U.S. / Tags / Murder

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Jurors in the Hans Reiser murder trial left the Alameda County courthouse this afternoon without reaching a verdict and will return next week to resume deliberations. The panelists left Superior Court in downtown Oakland shortly after 3 p.m. They have.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 22, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

CNN -- Tim Masters is expected to walk out of prison Tuesday after spending more than nine years incarcerated for murder -- and despite the promise of a new trial, a local district attorney says Masters may no longer be a suspect. After a special prosecutor anno.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 13, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A couple accused of beating their toddler to death, tucking her body in a plastic box and dumping it in Galveston Bay have been indicted on charges of capital murder. Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said Wednesday he had yet to decide.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Three men could face the death penalty after being charged Tuesday with special-circumstances murder in the fatal shooting of a longtime PC World magazine editor during a home invasion robbery in Pittsburg, authorities said. Tremaine Amos, 25, of Bay P.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Apr 20, 2007 @ 1:53pm neoform

MSNBC -- The shooting on the Virginia Tech campus was only hours old, police hadn't even identified the gunman, and yet already the perpetrator had been fingered and was in the midst of being skewered in the media. Video games. They were to blame for the dozens.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Feb 18, 2007 @ 12:20am neoform

Yahoo News -- A Marine who said he never fired a shot in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man was sentenced Saturday to 8 years in military prison — the longest sentence yet in the case. Lance Cpl. Robert B. Pennington, 22, also was reduced in rank and given.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 1:19am neoform

MSNBC -- The mayor and police chief assured Bosnian immigrants Thursday that authorities would not stand for any backlash against them after an Bosnian teenager shot five people to death in a crowded shopping mall and then died in a shootout with police. As man.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 12:14am neoform

CNN -- A shooting Monday at a trendy mall in Salt Lake City has left as many as four or five people dead, Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag told CNN. Freitag said three people were wounded and sent to area hospitals... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 1:44pm mrmdc

MSNBC -- Police on Thursday were searching for a teenager and his mother, who they say gave the boy a handgun after he lost a fight and told him to take revenge. The warrants accuse both Vanessa Johnson, 44, and Clarence Johnson, 17, of second-degree murder of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 24, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

CNN -- A man charged with killing his wife in a frenzied knife attack testified Monday that it was his 12-year-old daughter who committed the crime, but he said he tried to cover it up... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 17, 2007 @ 9:38am mrmdc

SF Gate -- Answering her doorbell just after 10 p.m. Friday, Mary Jo Cooney looked through her peephole in San Francisco's Mission Terrace neighborhood and saw nothing... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jan 6, 2007 @ 7:53pm neoform

ABC News -- In a murder trial that began in California this week, a young mother is accused of using arsenic to kill her Marine husband to, according to prosecutors, pay for plastic surgery and a shopping spree... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 9:09pm neoform

The News Tribune -- A student was shot and killed at Foss High School before first bell Wednesday, and police reported capturing a suspect about two hours later... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 2:02pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Seven police officers were indicted Thursday on murder or attempted murder charges in a pair of shootings on a bridge that left two people dead during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 22, 2006 @ 9:46am mrmdc

CBS News -- A woman who claimed God ordered her to make a human sacrifice chose to throw her three children into San Francisco Bay instead of herself, making her guilty of murder, a prosecutor said during closing arguments at the woman's trial... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 4:31pm mrmdc

Washington Post -- O.J. Simpson's forthcoming book, "If I Did It," could launch a profitable new series for publisher Judith Regan and her parent company, Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Let me suggest that she follow up with another snuff book, maybe "If I Shot My Wife.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Thu Nov 16, 2006 @ 8:28am neoform

Philadelphia Local News -- Violence is almost never a good thing. The temptation to slap someone in the head, or inflict serious bodily harm - while understandable from time to time - rarely gets you anywhere but arrested, beaten down or killed... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 2, 2006 @ 4:24pm neoform

Bloomberg -- A 36-year-old man has been arrested and will be charged with murder in the deaths of five firefighters in a wildfire east of Los Angeles, authorities in Riverside County, California, said today... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 19, 2006 @ 10:36am neoform

Fresno Bee -- After Hurricane Katrina, Zackery Bowen and his girlfriend Adriane Hall appeared in news stories as examples of young people who had pressed on in the battered city despite evacuation orders and a lack of power and water... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A jury that returned five guilty verdicts against two elderly women in the murder-for-profit deaths of two homeless men still has work to do. Helen Golay, 77, was found guilty Wednesday of the first-degree murders of Kenneth McDavid, 50, in 2005 and Pa.. Read More