Four children, mother found hanging in Texas
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HUDSON OAKS, Texas  - Three young girls and their mother were found hanged in a mobile home in central Texas but another child, an 8-month-old girl, survived after being discovered dangling by the neck, police said on Tuesday.
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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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GAINESVILLE, Texas  - At least four people were killed by flash floods in north Texas on Monday and several were reported to be missing as the waters began to recede and weather forecasters saw a drying spell ahead.
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On Sept. 22, a 34-year-old mother of two posted an Internet notice looking for companions for a group suicide. On Oct. 5, the police found her and three other women barely
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Four Mexican soldiers were arrested and accused of raping and murdering a 73-year-old woman in a case that has outraged Indian groups in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
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The crime scene was horrific: four slain children tucked in their beds and their father's body hanging from a bannister. The mother was missing.
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HOUSTON Aug. 19, 2004  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 ...
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Aside from some chilling details, the authorities said that they did not know how the bodies of the four women ended up .
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A woman found in her home with the decomposing bodies of her four daughters was suspected by a social worker of holding one of the girls hostage as early as April, city officials said.
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Three U.S. residents and seven others linked to the powerful Gulf drug cartel were arrested following a deadly shootout just across the border from Texas, Mexican officials said Tuesday
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Three adults and a 15-year-old girl were charged Wednesday in connection with two shocking discoveries police made when they found a missing 2-year-old: a severely burned and blood-streaked 11-year-old boy, and the body of his mother, buried in the back yard.
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OUSTON - In a highly unusual move and just hours before she was to have been put to death yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry halted the execution of Frances Newton, convicted in 1988 of killing her husband and two children.
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A man is arrested on suspicion of murder after a mother and her two children are found dead.
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A woman with a history of child neglect complaints was arrested in a drunken stupor after her two young boys were found dead in their apartment of malnutrition and dehydration, authorities said.
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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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Immigrant families, many with small children, are being kept in jail-like conditions in Texas and Pennsylvania, according to advocacy groups that say the Texas facility is inhumane and should be shut down.
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A young mother who may have been depressed apparently hanged three of her small daughters and herself in a closet using pieces of clothing and sashes, authorities said Tuesday. A fourth child, an 8-month-old daughter, was also found dangling in the closet but was rescued from the family's mobile home.