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A woman arrested on suspicion of murder after shooting her husband to death in their Lemon Grove backyard — San Diego deputies say the woman told 911 dispatchers she had shot her husband on accident — was released from custody Thursday after the District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against her.

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

A mother of five found stabbed to death on Mother’s Day was the daughter of a woman who also was stabbed to death 16 years ago.

A 44-year-old man was found strangled to death Wednesday in Lawndale on the West Side. Police are investigating a homicide after the man was found unresponsive in an apartment about 12:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Saint Louis Avenue, Chicago police said. Autopsy results determined he was assulted and died of strangulation and multiple blunt force trauma, according…

Authorities said Lannon was on the run and is connected to the murders of a man in East Greenwich, New Jersey, and of four people, including his ex-wife, in New Mexico.

Police are searching for a person of interest in the murders of five people in New Mexico and New Jersey, including his ex-wife.

An independent review cited “leadership failures” and said “the command climate at Fort Hood has been permissive of sexual harassment/sexual assault.”

A Connecticut physical therapist charged with killing his wife and three children at their Florida home told his sister in a phone call from jail that he couldn’t have stopped his family from being slain — because he wasn’t around.

A 30-year-old Paterson man surrendered to police Saturday in connection with the killing of an eight-months pregnant woman whom he allegedly shot multiple times. The victim, identified only as R.L., delivered a healthy baby, then died. According to prosecutors, Donqua Thomas lay in wait for the victim for 90 minutes, parking his vehicle just outside her home in Paterson and…

Donny Jackson, 40, was arrested after allegedly abducting his two daughters, who were later found safe. It is unclear what his relationship is to the two dead boys.

Detectives are questioning two people after a shooting that left a man dead and four other people injured Saturday in Austin on the West Side. They were at a backyard party at 12:37 a.m. in the 100 block of North Laporte Avenue when someone started shooting into the yard, according to Chicago police. A 23-year-old man was shot multiple times…

Former homicide detective turned television producer Pete Carrillo dishes on his new true crime series “Journey to Justice.”

Authorities in central Florida have arrested two men and one woman in the killings of three best friends who had gathered last Friday for a night of fishing.

Detectives are looking for the person who beheaded and dismembered a tech entrepreneur in his luxury New York City apartment, law enforcement sources tell News 4 New York. According to sources, Fahim Saleh’s body was discovered by his sister, who dropped by his Lower East Side apartment to check on him Tuesday afternoon. Police sources familiar with the investigation say…

On Monday, after still another violent weekend in Chicago, police Supt. David Brown once again pointed a finger at the home release of some accused offenders from Cook County Jail. “We must keep violent offenders in jail longer,” Brown said. “We should revamp the electronic monitoring program. It’s clearly not working.” It’s a charge Brown had made numerous times...

A man is facing DUI and reckless homicide charges after a fatal wrong-way crash Saturday in west suburban Naperville. Frank P. Qualtier Jr., 54, was driving a silver Dodge Ram pickup west on Royce Road about 7:30 p.m. when it crossed into the eastbound lanes and hit a black Ford Fiesta head-on near Lisson Road, according to a statement from…

Attorneys for the family of George Floyd released independent autopsy results on Monday that show Floyd’s death “was homicide caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain.”

Tragedy struck the Santa Cruz area in 2015 when 8-year-old Maddy Middleton was allegedly killed by a teenage boy. Now, her ashes have been stolen.

A 19-year-old woman was fatally shot Tuesday in Merrillville in northwest Indiana. Officers responded about 2 a.m. to call a gunfire in the 7300 block of Bigger Street and found the woman dead in a vehicle, Merrillville police Cmdr. Jeff Rice said in a statement. The woman, identified as Tonya Gray of Merrillville, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead…

A decomposing body found wrapped and concealed under a mattress in Bessemer, Alabama on Wednesday has been identified as missing 30-year-old mother Tiffany Smitherman Osborne, authorities said.