The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's report listed the probable cause of death as asphyxiation due to "manual compression of the neck."

Two fatalities pushed Baltimore's annual homicides over 300, the first time the city has recorded numbers this high in 16 years.

A Maryland woman’s death after a botched butt surgery in a New York basement has been labeled a homicide, The New York Daily News reports.…

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Yesterday afternoon, a security guard was killed at a Manhattan federal building after a gunman opened fire on the premises. After shooting the guard, he…

The death of NY inmate Samuel Harrell has been ruled a homicide following alleged abuse at the Fishkill Correctional Facility.

A New York medical examiner has concluded what many suspected after watching video of Eric Garner’s fatal police encounter: The Staten Island man died as the result…

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Via: foxbaltimore.com Thursday eveing, Police were dispatched to a shooting around 9:20.  The shooting occurred in the 300 blk of S. Augusta ave.  The victim is a black female approximately 19 years old. She was shot in the head taken to an area hospital, where she was pronounced dead. For more on this story, see […]

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Via FoxBaltimore.com The  mother of Christopher Brown, a Baltimore County teen killed by an off duty cop, demands that the cop be arrested.  Ten days after the death of her son and no arrest has been made. Brown’s mother believes there is a double standard in how the case is being handled. Read Full Story […]

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Via: Foxbaltimore.com Police are investigating two murders that happened overnight. The first killing happened just after 11:00 p.m. in East Baltimore. The other murder happened in northeast Baltimore around 1 a.m. The victim was killed on Belair Rd, near Clifton Park Terrace. To read more click here

NEW ORLEANS — As Mike Ainsworth walked his two sons to a school bus stop, he heard a woman being carjacked scream, and ran to help. The woman was not hurt, police said, but the Good Samaritan was shot to death by a suspect who fled. SEE ALSO: Man Creates House From Shredded Money (VIDEO) […]

ATLANTA — For the first time in almost half a century, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation’s top 15 causes of death, bumped by a lung illness that often develops in elderly people who have choked on their food. SEE ALSO: Salt Lake Is Gayest City In Nation A Broken Heart Can […]

New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina. SEE ALSO: Man Stabbed At Airport, Gets On Flight Anyway According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before […]