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A Senegalese immigrant with a police record for drug dealing has confessed to the murder of American artist Ashley Ann Olsen, who was found naked and strangled in her apartment in Florence, Italy, last Saturday. The 25-year-old suspect came to

Alain Ghozland, 73, a French Jewish politician from outside of Paris, was found dead in his apartment on Tuesday, with his body showing multiple lacerations that appeared to be stab wounds, according to reports. Mr. Ghozland was a municipal councillor

A mob of four wealthy men kidnaped and subsequently gang-raped a 7-year-old boy before they disposed of his body near a Christian district in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, according to media reports.

In what local news sources are calling a murder mystery, a 35-year-old Florida woman named Ashley Ann Olsen was found naked in her rented apartment in Florence Saturday, after having been strangled. The victim was an artist who had moved

On Friday, Chee Kung Tong leader Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, 56, was convicted of racketeering, murder, and other charges.

‪On Tuesday, President Obama unleashed a disgusting assault on more than half of Americans, suggesting over and over again that if they cared about dead children, they’d simply make way for his gun-control agenda.

As the nation celebrated New Year’s Day, most spending the day off work with family, the denizens of Chicago were working overtime to rack up victims. This year, on New Year’s Day, Chicago gang warfare racked up 2 deaths and 15 shot.

A Florida woman is behind bars after police charged her with killing her 3-year-old son and stuffing his body in a suitcase.

Next week, three young black women will stand before a Philadelphia judge for savagely beating a homeless white man to death with a hammer and a chair leg last April, all because the 10-year-old son of one of the women lied and said the homeless man struck him.

As most citizens of the Windy City were gearing up for Christmas Day, others were still engaging in gangland shootings, and in the 48 hours leading up to the blessed day, three people were killed and seven were wounded—including a well-known local rap artist.

Four alleged members of the Mexican MS-13 street gang have been arrested and charged with murder in Gaithersburg, Maryland, authorities report. It was the second charge for murder leveled at the teenaged crew.

As former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez appeared in court for the pre-trial hearings on yet another murder charge, the court got a look at the former player’s new tattoo and it isn’t one likely to sit well with either officials or perhaps even a jury.

The family of Walter Scott, the South Carolina man seen on video being shot by a North Charleston police officer, is asking a judge to approve a $6.5 million wrongful death settlement.

On Friday, a woman who murdered her six-week-old daughter by putting her in a microwave for up to five minutes was sentenced to 26 years to life in a Sacramento court.

A 15-year-old high school football player in Atlanta was killed at a party this week when he jumped on top of some girls to shield them from gunfire that erupted, police say.

The weather in Chicago was unseasonably warm for much of the week, and those balmy temps carried over into the weekend. Unfortunately the shootings continued, and the weekend brought yet another large number of wounded and dead Chicagoans. 27 were wounded—including a five-year-old boy—and two killed this weekend.

One of two Muslim converts jailed for killing British soldier Lee Rigby in broad daylight on a London street in 2013 is seeking compensation after losing two front teeth in a struggle with prison guards, the government confirmed Thursday. The

Police in Kentucky have arrested an Indiana man for the stabbing death of a 6-year-old boy, killed during a home invasion in a seemingly totally unprovoked attack.

A Chicago woman, who already had a record of child abuse, was arrested and charged with beating her 2-year-old daughter so badly that the girl later died. Police say the mother was upset that the child would not eat her noodles.

The case of a missing two-year-old has been worrying residents of Searcy, Arkansas, for over a year. But this week, police announced a break in the case, with the arrest on murder charges of the toddler’s own father.

A Chicago police investigation is revealing the last chilling minutes of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee’s life as a trio of gang members planned his murder.

A mother has spoken of her anguish following the death of her son at the hands of a predatory paedophile – just months after police refused to respond for her pleas to intervene. 14 year old Breck LaFave was groomed

Chicago police have announced the arrest of one man and said that a warrant has been issued for another in the shooting death of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee, a murder that saddened the city earlier this month.

Murder rates in the nation’s top cities have climbed by 11 percent in 2015, but that’s no big deal, says the progressive Brennan Center for Justice. “Because the underlying rate of murders is already so low, a relatively small increase in the numbers can result in a large percentage increase… murder rates are roughly the same as they were in 2012, and 11 percent higher than they were in 2013,” said the report.

A murder that shocked Indiana may be closer to a resolution with a Monday announcement by Indianapolis police that two men were arrested for the brutal murder of the pregnant wife of a local Christian pastor.

Jurors in the trial of a Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his high school math teacher were shown surveillance footage of the teen following the teacher into the school bathroom just mere moments before her death. The video shows then-14-year-old Philip

Police say that an officer from a Los Angeles suburban police department who was ambushed and shot to death as he sat in his car in the department’s parking lot may have been targeted.

A total of two men and one woman and three children were killed over the weekend while camping on their land near Palestine, Texas. One woman survived the attack by hiding and called police Sunday morning.

The City of Brotherly Love experienced an “exceptionally violent” night on Friday, with four citizens shot and one killed in four separate shooting incidents, reports say. Gunfire erupted early on Friday morning when a man in his 20s was killed

An Alabama woman stands charged with manslaughter after her one-year-old daughter was beaten to death by an eight-year-old boy who was forced to babysit the child while the woman went out nightclubbing, police say.

As of last weekend, there are now 294 recorded homicides in Baltimore this year, up from the 211 murdered during all of 2014.

On Monday, Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, 55, the leader of Ghee Kung Tong, the more than 150-year-old fraternal organization whose former leader Allen Leung was murdered in 2006, is standing trial on charges of murder and racketeering.

Despite being arrested on drug and murder charges, an East Chicago city councilman was re-elected to his office in Tuesday’s elections.

A jury in Cook County convicted a suburban Chicago man of robbing and murdering an elderly Bridgeport woman in order to take her set of wedding rings to propose to his girlfriend.

Chicago Police are now saying that the 9-year-old boy killed near his grandmother’s home on Monday afternoon was specifically targeted for death by gang members.

Payne County District Attorney officially filed second-degree murder charges and 46 counts of felony assault against Adacia Chambers, who is accused of purposely driving into the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade. The judge demanded Chambers undergo a psychological evaluation.