There's nothing scarier than a clown. Except, possibly, a clown who is pointing a gun at you. Which was the unfortunate (for him) last image seen by former drug kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix as he was vacationing with family in Baja California this week.

New York City just isn't what it used to be: Last week, there were no murders committed in any of the five boroughs, and NYPD reports an overall 26 percent drop in killings from figures taken at this point last year.

The tragic tale of “Hiccup Girl,” a Florida woman famous for hiccuping, has ended predictably enough: with a first degree murder conviction.

Among the "grievances" Lawrence Loeffler used to justify the murder of his wife Betty to police was her insistence on putting the ketchup bottle lid on "too tightly."

An Oakland man enraged by a friend's attempt to disprove the existence of God reportedly retrieved his AR-15 assault rifle and fired several shots at the man, killing him instantly.

A Florida man who shot three of his neighbors killing two of them has cited the state's infamous Stand Your Ground law in his defense, but with a twist: William T. Woodward insists the "Bush Doctrine" of preventive war gives him the right to murder his neighbors before they murder him.

A woman in Pennsylvania is being held without bail after she was charged with callously murdering her baby shortly after giving birth to him in a sports bar bathroom.

An elderly resident of Spokane, Washington, whom friends say was still full of life, passed away yesterday morning from injuries he sustained during a violent attack by two teens that local police say had no discernible motive.

America's opportunistic race-hustlers, unsatisfied by their victory in the Trayvon Martin case, won't stop looking for reasons to rile up white people. So now the latest yapping point in our national conversation about race is the murder of Christopher Lane, the white Australian student allegedly killed for kicks by two black teenagers, with a white teenager as their accomplice in the shooting.

The three Oklahoma teens accused of murdering college student and up-and-coming baseball player Christopher Lane have been identified.

A South Miami man has apparently confessed to murdering his wife in a Facebook post that was followed shortly by a gruesome photo of the woman's body.

Police in Virginia believe they've solved a double-homicide case that went cold a few years back after a local rapper was found to have recorded a song in which he allegedly brags about committing the crime.

A North Carolina man who was thought to have died in a car crash is now believed to have been murdered by his wife after a funeral home found stab wounds that were overlooked by local authorities.

Authorities in South Carolina believe they have foiled a local man's plans to murder sex offenders using personal information gleaned from the state's sex offenders registry, the Associated Press reported.

Kai, the "hatchet-wielding hitchhiking hero" whose claim to Internet fame took a dark turn a few months back when he was accused of murdering an elderly lawyer, tried to take his own life yesterday, according to officials at the Union County jail where he is currently being held.

George Zimmerman has been found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.

Trayvon Martin was murdered. George Zimmerman murdered him. The jury may or may not see it that way; juries get a narrow and complicated view of things, and sometimes they get things wrong. But outside the jury box, there's no excuse.

The jury in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin will also be allowed to consider manslaughter charges, judge Debra Nelson ruled today. The judge has yet to rule on the prosecution's request that the jury also consider charges of third-degree felony murder—on the grounds that Zimmerman's violent confrontation with an unarmed teenager was an act of child abuse. UPDATE: The third-degree felony murder charges have now been ruled out.

Just a few days late for inclusion into John McPhee's legendarily boring New Yorker piece about how to find golf balls, comes news that a beloved golf ball scavenger at Cortlandt Park in the Bronx was stabbed 16 times shortly before a jogger discovered his body Thursday night.

A 21-year-old Kenyon college student was stabbed to death Friday in Alexandria during a violent confrontation between supporters and opponents of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.