Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards indicted in Washington for the 2007 shooting of Iraqi civilians plan to surrender to the FBI in Utah today, a person close to the case said, setting up a fight over the trial site. ...more

December 8, 2008

More than a year after the fatal shootings of 17 Iraqi civilians, five decorated military veterans who were Blackwater Worldwide security guards are headed to court in a case that strained diplomatic ties and raised the level of anti-Americanism in Baghdad. ...more

December 6, 2008

LAS VEGAS - A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced Friday to as many as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity." The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced as Judge Jackie Glass rattled off the punishment. Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions. ...more

December 5, 2008

Judge Michael Hunter has granted Leon Davis' motion to dismiss his standby counsel, Stephen Fisher, in a pair of cases involving five slayings. ...more

November 20, 2008

Villagers who fled fighting in this rebel-held town trickled home Thursday to find bodies of more than a dozen men in civilian clothes. They accused rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's forces of the slayings. ...more

November 7, 2008

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson's 7-year-old nephew was found dead in the back of an SUV on Monday, ending a frantic search that began after the shooting deaths of her mother and brother three days earlier. ...more

October 28, 2008

Leon Davis, accused of killing five people in Polk County in 2007, appeared in court this morning for the first time as his own attorney. ...more

October 16, 2008

Suspected of helping Steven Lorenzo drug, torture and kill two men in his Seminole Heights home, Scott Schweickert had information detectives badly wanted. ...more

October 12, 2008

The U.S. Marshals Service has captured a man sought in the 2006 slayings of two Pasco County teenagers, authorities said this morning. Luc Pierre-Charles Jr., 20, is being held at the Brevard County Jail, according to an online database search. The Pasco County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Pierre-Charles, who was on the Marshals' 15 Most Wanted List. ...more

October 7, 2008

O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder in 1995, was found guilty Friday of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. ...more

October 4, 2008