A Florida orange grove owner who fatally shot a 21-year-old woman, is protected under the state’s controversial “no retreat” law, police said. However, her boyfriend is charged with second-degree murder because he allegedly was behind the wheel of the shooter’s stolen SUV.

A man charged this month with killing two Los Angeles women more than three decades ago may be linked to as many as 30 unsolved murders and “numerous sexual assaults,” Los Angeles police said.

Accidents happen, said the Supreme Court, but the criminal penalties can still be tough, at least for one “bungling bank robber.”

Cold Case: On May 4, 2007, Kara Kopetsky, a 17-year-old high school junior in Belton, Missouri, was not having a good day. She left a school text book at home, argued with a teacher, left school early — and vanished. Police say they have several persons of interest, but have not narrowed their investigation to [...]

The mother of a 17-year-old Rochester, New York, high school student who vanished over the weekend on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, says she did not give her daughter permission to go on the trip.

A hijacked tractor-trailer, its driver clinging to the outside, led police on a wild chase Tuesday on Interstate 75 just south of Atlanta, Georgia, officials said.

A Texas man has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter in the weekend drownings of four children. The children died when his car veered into a Houston bayou, police said. A fifth child — a 3-year-old girl — remained missing.

Christopher Wood shot and slashed his wife and three children in their beds, and then turned a shotgun on himself, police said. The 34-year-old Maryland man was having money trouble and left a note saying he was suffering from “psychological issues.”

Police in Boston, Massachusetts, are searching for a man suspected of killing one woman and robbing two others at gunpoint. The women may have met their assailant through their craigslist ads for massages and other personal services. Julissa Brisman, 26, was found shot to death Tuesday at a Boston hotel.

Police in Boston, Massachusetts, are searching for a man suspected of killing one woman and robbing two others at gunpoint. The women may have met their assailant through their craigslist ads for massages and other personal services. Julissa Brisman, 26, was found shot to death Tuesday at a Boston hotel.