second-degree murder

On Friday afternoon, a Cook County jury pronounced Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of teenager LaQuan McDonald.

The mother of a 15-year-old boy brutally murdered in the street said neither New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio or Police Commissioner James O’Neill had reached out to the family with a phone call in the days following the murder.

A woman in upstate New York has been arrested and charged with murder for drowning her ten-day-old son in a bathtub, police say.

Five teens are accused of murdering a man after a massive rock from a Michigan overpass struck the victim in the chest and head, causing his death.

A judge sentenced a Minnesota man Monday to 25 years behind bars for punching his infant daughter to death because he was irritated by the baby noises she made.

An illegal immigrant in a small North Carolina town intentionally hit and killed a bicyclist with his car, according to police.

A jury on Tuesday convicted an actor who played a police officer on TV of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife that was partially witnessed by their two young sons.

Much changed in the story of a lost kayaker between April 19 and the 30th, when discovery of a diary may have factored into his fiancée going from attempted rescuer to accused murderer, despite a still-missing body. Angelika Graswald, 35,