JOLIET, Ill. - Drew Peterson showed nearly no emotion during his trial, yet the once famously jocular ex-Illinois police officer screamed out his innocence before he was sentenced to 38 years in prison.
PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom Tuesday that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.
PIERRE - South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the South Dakota Supreme Court has denied a request to rehear arguments in the case of a man who helped kill a guard at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.
ABERDEEN - Authorities say a South Dakota man accused of murdering a woman in Chicago had been dating her and allegedly pushed her out of a third-floor apartment window after an argument.
ABERDEEN - A South Dakota man accused of pushing a woman out of a third-floor window in Chicago is fighting extradition to Illinois to face a murder charge.
SIOUX FALLS - A judge has ruled that a 42-year-old man who admitting killing a 75-year-old Sioux Falls woman in her home in 2011 can face the death penalty.