A Japanese woman has been arrested after calling the police when a hitman she hired to kill her lover's girlfriend failed to do the job. The 32-year-old woman from Tokyo was arrested for incitement to murder, the Daily Yomiuri newspaper reports. The woman hired a private detective she found on the internet to get rid of her rival who she suspected of seeing her lover. She paid the detective 1 million yen to do the job. When the detective failed to murder the woman, she called the police in frustration and was then arrested, along with the detective.

An HIV-positive ex-convict, who admitted to attempting to kill several police officers and a psychiatric hospital employee by biting them or spitting blood in their faces, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Robert Murray, 33, was not in court when state Supreme Court Justice William A. Wetzel imposed the sentence. Murray says the Hannibal Lecter-type restraints the judge ordered him to wear were "humiliating," refusing to wear them to court.

Her testimony helped put her former boyfriend on death row. Now Amber Frey is hoping her experiences in the Scott Peterson murder case will serve as inspiration for other women facing rough times.

Minutes after pleading guilty to a gang-related stabbing death, a man gets married in the same courtroom. Joshua Martin Miracle, 26, faces death or life in prison without parole in the stabbing death of Elias Raymond Silva on October 3.

A 16-year old Texas boy is shot and killed after stealing another teenagers bicycle. Garland,Texas Police arrest 19-year old Kevin Gordon for the murder of Dequorius Allen, who reportedly stole Gordon's bicycle from his front yard Friday night.