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Sacramento police are investigating a deadly home invasion robbery early Saturday in which one of the intruders was shot dead and three other people were wounded.

A surveillance video found at the Little Falls home of Byron Smith shows teenagers Nick Brady and Haile Kifer outside Smith's house on Thanksgiving Day before the homeowner shot them to death after they broke in.

A popular fifth-grade teacher fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor's house during what appeared to be an attempted late-night burglary, then discovered the teen was his son, state police said.

Nigerian police have uncovered 20 corpses hidden in a tunnel in the southeastern town of Onitsha, and suspect they were victims of armed robbers.

A New York City woman who died fighting off muggers likely put up a struggle to keep her cell phone -- because it had romantic texts from her husband on it, the heartbroken spouse said yesterday.

Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was shot and killed as she drove through Beverly Hills in a random robbery by a man on a bicycle, who later took his own life, police said Wednesday.

A Connecticut man will be sentenced to death for a night of terror inside a suburban home in which a woman was strangled and her two daughters tied to their beds, doused in gasoline and left to die in a fire.

Police charge a woman, who gained notoriety three years ago for her uncontrollable hiccups, with killing a man during a robbery, police say.

Seven suspects plead not guilty to first-degree murder charges in the slaying of a Florida couple who adopted 13 children, many with special needs.

The store may have looked like an easy mark, with an owner in his 70s known as a gentle, soft-spoken man. But Charles Augusto Jr. had been robbed before, and was prepared.