Mich. woman sentenced for drugging child
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A suburban Detroit woman who admitted injecting heroin into her 12-year-old nephew and giving him and her 15-year-old niece heroin and cocaine was sentenced to eight years in prison.
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A Guilford drug addict was convicted on Friday of charges that he killed his aunt and two of her young children. The charges could lead to the death penalty.
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A woman who jumped from the Humber Bridge with her two-year-old daughter is jailed for 18 months.
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A federal appeals court threw out the 10-year prison sentence of a woman who rented her 9-year-old daughter to a pedophile more than 200 times, saying the punishment was too lenient.
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A former nurse was sentenced Thursday to life in prison on charges that she killed 10 hospital patients with drug injections because she found them too demanding.
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The parents of a 4-year-old girl have been charged with poisoning their daughter by giving her overdoses of prescription drugs to sedate her.
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A former substitute teacher who became pregnant during an affair with a 17-year-old high school football captain was sentenced on Tuesday to three days in jail and five years of probation.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to help them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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A Montana mother who allowed her 18-month-old baby daughter to inhale from a marijuana water pipe on several occasions was properly convicted, but should not have to spend five years in jail, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday.
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JAY, Okla. - Police arrested a woman after finding marijuana in a Christmas card she tried to give her jailed boyfriend. Dawn E. Smith, 44, of Grove, was arrested in connection with the incident at the Delaware County Jail.
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ST. CLOUD, Minn. - A St. Cloud woman avoided going to prison Thursday when she was sentenced for biting off a large chunk of another woman's nose.  Crystal Malmanger, 20, had been facing more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree assault.
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A mother has been arrested on charges that she gave crack to her 4-year-old son to "calm him down."
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A German woman gets 15 years in prison for  the manslaughter of eight of her newborn babies.
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A court in Ghana on Wednesday sentenced two teenage British girls found guilty in November of cocaine smuggling to one year in prison, a diplomat said.
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NORWALK, Ohio, Feb. 15 -- A couple who forced some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children to sleep in cages were sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for endangerment and abuse,  after emotional statements in which the parents said  they were  trying to keep the youngsters  safe.
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A mother and her partner are due to be sentenced over the murder of a 13-month-old baby.
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A woman who once was recognized as one of the nation's best trainers and handlers of cadaver-sniffing dogs was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in prison for planting bones and other fake evidence in cases she worked.