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John Mahoney, 27, shot his father three times while he slept in a recliner on the morning of Dec. 27, 2007.

A vote for the clinics in Louisiana could mean that Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote is crucial to both sides, also will be a decisive fifth vote in favor of abortion clinics in Texas.

More than 30 years since the bodies of young women started turning up in alleyways and garbage bins in south Los Angeles, attorneys are set to give opening statements in the long-awaited "Grim Sleeper" trial on Tuesday.

A judge cleared the way Thursday for a New Mexico teenager who shot and killed his parents and three younger siblings to be sentenced as a juvenile and released from state custody by the time he turns 21 after the teen's attorneys argued he could be psychologically rehabilitated.

A 13-year-old girl who police say was abducted and killed by a Virginia Tech student is being remembered by friends as an "angel" on Earth as investigators work to piece together the final moments of the teen's life.

The husband-and-wife business partners from Edgewater, found dead with their daughter in an apparent murder-suicide, ran a business selling luxury goods to police.

Prosecutors Tuesday called Arthur Haskoor — out of a hospital for a drug overdose, and before a Superior Court Judge on charges of stabbing his wife to death at their home in Plumstead — a danger to the community as they sought to increase his $1 million bail, NJ.com reports.

The standoff that brought a mass of police to New Egypt Tuesday has ended, with one person in custody and his wife dead of stab wounds, authorities say. Arthur Haskoor, 50, is accused of killing his wife of 20 years and threatening to kill police, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office...

Earlier this week, we wrote about a small bit of good news in the wake of a tragedy We'd also reported this week on the deaths of Heidi Errickson, and her brother, Frederick Errickson, in Warren Township. Authorities say Heidi Errickson's finance, John Reno, fatally shot them both before turning a gun on himself...

Authorities have released a harrowing account of the murder-suicide that left a brother and sister dead — both by the sister's fiance's hand.