WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested the mother of a man charged earlier this month with killing a 1-year-old girl at a motel in Northern California.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police have arrested a second man suspected of stealing earlier this month a minivan with two children inside after their father jumped out to deliver food in San...

CORAOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man accused of fatally beating his girlfriend’s young son will now face a homicide charge.

Tyler Scott Mason, 25, of Burgettstown, initially was...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Another child has been charged as a juvenile in the shooting death of a 9-year-old girl in a north Philadelphia home last week, police said.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines father has been arrested and charged after police say he seriously injured his 4-month-old daughter last year.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A Mandan couple is charged with child endangerment after their 4-year-old son, dressed in pajamas, was found outdoors in freezing temperatures.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A woman who padlocked a 7-year-old girl in a dog cage in the basement of an Ohio home has been sentenced to three years in prison.

CHICAGO (AP) —

A woman faces misdemeanor child endangerment charges after seven children — one of them a 23-month old baby — were found in an inside an apartment that was supposed to be...

TUNAS, Mo. (AP) — A southwestern Missouri man is accused in the death of his infant son.

KYTV-TV reports that 24-year-old Brantly Scott of Tunas has been charged with child abuse resulting...

Seven relatives of a 12-year-old girl, including her parents and adult sisters, have pleaded guilty to child endangerment for failing to properly care for her before she died of kidney failure and...

CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio couple is going to prison for the 2017 death of a boy whose remains were disposed of in garbage bags.

A judge on Tuesday sentenced Romaine Tolbert, 38, to 15 years...

EAST DEER, Pa. (AP) — An infant remains hospitalized after she overdosed on heroin that she ingested while a woman who was supposed to be caring for her slept, authorities said.

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Police have charged the parents of a Dyersville toddler who shot his mother with an unsecured gun he found in the family home.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Court of Appeals has upheld the murder conviction of a man serving life in prison for the the 2017 death of his infant son, who was found dead in a maggot-infested...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has pleaded guilty in federal court to manufacturing child pornography.

According to court documents, a child endangerment investigation by the...

BOARDMAN, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman has been charged with child endangerment after her child grabbed her gun from her purse, causing it to fire in a Sam’s Club.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — The murder trial for a 24-year-old Sioux City man charged with killing his girlfriend’s 19-month-old daughter has been pushed back to next summer.

GATES, N.Y. (AP) — A Rochester-area school bus driver faces criminal charges after allegedly driving a bus with students aboard while drunk.

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in the slaying of a man and attempted slaying of a woman in a New Jersey restaurant two years...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A mother has been charged in the death of her 5-year-old son who was found unresponsive in the bathroom of a west Philadelphia apartment, police said

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) — A woman in western Pennsylvania is accused of taking nude photos of her young daughters and sending them to a man who, in some cases, paid for them, police...

JESUP, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa school bus driver is accused of driving students while intoxicated after a parent got a worried call and was able to stop the vehicle at a bus stop.

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — The father of a newborn who died in June now also faces charges in the baby's death, along with the infant's mother.

Gregory Burton Rodee, 29, of Indianola, has been...

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — A central Iowa woman is facing charges for the June death of a newborn child.

KCCI-TV reports that 30-year-old Amber Nicole Phillips of Indianola is now charged with...

SUMMIT, N.J. (AP) — A former chaplain at a Roman Catholic prep school in northern New Jersey faces criminal charges for engaging in “a pattern of behavior” that threatened the welfare of six...

The former superintendent of a Pennsylvania school district and two other officials were charged Wednesday with felony child endangerment over allegations they covered up lead and asbestos...

ANNVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man and his fiancee imprisoned the man's 12-year-old son in a darkened room for years, starving him and beating him while treating their other children well,...

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — A south-central Iowa woman who pleaded guilty last year to killing her boyfriend’s infant son has been released from prison on parole earlier than expected.

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Police in a southern New Jersey town say they have charged a heating and air conditioning contractor with child endangerment relating to creation and possession of...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man who showed two children a gun and then left it loaded and unattended has been arrested after one of the children accidentally shot and killed a man at a Wichita home,...

CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — A man faces charges of animal cruelty and other offenses after police say he fatally shot a dog at a Connecticut condominium complex as its owners tried to catch it and two...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man who sexually abused children at a daycare center his mother ran at her Pittsburgh home has been sentenced to several decades in prison.

CINCINNATI (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in his family's Cincinnati home while she slept has been charged with felony child endangerment.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The mother and stepfather of a 7-year-old Ohio boy who authorities say was severely beaten have been indicted on murder charges in connection with his death.

TRENTON, N..J (AP) — An extensive investigation that targeted people who sexually exploited children online has netted 21 arrests in New Jersey,

PRICHARD, Ala. (AP) — A woman was charged with child endangerment after video captured images of a child in the back seat of a car that was parked outside an Alabama strip club in the middle of...

READING, Pa. (AP) — A judge has granted a request for taxpayer money to help pay for the defense of a woman charged with murder in the deaths of two young children found hanging in an eastern...

NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — A man who was driving drunk with his two young children in his car rear-ended an SUV, which rolled over and caught fire, authorities said,

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors say a man faces decades in prison after pleading guilty to killing a man and trying to kill a woman in a New Jersey restaurant almost two years ago.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested a father in the drowning death of his 2-year-old son in a neighborhood swimming pool in Wichita.

Police Officer Charley Davidson said Friday that...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man and his girlfriend have pleaded not guilty to new charges stemming from the “extreme abuse” death of his 10-year-old son last year, authorities...