HOUSTON — A Texas man this week could become the first person executed in the U.S. for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome. Robert Roberson, …
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JAIMIE DING | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing new evidence in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez to determine …
More than 100 people are suing San Diego County, alleging they were sexually abused by staffers during short stays at the region’s emergency children’s shelter over the last 30 years, …
SAN JOSE — Grace was 15 and had been removed from her father’s care when she first met 17-year-old Destiny at one of Santa Clara County’s unlicensed group homes for …
It became more common for authorities to charge women with crimes related to their pregnancies after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022, a new study found — even …
CHICAGO — Michael Moss said he felt shame and guilt for years after he was sexually abused as a teenager by guards at a troubled Chicago juvenile detention center. Moss, …
SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas had had enough. She listened quietly during Tuesday’s board meeting as leaders of the county’s child welfare agency breezed through a …
By Melissa Alonso and Steve Almasy | CNN Cold case investigators have arrested a 55-year-old woman in North Carolina in connection with the death of a newborn girl found in …
SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz County District Attorney’s Office has added murder to a series of charges filed against a woman whose child died of a potential drug poisoning …
Aichi Prefectural Police arrested a 33-year-old woman and her common-law husband Thursday on suspicion of assaulting and causing the death of her 7-year-old daughter. Minami Shimazaki and her partner Gai …