WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A young mother accused of killing her 5-year-old son by poisoning him with salt goes on trial this week in the New York suburbs.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man set a Pittsburgh-area fire that killed six people last fall, four of them children, because he wanted to get revenge on someone in the house, according to authorities.
A New Jersey man was sentenced Thursday to 110 years in prison in the rape of a girl and the stabbing death of her 6-year-old brother who had come to her defense.
FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey man was convicted of murder Thursday for bludgeoning his wife with a frying pan then strangling her, apparently after they argued over the dire state of their finances.
Before Officer Melvin Santiago was ambushed and shot to death, his killer, who’s name I will not mention, who was later killed by police, told a witness to “watch the news because I’m going to become famous.”
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- A Georgia man who police say intentionally killed his toddler son by leaving the boy inside a hot SUV was unhappy in his marriage and had looked at websites that advocated against having children, a detective testified Thursday.
Two northern New Jersey street gang members involved in a drive-by shooting that killed an innocent bystander at a convenience store are now headed to prison.
A Chinese-born chemist who worked for a decade for one of America's biggest pharmaceutical companies was a cold, calculating murderer who poisoned her husband rather than let him divorce her, a judge said Monday as he sentenced her to life in prison.