When Ajike "AJ" Owens went to Susan Lorincz's door on June 2, 2023, the confrontation was one in a series of years-long disagreements between the two neighbors. Lorincz, 58 at the time, and Owens, 35, ...

A murder suspect can claim self-defense to justify killing an innocent bystander, the state’s highest court has ruled. The Supreme Judicial Court took up the Western Mass homicide case from 2023 ...

JOHNSTON COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- A grandfather in Johnston County shot his grandson and police say it was in self defense. It happened at a home in Benson on Kennedy Circle. Benson police say the ...

“Jab, cross, uppercut, repeat” — all to the beat of Rhianna’s “Breakin’ Dishes” — made for a high-energy self-defense workshop at Roble Arts Gym Wednesday night. Organized by the members of Alpha ...

A resident opened fire on a man who was one of four men who entered his Miami Gardens home Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in what police say was likely a home invasion. The wounded man, Ezekiel Leatherwood, ...

A 21-year-old man, previously acquitted of murder on self-defense grounds, was shot and killed in Cocoa. Police report the man, Jyuri Smith, was armed with a rifle when he confronted another man ...

Syracuse, N.Y. ― A man on trial for murder took the stand Wednesday to testify that he stabbed his boyfriend in self-defense. Over two hours of testimony, Tyler Kilmer changed his version of what ...

The lead defense attorney of former FBI Director James Comey could be removed from representing Comey in his federal criminal trial if prosecutors get their way. Lawyers filed a motion on Sunday night ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that Kenneth Santana-Rodriguez, charged with first-degree murder in the January 2023 shooting at the Holyoke Mall, can argue self-defense ...