An anti-government assailant stabbed a pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker who was campaigning Wednesday, police said, in an escalation of violent protests demanding political reforms in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Read moreA Dutch court on Monday sentenced an Afghan asylum seeker to more than 26 years in prison for stabbing two American tourists at an Amsterdam train station last year.
Read moreA Southern California man who police say went on a three-hour violent crime spree that left four people dead across two cities was charged Friday with murder, attempted murder, assault and other charges.
Read moreA 33-year-old Southern California man who “unleashed evil” in a series of random stabbings that began Wednesday afternoon killed four people, according to police.
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A man who was “full of anger” stabbed, slashed and robbed his way across two Southern California cities Wednesday in a bloody rampage that killed four people and wounded two others who were apparently targeted at random, authorities said.
Read moreThe fathers of two American teenagers jailed in Italy over the death of a police officer arrived in Rome to support them, with one saying his son didn’t know his friend had the 7-inch, military-style knife said to have been used in the stabbing.
Read moreItalian police on Tuesday provided more details – but also stoked more questions – surrounding the killing of a plainclothes Carabiniere officer who is said to have been stabbed to death in central Rome by a teenager from California during a drug deal gone bad.
Read moreOne of two American teenagers jailed in Rome for allegedly slaying a police officer said he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to a judge’s ruling obtained by The Associated Press on Monday.
Read moreA man carrying a knife in each hand and screaming “I will kill you!” attacked a group of schoolgirls and adults as he walked toward a school bus parked at a bus stop just outside Tokyo on Tuesday, killing two and injuring 16 before killing himself, officials said.
Read moreThe man accused of killing homeless San Diegans in a 2016 murder spree appeared in San Diego Superior Court Monday for a competency trial that will also determine whether he can assist in the defense of his case.
Read moreA Wisconsin teenager convicted of the attempted murder of her classmate at the behest of fictional boogeyman Slenderman has appealed her sentence of 40 years in a mental institution , arguing her mental condition led to unfair proceedings.
Read moreThe 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.
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