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The last leader of Argentina’s dictatorship got 25 years in prison for his involvement in the kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people in a clandestine concentration camp.

Undefeated boxer Edwin Valero arrested in Venezuela after his wife's body found in a hotel room.

Sex offender John Albert Gardner pleads guilty to murdering two teenage girls in San Diego County after prosecutors agree not to seek the death penalty.

Mexican police arrested a former producer of the "Survivor" television series on Thursday on suspicion of murdering his wife, found strangled in the Caribbean resort of Cancun.

The Associated Press: The brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was charged with manslaughter in the death of their 70-year-old father in what prosecutors called a violent attack during a "trivial" argument over use of the family telephone, the district attorney's office said Thursday.

Mark Kerrigan, 45, was indicted by a Middlesex Superior Court grand jury in the

An anti-abortion activist who murdered one of America's few late-term abortion providers was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison in a case that galvanized both sides of the bitter U.S. debate over abortion.

A 92-year-old woman is charged with murder following the discovery of her 98-year-old husband's body at their home in Australia, police say.

Former NBA star Jayson Williams was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for fatally shooting a hired limo driver in 2002, ending an eight-year legal odyssey by tearfully apologizing to the victim's family. He will be eligible for parole in 18 months.

A Saudi Arabian prince appears in court accused of the murder of his aide in the five-star Landmark Hotel in London.

An attorney testified that the fourth wife of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson talked about extorting money from her husband just days before she vanished in 2007.