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Paramedics found Jessica Lynn Lopez in a hotel room with self-inflicted wounds and a suicide note. Hours later authorities found the body of a Camp Pendleton Marine's wife in brush near a Southern California lake. Two days later Lopez was charged with her murder.

Verna McClain told her fiance she had given birth to their child. But after she suffered a miscarriage, authorities said, she went looking for another baby to present to him. Now she's accused of killing a young mother to take one by force.

A Texas woman was charged with capital murder Wednesday after allegedly shooting another woman and snatching her baby in the parking lot of a pediatric clinic, reports say. The newborn was later found safe.

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday that news of a Chinese investigation into the death of a British businessman in China followed repeated British requests for an inquiry. Forty-one-year-old Neil Heywood was found dead in a hotel room in Chongqing, China's biggest metropolis, last November. His death was initially attributed to alcohol poisoning but foul play is now suspected.

The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader's wife to move money abroad, two sources with knowledge of the police investigation said.

An affidavit of probable cause in Florida's case against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of an unarmed 17-year-old says that the neighborhood watch volunteer "profiled" the victim, Trayvon Martin, and disregarded a police dispatcher's request that he await the arrival of police.

Forty five days after Florida cops refused to arrest George Zimmerman for killing an unarmed black teenager —sparking a national civil rights crusade —officials charged him Wednesday with second degree murder in Trayvon Martin’s death.

China’s Communist machine on Wednesday launched a coordinated chorus of approval of the decision to oust fallen top official Bo Xilai and arrest his wife in a murder probe, likely an effort to stave off criticism from the disgraced politician’s many supporters.

Police say they are investigating the shooting deaths of a mother and her three children at a remote Missouri campground as a possible triple murder-suicide.

A man charged with hacking a homeless man to death with an ax and eating some of his brain and an eyeball has pleaded not guilty to murder.