Here's what happened to Kitty Genovese in 1964, including how many witnesses there were to her murder and how it led to ...

Cuttack: Orissa high court on Friday acquitted a 42-year-old murder convict out on bail, who spent 14 years in jail, due to insufficient evidence. According to case records, a 20-year-old girl of ...

A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 was executed by firing squad early Friday evening – a method used for the first time in 15 years ...

Each year across Ohio, dangerous dogs attack, maim and sometimes kill people. State law does little to hold owners ...

Katrin Ivanova, 43, Vanya Gaberova, 30, and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, were convicted at London's Old Bailey court, charged with conspiracy to gather information useful to an enemy between August 2020 ...

By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night in the first such execution in the United States since 2010.

Courageous rights defenders are jailed all over the world for speaking truth to power. Freedom House documents their cases ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 1996, at the end of a second trial -- in which the judge barred much of the sex abuse evidence -- Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to two consecutive ...

Nicole B. Blotnicki, 32, of Glenview. A woman has been sentenced to 40 days in jail after she pleaded guilty to keeping over two dozen cats in a U-Haul van for months, resulting in severe medical ...