Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in Little Rock in the trial of Curtis Lavelle Vance. He has pleaded not guilty to capital murder, rape and burglary.

A mother’s plot to blame a stranger for killing her sons went awry when one of the boys survived and told police how Michelle Kehoe cut his throat, then moved on to his younger brother, an Iowa prosecutor said Thursday.

A Mississippi middle school teacher could face the death penalty after she was found guilty Tuesday of fatally shooting and stabbing her lover’s pregnant fiancé in 2006.

A small, rural town in the hills of New Hampshire was jolted by a home invasion over the weekend that left a mother dead and her young daughter severely injured. Two teens are charged with murder and two with robbery. Steven Spader, 17, allegedly killed and maimed the victims with a machete.

Richard Samuel McCroskey III, a 20-year-old “Horrorcore” rapper, has been arrested in the slaying of a Virginia pastor, his daughter, her friend and the pastor’s estranged wife. The victims were beaten or bludgeoned, police said, and the crime scene was so horrific, investigators won’t talk about it.

A former sheriff’s deputy in Texas, who spent more than 25 years with the Sheriff’s Office, became subject of murder case due to sniffer dogs and this story of how a veteran law enforcement officer became a murder suspect is at the heart of a controversy over an investigative forensic tool called dog-scent lineups.

A Florida death-row inmate convicted of abducting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 has died in prison.

Chicago police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding three more people believed connected to last week’s videotaped fatal beating of 16-year-old Derrion Albert. Four teens already have been arrested and charged with murder. Investigators are trying to enhance the video to identify the assailants.

A Tampa, Florida teen is accused of killing a man, hiding his body in a closet, and showing it off to friends.  The 16-year-old suspect appeared in court Tuesday, charged with first degree murder as an adult.

Susan Denise Atkins, a former member of the Manson family who killed pregnant actress Sharon Tate during a two-day killing spree in 1969, has died. She was 61.

The State rest its case Friday afternoon as a jury decides whether 25-year-old Colin Broughton should receive life in prison or the death penalty.

Mesac Damas is charged with first-degree murder in deaths of wife and five children.

Yale University employee Raymond Clark, 24, has been taken into custody in connection with the killing of Yale student Annie Le, police said. A judge issued a search warrant for his home and a body warrant for his DNA, said James Lewis, the police chief in New Haven, Connecticut.

Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.

A soldier who had been slated to begin serving at Fort Campbell in Tennessee was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing his wife