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South African police Thursday arrested double amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius and said he would be charged with murder after his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot and killed at his home earlier in the morning.

An elderly Miami man faces a second-degree murder charge after he grabbed a knife from a kitchen drawer and stabbed his wife to death after she wouldn't cook him a hamburger, authorities said.

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend early Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of his coach and general manager.

Human remains found in a concrete-filled drum in a New Jersey home belong to a mother who vanished Aug. 17 after a fight with her husband, her family said Saturday. Natalie and family pick up Zara from the shelter.

Newly released police records show a Utah man held in the slaying of his 4-year-old stepson became increasing violent toward ...