A 47-year-old St. Joseph man was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday for using a meat cleaver to rob a store in St. Joseph. Nick Avila pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of first-degree ...

An Arizona mother who murdered her two kids, ages 7 and 9, using a meat cleaver "designed to cut the bones of animals" will die behind bars after being handed two consecutive life sentences on Friday.

They also found the meat cleaver in her car in a bag containing blood-stained clothing. When questioned by police through a Japanese interpreter, Inoue said she woke up around 4:30 a.m. with blood ...

A Southern California man who killed two women with a meat cleaver after a New Year's Eve party while his wife and son waited in a car outside was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the ...

A former Swiss university professor who pleaded guilty to instigating the 1995 meat-cleaver murder of a man who she claimed raped her while she was a college student in California was sentenced on ...