12 mins ago - A southwestern Illinois man is jailed on $1 million bond on charges that accuse him of fatally slashing his 18-year-old girlfriend's throat when she tried to break up with him.
1 hr 56 mins ago - Authorities say a Detroit man whose home had been broken into three times during the last week fatally shot an unarmed burglary suspect who verbally provoked him.
3 hrs ago - A hearing is tentatively scheduled in the case of two men accused of kidnapping and killing the student body president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
3 hrs ago - Donnell Roberts drove his red pickup truck to a Southern California casino, walked inside a building with a shotgun slung over his shoulder and headed to his former manager's office.
10 hrs ago - A 17-year-old boy accused of detonating two pipe bombs at San Mateo's Hillsdale High School has been ordered to undergo a mental competency evaluation.
13 hrs ago - Sharply criticized in recent years for this city's perennial high body count, Mayor Gavin Newsom didn't want to wait until 2010 to share this: San Francisco appears on track in 2009 to have its lowest number of murders in nearly 50 years.
13 hrs ago - A 25-year-old northern Idaho businessman told police he shot two Moses Lake, Wash., men early Sunday morning out of fear, but prosecutors say he instigated the shooting and should be charged with attempted murder.