PRETORIA, South Africa -- The chief prosecutor in Oscar Pistorius' murder trial on Monday exhaustively listed alleged inconsistencies in the athlete's account of how he killed girlfriend Reeva ...

Like Julius Malema, convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius was also charged with reckless endangerment relating to the unlawful ...

The mansion that Oscar Pistorius calls home in Pretoria is named after a breed of African eagle that swoops down on the savannahs and wetlands of the Kruger National Park, preying on lizards and ...

Update, 7:18 a.m. Eastern (June 4): Well, it was a 15-minute hearing instead of a 10-minute one, but the result went as expected: Magistrate Daniel Thulare ruled at the so-called "dock" in Pretoria ...

Oscar Pistorius gestures at the end of the fourth day of sentencing proceedings in the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. Pistorius will have a second chance at parole at a ...

JOHANNESBURG -- Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic runner who shot his girlfriend to death on Valentine's Day 2013, can leave prison and move to house arrest next week, South Africa's Department of ...

PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian described by a judge as a "fallen hero," was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in a South African prison for the murder of ...

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