The California Supreme Court on Monday overturned a man’s murder conviction and ordered retrial, finding the trial court should have ordered competency proceedings when the suspect stopped taking antipsychotic medication and gave incoherent testimony at trial.
Read moreAn assailant stabbed a policeman Tuesday close to the Grand Place in Brussels’ historic center, before officers got to the scene and shot the suspect.
Read moreA knife-wielding man stabbed three people, one fatally, in Australia’s second-largest city on Friday in an attack police linked to terrorism.
Read moreTwo people were stabbed and a man arrested Friday at an address in central London that is home to the offices of Sony Music, police said.
Read moreA Latino customer claims in court that a Denny’s employee stabbed him as he ate his meal, nearly killing him.
Read moreA former employee of Fulton Trucking Co. claims in court then when he complained of unsafe working conditions, his boss told him, “Fuck you, you stupid son of a bitch, you’re fired,” and stabbed him in the chest with a screwdriver.
Read moreAn Oregon woman is suing the University of British Columbia over an October 2016 knife attack in her dorm room by a Saudi Arabian engineering student who said God instructed him to kill her after listening to passages in the Quran.
Read moreA rare terror trial opened Monday in Finland in the case of a Moroccan asylum-seeker and alleged Islamic State sympathizer charged with fatally stabbing two people and wounding eight others.
Read moreBritish police say a 78-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder for allegedly stabbing a burglar who had broken into his home.
Read moreA leading American investigator into the illegal ivory and rhino horn trade has been found stabbed to death in his home, Kenyan police and officials said Monday.
Read moreA Wisconsin girl painted as the ringleader of an attempt to stab her friend to death to appease a fictional boogeyman was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in a mental institution.
Read moreOne of two Wisconsin girls who tried to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman was sentenced Thursday to the maximum punishment of 25 years in a mental institution.
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The head priest of a prominent shrine in Tokyo was ambushed and killed with a samurai sword, apparently by her brother, who then took his own life, police said Friday.
Read moreA 22-year-old Ohio man who was convicted as a teenager for the brutal murder of his childhood friend asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday to reverse his death sentence, claiming he did not touch the knife used to kill the victim.
Read moreA well-known journalist for Russia’s leading news radio station was stabbed in the throat Monday by an unknown attacker who burst into her studio — the latest in a string of attacks on journalists or opposition activists in Moscow.
Read moreA man attacked people with a knife Friday at a shopping mall in southeastern Poland, killing one person and wounding seven others, police said. Shoppers detained the attacker until police could arrive.
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A second Wisconsin girl reached a plea deal Friday on charges of trying to stab her friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman, avoiding a trial that was set for next month.
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A Wisconsin girl who admitted to participating in the stabbing of a classmate to please horror character Slenderman will avoid prison after a jury determined that she was mentally ill at the time of the attack.
Read moreA handful of prospective jurors were excused Monday in the case of one of two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman, less than a week before her trial begins.
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One of two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman accepted a plea deal Monday for a lesser-included charge of attempted homicide.
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