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Former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, was released on Friday from a Florida jail on $1 million bail, a sheriff's spokeswoman said... It was not immediately clear how the Zimmermans came up with the bond money.

George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, was chastised by a judge as “flaunting the system.”

George Zimmerman suffered two minor cuts to his scalp but no serious head trauma during his fatal confrontation with Trayvon Martin, according to his medical report.

A Florida judge will decide whether to set a second bond for the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin.

George Zimmerman, the man charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin, failed on at least two opportunities to identify himself as a neighborhood watch volunteer before he shot the unarmed teenager, a police investigator wrote in a report made public on Tuesday.

A confidential report released Tuesday from Florida prosecutors shows that George Zimmerman passed a lie detector test the night he shot Trayvon Martin.

The legal team for George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin, has released Mr. Zimmerman's written statement and several audio and video interviews with investigators, in which Mr. Zimmerman says he was ambushed and then pummeled so violently by Mr. Martin that his head “felt like it was going explode” and that the teenager had covered his nose and mouth before reaching for Mr. Zimmerman’s firearm.

Trayvon Martin's killer George Zimmerman used money raised for his defence fund to pay off credit cards and other personal debts, recordings of prison conversations released by prosecutors Monday suggest.

The wife of Trayvon Martin's shooter was charged with perjury Tuesday, accused of lying when she told a judge that the couple had limited funds during a hearing that resulted in her husband being released on $150,000 bond....

An attorney says George Zimmerman has returned to Florida so he can turn himself in to police after having his bond revoked.