Clinton West caressed the concrete."This is where my son's blood spilled," he said. "Just because I don't see it don't mean I don't feel it, and it don't feel right."Tears...

A white towel soaks up the blood oozing from Derrick Tye's skull."(Doctors) put 14 stitches on the outside of my head and who knows how many on the inside," he...

Blood covered Terra Keil's hands, and her cries echoed against the jail cell walls.But the Dubuque County Jail inmate said she took little notice of her own tears;...

Abby Chapman wonders if the baby would have had her eyes."The what-ifs weigh on your mind," she said. "What if I had become a mom? What would my life have...

Rosemary Howell clutched the dying man's hand.He blinked his eyes at her as he lay motionless between her garbage bins. Blood from a stab wound stained her sidewalk."OK, you hang...

Two papers rested on the table in the jury room at the Jo Daviess County Courthouse in Galena on Wednesday afternoon.One paper demanded David Damm's execution.The second paper said that...

 Mona Kilborn holds her sign high - "An Illegal Alien Killed My Mother."Her voice carries as she tells her story, and a crowd draws near."Let me describe the terror I...

David "GuTTa Mann" Rhone just wanted to be discovered.But not like this.His first hip-hop release attracted the attention of U.S. Marshals rather than the intended music producers.On Wednesday, the 23-year-old...

Authorities still are refusing to release the name of the locksmith who killed an evicted apartment tenant Saturday in Dyersville. When asked to cite the portion of the Iowa Code...

It burned.His eyes, his lungs, his face -- Keith House's entire head felt like it was ablaze."I started gagging," he said. "Stuff was coming out of my nose, and I...