A Wilmington man will spend the next 25 years in prison for shooting and killing a man in 2017.

Deputies in North Carolina say a man walked into a sheriff's office and confessed to killing his 15-year-old daughter.

A Bladenboro man pleaded guilty Monday morning to murdering his father's girlfriend in Bladen County Superior Court. Marquail Burney, 25, has been sentenced to up to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and felony larceny. 

A Tennessee convict accused of killing a corrections administrator and escaping prison could face the death penalty if convicted of first-degree murder, a judge told the prisoner Wednesday.

A federal judge has sentenced a former Blackwater security contractor to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq.

Investigators are split on whether the Dayton shooter intentionally killed his sister, who was one of the first nine he killed, the city's police chief said Tuesday.

A circuit court judge has denied Steven Avery's request for a new trial based on investigators' handling of bone evidence in the Teresa Halbach murder.

A man who was "full of anger" stabbed, slashed and robbed his way across two Southern California cities in a bloody rampage that killed four people and wounded two others who were apparently targeted at random, authorities said.

Canadian police said Wednesday they believe two fugitives suspected of killing a North Carolina woman and her Australian boyfriend as well as another man have been found dead in dense brush in northern Manitoba.