Mother, three children are slain in Texas
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A mother and her three children were found slain Monday in a West Texas town. A man who was scheduled to take the children to school discovered the bodies in a Lubbock apartment, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported.
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A woman found in her home with the decomposing bodies of four girls faces murder charges, and authorities believe she is their mother, officials said Thursday
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A woman beat her cousin's 4-year-old son to death while two of her own children held him down and a third watched, all because the boy soiled his pants, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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An apparent family dispute turned deadly when a gunman burst into a Thanksgiving Day gathering and opened fire, killing three people, police said.
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Floods killed five people in Texas including a five-year-old girl and her grandmother who were swept away after torrential rain lashed the north of the state, local media reported.
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A relative found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home Tuesday morning, all of them dead but an 8-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said
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The father of a 3-year-old who was beaten to death during an attack on her day care center has been named as the suspect in the rampage, which also left two women hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
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(11/30/04 - HUNTSVILLE, TX) - A Houston woman set to die Wednesday night for murdering her husband and two children may be spared.
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"Multiple" victims were found Saturday at a clothing store in a strip mall, authorities said. They did not immediately confirm a report that four people had been killed.
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A fire engulfed a dilapidated house early Sunday, killing a mother and four children who were staying in the home despite relatives' warnings that it was unsafe, officials said.
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Six people, believed to be from the same family, are shot dead at a rural home near Seattle in the western US.
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Three children, two American soldiers and an Afghan policeman died in two new attacks by people suspected of being Taliban rebels in Afghanistan, Afghan and American officials announced Saturday.
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Assailants slit the throats of a mother and her three children Wednesday in southern Iraq, where the family had fled to escape threats that they had cooperated with the Americans.
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Gov. Rick Perry should delay tonight&#39;s scheduled execution of a Harris County woman who was condemned for the murders of her husband and two children, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Tuesday.
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Three brothers and a friend were killed in a neighborhood not far from the French Quarter, and two other people were gunned down in separate incidents hours later, authorities said Saturday.
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A relative found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home Tuesday morning, all of them dead but an 8-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said.
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A man convicted in the slayings of a South Texas mother and her teenage son at their home nine years ago was executed Thursday.