Witnesses told police that the victim was shot after an argument with a man in a parking lot.

Authorities say a 17-year-old male was found dead in an off-campus house at Penn State and a fraternity has been suspended.

Authorities say a 17-year-old male was found dead in an off-campus house at Penn State and a fraternity has been suspended.

A 19-year-old Delaware day care worker is accused of suffocating a 4-month-old girl under her care because the child would not stop crying.

An Arkansas woman was arrested in connection to the death of former state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, who was found dead outside her home last week. Rebecca Lynn O’Donnell, 48, was taken into custody Friday, Arkansas State Police said. Criminal charges are pending, NBC News reports. Ken Yang, Collins-Smith’s former press secretary, told NBC News that O’Donnell and Collins-Smith were friends...

An Arkansas woman was arrested in connection to the death of former state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, who was found dead outside her home last week. Rebecca Lynn O’Donnell, 48, was taken into custody Friday, Arkansas State Police said. Criminal charges are pending, NBC News reports. Ken Yang, Collins-Smith’s former press secretary, told NBC News that O’Donnell and Collins-Smith were friends...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 2-year-old girl found dead in Waycross over the weekend.

A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a man who claims he killed a Virginia store manager because he thought the victim was a werewolf.

A woman was found strangled Saturday morning at a motel in north suburban Waukegan.

A convicted child abuser faces a murder charge in the death of a girl whose body was found in a duffel bag on a trail east of Los Angeles.

Authorities seized thousands of pounds of cocaine worth nearly $80 million in a monster bust at the Port of New York/Newark last month, the biggest such seizure at the port in the 21st century, customs officials said Monday.

Crews on Monday recovered the body of a missing backcountry skier who apparently died in an avalanche in southwestern Colorado as the danger level remained elevated following heavy snow over the weekend. Teams working with avalanche dogs found the man’s body in a slide believed to have occurred Sunday in the Matterhorn area near Telluride, the San Miguel Sheriff’s Office...

A prosecutor in the trial of an Iowa father whose infant son was found dead in a baby swing last year has told a jury the child “died of diaper rash.” Assistant Iowa Attorney General Coleman McAllister told jurors Tuesday that 4-month-old Sterling Koehn had been in the same diaper for nine to 14 days when his body was found...

A Chicago police officer found dead in what authorities believe was a suicide over the Labor Day weekend has been identified as a 47-year-old man.

A family is searching for answers after an 11-year-old boy was found shot to death inside his Chicago home.

Chicago police say an 11-year-old boy whose body was found on the floor of a South Side home early Monday morning had a gunshot wound to the head.