Murder

WATERTOWN - A judge has ordered a South Dakota man accused in a child's death to have no contact with the child's mother and other relatives.

YANKTON - A man accused of assaulting and killing another man is waiting for a psychiatric evaluation before his case proceeds.

WATERTOWN - Authorities have filed a second-degree murder charge against a South Dakota man arrested for abusing a toddler who later died.

HURON - A Huron man accused of trying to kill his pregnant wife has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.

RAPID CITY - Bond has been set at $500,000 for a man accused of shooting and killing another man outside a Rapid City motel.

JOLIET, Ill. - Drew Peterson showed nearly no emotion during his trial, yet the once famously jocular ex-Illinois police officer screamed out his innocence before he was sentenced to 38 years in prison.

PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom Tuesday that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.

PIERRE - South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the South Dakota Supreme Court has denied a request to rehear arguments in the case of a man who helped kill a guard at the State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls.

ABERDEEN - Authorities say a South Dakota man accused of murdering a woman in Chicago had been dating her and allegedly pushed her out of a third-floor apartment window after an argument.

MITCHELL - State prosecutors in South Dakota say a teenager's alleged murder confession should be reinstated because she freely gave it to police.