Mother charged with beating children on U.S. plane
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A California mother was charged with beating her children, aged 2 and 4, on a commercial aircraft and interfering with the flight crew.
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The son of former Liberian President  Charles Taylor is charged in the US over alleged torture in Liberia.
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A woman was arrested on child abuse charges Tuesday after her 3-year-old daughter was found dead in a filthy motel room where they lived with the woman's five other children, authorities said.
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Four people, including a former member of Guyana's parliament, have been charged with planning to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. officials said on Saturday.
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A 34-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with using a hammer and pliers to punish her son for not doing his homework.
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An American who lost his mother in the first plane to hit the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks pressed an FBI investigator in a German court Tuesday for more details on the hijacking, wondering if her last minutes were "torture."
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A pilot who survived the crash of a small plane that killed three passengers was arrested Sunday and charged with manslaughter, authorities said.
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Seven Texas children found abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage have leveled new accusations against the adoptive mother who left them there, claiming that she struck them with switches and a cane and had repeatedly threatened to take them to Africa if they ever told law officers about earlier abuse reports, child welfare officials say.
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FOLSOM, Calif. - The mother of a 13-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly driving her son to a fight with another boy, then cheering him on as he struck his smaller opponent.
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A Brazilian public prosecutor accused two U.S. pilots and four domestic aviation controllers on Friday of contributing to an air crash last year that killed 154 people.
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The mother of a 4-year-old boy whose foot was mauled by the family's pit bull puppy was charged with child endangering, authorities said Saturday.
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Police charged a mother Monday with bludgeoning her 14-year-old daughter to death with a hammer and shovel as the girl slept.
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At turns confused, sad and defiant, even belligerent, the mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of molesting appeared in court Friday for the first time
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HAMBURG, Germany  - In harrowing exchanges before  a German court, the son of a Sept. 11 victim asked an FBI agent  Tuesday to detail his mother's ordeal in the "hellish" minutes  before her plane hit New York's World Trade Center.
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A 3-year-old who was the youngest of three severely burned sisters died Tuesday, and police said her mother, accused of setting the girls on fire, will be charged with capital murder.
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A Danish model accused of hitting a flight attendant on a plane from Amsterdam to Miami will participate in an anger management program under an agreement announced Tuesday.
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An American woman due in court today charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was allegedly showing the child off to admirers just hours before she was arrested.