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A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her.

A polygamist sect member arrested following last year’s raid of a west Texas ranch was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, authorities said.

Authorities say a 2-week-old South Carolina infant missing overnight has been returned unharmed to his mother.

Authorities in South Carolina say a mother and her son have been shot and injured in a fight between family members over a video game.

Raw: Beating On Tape -  Police say the suspect’s mother became unhappy with the victim in the bar, and her son attacked the man outside.

Oklahoma City police say a fire that swept through a home where four people were found dead was intentional.

A state government official says a former student has surrendered to police after taking a school administrator hostage at an upstate New York high school.

A close friend of Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen shot one of Owen’s sons in an apparent workplace dispute Monday afternoon and then shot himself in the head, the lieutenant governor said.

Berkeley County deputies are on the lookout for a shooting suspect this morning…after an armed robbery turned into a shooting. 

A former South Carolina high school teacher and coach has been arrested after police say he had sexual contact with a 16-year-old female student.

Authorities say they are looking for a North Carolina man who shot his girlfriend at his parents’ home after police were called to break up an argument.

Authorities say a 37-year-old Virginia man is dead and two other people injured in a shooting outside a North Carolina nightclub.

A man already on South Carolina’s death row for killing his girlfriend is going on trial again in another death penalty case. Opening statements are expected Monday in Stephen Stanko’s second trial. A judge ruled he was competent to stand trial last week.

The Supreme Court is considering whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison with no chance of parole is cruel and unusual punishment, particularly if the crime is less serious than homicide.

A military official says one more person has died after being injured during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas. The toll now stands at 13 dead and 30 wounded.

North Carolina police say a real estate developer known as an active member of his church shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their Fayetteville home.

Investigators will continue their grisly dig Wednesday after finding that the Cleveland, Ohio home of a convicted rapist had been turned into a tomb holding at least 10 bodies.

Prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a 14-year-old central California boy accused in the death of a 4-year-old neighbor boy, whose body was found in a clothes dryer at the teen’s home

Authorities say the body of a missing 4-year-old California boy was found in the clothes dryer of a neighbor’s home and a 14-year-old boy from the house in Mendota has been arrested on suspicion of the killing.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in Little Rock in the trial of Curtis Lavelle Vance. He has pleaded not guilty to capital murder, rape and burglary.