Pa. caregivers of 7 held in home charged
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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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An 11-month-old boy was fatally beaten at a home day center, and authorities have charged a 9-year-old boy also attending the day care with the death and the center's owner with putting the child in harm's way.
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Federal prosecutors announced more charges on Wednesday in a Philadelphia corruption scandal whose defendants include the former city treasurer, a prominent supporter
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Abuse and neglect was so rampant at a South Side nursing home, two former employees dubbed it &quot;the house of death, terror and filth,&quot; a whistleblower lawsuit unsealed Monday alleged.
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ST. LOUIS - A 34-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with using a hammer and pliers to punish her son for not doing his homework.  Police say Nancy Boyd-Porter had her other sons hold down the victim while she hit him in the hand with a hammer.
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W.R. Grace & Co. and seven current  or former executives were charged on Monday with conspiring to  endanger residents in Libby, Montana, and concealing the health  risks from asbestos-contaminated vermiculite, the U.S. Justice  Department said.
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LEVITTOWN, Pa. - Police in Bucks County have charged 12 women after an investigation into prostitutes who allegedly have been advertising on the Web site Craigslist.
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The husband and wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty in the deaths of 35 patients who perished in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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By Edward Lewis, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Dec. 8--PITTSTON TWP. -- Police Chief Stephen Rinaldi said other officers have cancelled vacations, personal days and agreed to work more hours to cover shifts left open with the arrest of part-time officer Charles Byra Jr.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - A 79-year-old woman has been charged with using her wooden cane to strike police officers who arrived at her home to check on her welfare.  St.
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Seven people will face a court on charges relating to postal ballot fraud in Bradford at the last election.
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Police arrested a woman Friday after her 7-year-old son told authorities she burned him in an oven, and a day-care worker was arrested for not reporting the attack, authorities said.
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A South Carolina woman accused of promising couples she would be their surrogate mother has been charged with bilking at least six people out of $14,000, police said Thursday.
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Two physicians have been indicted on charges alleging that for 20 years they kept an illegal immigrant in their home, a woman who told investigators she was not paid or allowed to leave without an escort except for shopping.
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Two cousins are charged with burgling the home of an 85-year-old woman in north Belfast.
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The 71-year-old partner of a woman found dead at her home over a year ago is accused of her murder.
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HARBORCREEK, Pa. - An Erie County homeowner returned from a Florida visit to even warmer climes - his house, where police say someone had broken in and had turned up the man's thermostat all the way.