A few years ago, experts worried about a "new normal" of elevated violent crime in the U.S. Now the country is flirting with ...

Murders, overall violent crime and property crime are at their lowest rates in decades, but it’s unclear whether they are at record lows going back 125 years. See the sources for this fact-check ...

As the murder trial of 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony unfolds inside a Collin County courtroom, his defense team has asked jurors to consider a lesser charge. While most states have a distinction between ...

Prosecutors called it murder. Defense attorneys said it was self-defense. On Tuesday, a Texas jury swiftly agreed with prosecutors and found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of a ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Alex Murdaugh’s murder convictions Wednesday primarily focused on how a county clerk’s improper comments to the jury violated his right to a ...