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A county sheriff's deputy killed his ex-wife in a convenience store parking lot Monday, then shot a Virginia state trooper before being gunned down himself, police said.

A 10-year-old boy escaped through the window of a minivan and swam to shore to get help just as his mother drove the van into New York's Hudson River, killing herself and three other children, police said Wednesday....

A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for investigation of first-degree murder in the death of a baby boy born prematurely and found decapitated, Centralia police say.

A California teenager kidnapped his 5-month-old baby and fatally stabbed the child before he was shot and killed by deputies, police said.

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

An Indiana teenager who police say strangled his 10-year-old brother to satisfy an urge to kill that he likened to hunger pleaded guilty to murder Monday, and his defense attorney described him as remorseful.

A man shot his grandson to death during an argument at a home in Pasadena early this morning. The shooting occurred about 2 a.m. at the house in the 4400 block of Foxmeadow near Allen-Genoa, said Vance Mitchell, a spokesman for the Pasadena Police Department.

One of Drew Peterson's former wives was found dead, another went missing, and yet the former police sergeant had steadfastly – some say brashly – maintained his innocence in the face of suspicions by police and the victims' families.