oscar pistorius trial

A South African judge on Friday found Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp but declared him not guilty of murder. Prosecutors said they were disappointed by the ruling but would decide on whether to appeal only after sentencing...

During his trial, Oscar Pistorius sometimes retched and sobbed. The double-amputee Olympian sobbed again on Thursday, this time in apparent relief as a judge said the evidence did not support a murder conviction for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp...

As Oscar Pistorius' lawyer put it Friday, the murder trial of the double-amputee athlete comes down to a sliver of time - the seconds before he fired four gunshots through a closed toilet door and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The world will have to wait another month to hear a verdict in a globally televised five-month trial whose blend of shock and celebrity, framed by the rise and fal