Murders

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A northern New Jersey man accused of killing his wife and stuffing her body in a suitcase last year has been indicted on murder charges.   Union County prosecutors say 40-year-old Abayuba Rivas, of Elizabeth, also faces three counts of hindering apprehension, two weapons offenses and single counts of child endangerment and desecration of human remains in the indictment hande

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Three of four teens charged with fatally beating a Chinese graduate student at the University of Southern California last year appeared in Los Angeles County Superior Court for a hearing Tuesday to determine if they will face a murder trial.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A man believed to have killed his ex-wife and five of her relatives earlier this month in the Philadelphia suburbs killed himself with a combination of drugs after the slayings, authorities said.

PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) -- Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his 89 years. His hands are still scarred and rough from decades in the east Mississippi sawmills. He has a muscular build even as he maneuvers in his wheelchair. Time has not softened his views and he remains an ardent segregationist.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A writer telling the story of a serial killer who inspired the play and 1944 movie "Arsenic and Old Lace" hopes the Connecticut Supreme Court will order records related to her incarceration in a state mental hospital to be opened.

TABERNACLE, N.J. (AP) — Mourners have said their goodbyes to three children shot by their mother before she killed herself at their southern New Jersey home.

ATGLEN, Pa. (AP) -- The mother of a man accused of striking his girlfriend's 3-year-old with a frying pan, hanging him upside down and hitting him, and whipping him with a metal rod said Friday that her son is a good kid and she doesn't believe he beat the boy to death.

A Pennsylvania couple went car shopping, bought pizza and took a nap as her unresponsive 3-year-old son lay dying after weeks of relentless torture that included being hung upside down and beaten, officials said Thursday.

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) Seven people face charges in last month's street shooting death of a 14-year-old girl, who authorities say wasn't the intended target.

PHOENIX (AP) -- Jodi Arias' guilt has been determined. The only thing that remains is whether she dies for killing her ex-boyfriend.