Homicide
Homicide is the formal term for one person killing another person, whether the act was criminal or not. There are four legal categories of homicide, which vary in their definitions and associ...
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Hurricane Katrina evacuees have been victims or suspects in less than half as many Houston homicides as they were at this point last year, a drop that officials say corresponds to fewer evacuees li...
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Baltimore ended the year with the city's highest homicide toll in eight years, despite a new police commissioner's modest success in slowing the spike in murders.The city recorded 282 homicides in ...
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Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of wha...
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Illinois State Police asked a prosecutor to charge one of its troopers with reckless homicide in a crash that killed two teenage sisters after he lost control of his cruiser at 126 mph.The state po...
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A baby sitter charged with murder clubbed a pregnant woman in the head repeatedly with a table leg, then cut her fetus from the womb in a bathtub where she later drowned the victim's three young ch...
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A man was cleared of murder but convicted of reckless homicide Wednesday for the death of a man who was dragged several blocks by a car and flung against a utility wire.Thomas Sewastynowicz, 50, fa...
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The cha-chick of a shell entering a shotgun's chamber rattled through the 911 line just before Joe Horn stepped out his front door.Horn, 61, had phoned police when he saw two men break into his nei...
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Homicide
Katrina-related Houston homicides drop
