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 ...

(USA TODAY) South African athlete Oscar Pistorius was sentenced Tuesday to a maximum of five years in prison for the Valentine's Day, 2013, killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The ...

Henke Pistorius has spoken out in defence of his son Oscar, the Paralympian convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva ...

Oscar Pistorius’ prison sentence was increased to 13 years and five months by South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday, a decision that more than doubled the Olympic runner’s jail term for the ...

Oscar Pistorius was released from prison on parole two years ago and has lived a largely quiet life away from the public eye ever since. In February 2013, the world was stunned when it emerged that ...

Former track star Oscar Pistorius was released from prison on parole, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said on Friday. Pistorius spent almost 11 years in jail after the murder of Pistorius ...

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JOHANNESBURG — Oscar Pistorius was convicted of murder on Thursday by a South African appeals court that described the once-glittering story of the double-amputee Olympian and Reeva Steenkamp, the ...