A man convicted of killing a 2-year-old and injuring her mother, aunt and two young cousins in an attack with a car at a McDonald’s restaurant three years ago has died in prison.

A Danville, VA police officer shoots and kills 12-pound dog; owners don’t know why.

A Boston medical student has been ordered held without bail on charges that he fatally shot a masseuse he had lured to his hotel through Craigslist. Twenty-two-year-old Philip Markoff said nothing during a brief hearing Tuesday.

A man convicted in the deadly stabbing of a female neighbor is asking a state panel to spare his life. Robert Newland was convicted in 1987. He is sentenced to die Tuesday for the killing of 27-year-old Carol Sanders Beatty, a former state and national amateur diving champion killed in the garden of her home in on St. Simons Island.

Convicted cop killer, Troy Davis, has been granted a stay of execution. The stay was granted late Tuesday afternoon. Davis was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989.