Police: Girl set fire to mother's bed
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A 12-year-old girl set fire to her sleeping mother's bed and took off in the family car to fake the abduction of herself and her two younger siblings, police said.
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FEASTERVILLE, Pa. - A man angry that he got no presents for Christmas burned down his parents' house early the next morning, police said.  Steven Murray, 21, was charged with arson and risking a catastrophe in the blaze that broke out early Sunday. No one was injured.
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Five children and a woman in her 20s were killed early Saturday in a house fire in southwestern Pennsylvania, police said.
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A 7-year-old boy was charged with arson and second-degree homicide for setting a house fire that killed a retired school guidance counselor.
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A single bullet that may have been fired in celebration of the new year ripped through the wall of a house shortly after midnight Tuesday, killing an 11-year-old girl and a woman attending a party inside, investigators said.
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A mother who died in a house fire was expecting her fourth child in just over a month, her family confirms.
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Fire swept through a third-floor apartment on Chicago's North Side early Sunday, killing six children and injuring their mother and three siblings, authorities said.
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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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A teacher police believe was the target of a shooting rampage that killed her mother and a school colleague had planned to seek a restraining order against the suspect that day, court records show.
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A woman is raped at knifepoint in her own bed while her two young children sleep nearby, police say.
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A mother reacts angrily after the trial of a man accused of abusing her daughter and four other girls collapses.
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A woman accused of starting a series of house fires near Wrigley Field during the weekend was charged Monday with four counts of murder, authorities said.
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A woman authorities say slashed a young mother's throat and stole her newborn daughter was charged Wednesday with assault and kidnapping.
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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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Police reissue an appeal for information about a house fire in which a young mother and two daughters died in 1995.
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An infant girl who died in August 2005 of a high body temperature might have been put in a microwave, and her mother has been charged in the death, authorities said Tuesday.
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By Mark Bowes, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 6--Diane Proctor feared something terrible had happened to her  83-year-old mother when she pulled into the Hunt Club Apartments yesterday and  saw police and fire crews.