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The murder trial of a Florida mother accused of killing her daughter enters its seventh day after an emotional day of testimony by her mother opened the second week.

A judge rebuffed prosecutors' attempts to allow instant messages to be introduced as evidence that they say go toward her motive.

An outburst from a member of the courtroom gallery has interrupted jury selection in the murder trial of an Orlando woman accused of killing her daughter.

A man who recently told a relative he was having marital problems called 911 and informed a dispatcher that he had fatally shot his wife and three young children and was getting ready to kill himself, too, authorities and his grandmother said Saturday.

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 jeweler who was convicted of murdering his wife — although her body was never found — has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

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.

An Ohio sheriff says a 10-year-old boy is in juvenile custody after telling a neighbor he had shot and killed his mother.

An 88-year-old man accused of killing his wife of 70 years at her nursing home to "put her out of her misery" was charged Tuesday with murder, prosecutors 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.