A 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.
Read moreA man stabbed eight people Friday in Finland’s western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking for more potential suspects in the attack.
Read moreJurors in the upcoming trials of two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman will be isolated from the public during the proceedings, a state judge ruled Thursday.
Read moreA Northwestern University professor will be returned to Chicago to face charges that he and an accomplice fatally stabbed a Chicago man late last month then drove across the country before surrendering in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The jury for one of two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to stab their friend to death to please a fictional boogeyman will be chosen from the county where the crime occurred, a state judge ruled Monday.
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An Egyptian security official says six foreign tourist, were wounded when a man attacked them with a knife in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
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Attorneys for one of the teens who blames her attempted murder of a classmate on inspiration by the fictional boogeyman Slenderman fought Monday to have her trial heard this fall by a sequestered jury.
Read morePolice have charged a Georgia mother with multiple counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of her husband and four of her five children.
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