Speaking via phone to the AP on Monday, Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City Mo., confessed to the killing of Dr. George Tiller in May. He added that he plans to use the necessity defense at his trial.

John William Lomax III was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with murder of 20-year-old UConn football player Jasper Howard. According to Connecticut State court records, John William Lomax III is listed as having a prior conviction for a motor vehicle infraction in Bloomfield in 2007.

An arrest in the stabbing of UConn football player Jasper Howard was made Tuesday morning. John William Lomax was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with stabbing 20-year-old Jasper Howard according to his attorney, Deron Freeman. Lomax was initially to be charged in connection with the fight that led to Jasper Howard’s death, but not with murder. However, the state police have enough evidence and have charged Lomax with the killing.

Just hours after celebrating a victory over Louisville on Saturday, the University of Connecticut is now dealing with fatal UConn campus stabbing. Shortly after midnight, football player Jasper Howard was stabbed to death on campus.

The mother of shooter Dylan Klebold has finally opened up, in "O Magazine," about her feelings on the event. Dylan Klebold (pictured on the right) and his friend Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in CO on April 20, 1999, killing 12 students and a teacher, and injuring 21 others.

A Los Angeles County jury deadlocked this afternoon in the criminal trial of a Rancho Palos Verdes dad charged with throwing his 4-year-old daughter off a cliff to avoid child support payments. Today's hung jury is the second jury to return hopelessly deadlocked after a jury in a 2006 trial also couldn't reach a unanimous verdict as to whether or not the dad threw his daughter off a Rancho Palos Verdes cliff in November of 2000.

More than a thousand mourners packed a South Side Chigago church on Saturday. Sadly, they were there for Derrion Albert's funeral. Albert was a 16-year-old honor student with no gang affiliations. He was an innocent bystander who was killed in violence between two gang factions of students from Christian Fenger Academy High School.

Three have been arrested in the case of Derrion Albert's beating death, which was caught on tape and which I wrote about earlier. The three have have been charged with first-degree murder and will be tried as adults.

Facebook has pulled, for obvious reasons, a poll asking users to vote on the question "Should Obama be killed?"

Another example of gang violence, but one horrifically caught on tape. Sadder, the beating victim had no gang affiliation.

More disturbing details continue to trick out in the apparent murder of Bill Sparkman, 51, part-time census worker who some feel was killed in an anti-government act. A witness has come forward and described the body, when found, as hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery naked, gagged, with hands and feet bound with duct tape.