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Authorities in suburban Chicago have charged a high school student in the deaths of his parents, who were found beaten in their home.

An Indiana woman shot her three children and set the family's house on fire before turning the gun on herself, police said.

The American mother accused of murdering her three young children appeared in court and was remanded in custody ahead of a trial date, local media reported Saturday.

California-born Theresa Riggi sobbed uncontrollably Friday and had to be helped into the building by two female security officers as she made her first appearance in court, where she learned she will face a triple murder trial, according to The (Glasgow) Herald.

Police say a man fatally shot his 9-year-old daughter and her baby sitter in a New York City suburb.

The Michigan couple were trying to cut a tree when the man hit his wife in the neck with the chain saw.

Frederick man who killed his wife, three children last week owed more than $450,000, police say.