-year-old Stephanie Rochester of Superior to go forward. Rochester is charged with first-degree murder in the June... more »
  • Holloway suspect arrested in Peruvian killing

    June 3, 2010 3:16 PM

    Chilean police say they have detained a Dutch man who has long been suspected of killing American teen Natalee Holloway in Aruba. This time Joran van der Sloot was being sought in the death of a woman in Peru, five years to the day after Holloway disappeared. Police say... more »
  • Holloway suspect sought in Peru killing

    June 2, 2010 4:39 PM

    A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in a weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday. Joran van der Sloot is being sought in the Sunday killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, Criminal police... more »
  • Mexico judge OKs producer's arrest in Cancun death

    June 1, 2010 8:22 AM

    A judge in Mexico has issued an arrest warrant for a former "Survivor" producer suspected in the killing of his wife while on vacation with their children at a Cancun resort. That's according to the state attorney general in Quintana Roo state, who says prosecutors would initiate extradition proceedings... more »
  • Teen convicted of manslaughter in NY hate crime

    April 19, 2010 12:35 PM

    A Long Island teenager has been convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime in the stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant. The case cast a national spotlight on bias crimes against Hispanics. Jurors also decided on Monday, their fourth day of deliberations, to acquit 19-year-old Jeffrey Conroy of murder... more »
  • Obama reacts strongly to Mexican killings

    March 15, 2010 10:20 AM

    President Barack Obama is described as "deeply saddened and outraged" over the killings of three people in Mexico who had ties to the U.S. consulate. One consulate employee and her husband were shot in their car with their baby in the back seat. The child was not hurt. Elsewhere,... more »
  • Attempted murder counts added against Alabama professor

    February 15, 2010 1:26 PM

    Attempted murder charges have been added against the professor accused of shooting six colleagues during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university. Amy Bishop was arrested soon after the shooting Friday and charged with capital murder. Jail records show she also has been charged with three counts of attempted... more »
  • Alleged Ohio serial killer likened to Dahmer

    November 8, 2009 12:18 PM

    Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them - most by strangulation - and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard. Such brazenness defies logic, but experts identify a narrow subcategory of serial killers, including the 1893... more »
  • Man fined $12,090 in elk killing

    October 4, 2009 8:16 AM

    A New York State man has been fined more than $12,000 after being accused of illegally shooting a trophy bull elk near Glenwood Springs. Division of Wildlife officials say 35-year-old Thomas W. Post of Massena, New York, killed the bull elk on a private ranch on Sept. 27. Post was... more »
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