Deputies say woman tortured, 6 charged
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A woman who authorities said was sexually abused, beaten and stabbed while held captive for at least a week was repeatedly called a racial slur during the attacks, the victim's mother said.
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LOWBER, Pa. - A woman was charged with maiming and mutilating animals for performing two cat operations in her home, police said Tuesday.  Loria Bauer was a do-it-yourself vet who mangled the paw of a kitten Nov. 15 when its owner paid $50 for the procedure.
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A woman accused of strangling her four young children was charged with murder Wednesday, a day after hundreds of people attended the youngsters' funeral.
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Five children and two disabled women were locked in a basement cell, fed meager food and rarely allowed to bathe, by a couple facing criminal charges over their care, authorities said. The couple were paid $9,000 a month to care for the seven.
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A couple is being sought on child abuse charges for allegedly torturing seven children who lived with them &#151; pulling out their toenails with pliers, delivering electric shocks and striking them with a hammer, authorities said Thursday.
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Clayton, NC -- A woman apparently upset about the firing of a friend took five people hostage at a Caterpillar heavy-equipment factory Tuesday, police said.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has charged that the American military has intentionally used psychological and sometimes coercion &quot;tantamount to torture
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Six suspects accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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LINCOLN, Neb. - Lincoln police said a 50-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with child abuse and criminal mischief after having her 12-year-old granddaughter drive her to her niece's house, where the grandma broke five windows.
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A convicted murderer was charged in the death of one of six women whose bodies were found in a neighborhood frequented by drug addicts and prostitutes.
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The day after drowning her five children in the bathtub, Andrea Yates sat in a psychiatric unit at the county jail and asked for a razor to shave her head, a case worker testified.
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A fugitive Florida couple accused of  beating and chaining five children, pulling out their toenails  with pliers and starving them, were caught in Utah, a sheriff's  deputy said on Saturday.
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RED BANK, Tenn. - Two young women complained to police that they were spanked by their 57-year-old employer for mistakes on the job, and the boss now faces criminal charges.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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LOS ANGELES -- The woman accused of stalking Catherine Zeta-Jones and threatening to chop her up pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court Wednesday to multiple charges.
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A 27-year-old is due in court charged with grievous bodily harm with intent on a 75-year-old woman in her home.
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Gilmore, AR - The alleged kidnapper of Patricia Ann Miles was back in a Crittenden County courtroom this afternoon for an arraignment hearing.