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A Texas child is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the chest during his birthday party, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

A 3-year-old child suffered burns and stitches after fireworks made their way through the families top-floor apartment building. Tracie Strahan reports.

A veteran special education teacher in Queens allegedly made a 9-year-old girl with autism inappropriately touch him while other students were in the classroom, law enforcement sources say. Marc Santia reports.

A 7-year-old was hit and killed by a vehicle in Brooklyn while on the way to school Thursday. The tragic incident took place just 2 miles from where another child was killed by a bus on Tuesday. Tracie Strahan reports.

A woman accused of killing her toddler son and telling police he had been kidnapped before his remains were found buried in the yard of her New Jersey home is seeking to have prosecutors barred from using her statements to police in court. Twenty-five-year-old Nakira Griner of Bridgeton is charged in the death of 23-month-old Daniel Griner Jr. Authorities say…

Authorities say a New Jersey woman left a 4-year-old girl alone in a hotel room while she gambled at a Pennsylvania casino.

A Massachusetts man who traveled to New Jersey to have sex with someone he thought was an 8-year-old girl has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.

Top Republican leaders in Texas this week weighed in on two parents’ battle over their 7-year-old child’s gender identity after the case was shared widely on social media and conservative news sites. Former spouses Anne Georgulas and Jeffrey Younger, who live in the Dallas area, have been embroiled in a legal dispute over their divorce and the care of their...

A Long Island woman allegedly hatched a murder-for-hire plot targeting her former mother-in-law and a child in a scheme to get her ex-husband back, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.

A woman is accused of trying to have her ex-husband’s mother and daughter killed in an effort to get back together with the ex-husband back. NBC 4 New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

Authorities say a child struck by a van in a hit-and-run accident has died of his injuries.

A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of his live-in girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter two years ago.

A New Jersey man accused of having killed his live-in girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter has rejected a proposed plea deal that would have carried a 40-year sentence.

Beyonce’s highly anticipated film “Homecoming,” documenting her 2018 Coachella performance, began streaming on Netflix Wednesday. But the singer didn’t let the release go by without throwing in a major surprise: a new live album to go with it.

A 5-year-old boy who was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America near Minneapolis remains hospitalized with serious injuries, authorities said Saturday. Bloomington police Chief Jeffrey Potts said during a news conference that the boy fell nearly 40 feet after a man who apparently didn’t know the boy or his family threw him off the balcony Friday....

A 5-year-old boy plummeted three floors Friday after being pushed or thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America, according to witnesses, and a 24-year-old man with a history of causing disturbances at the mall was in custody. Bloomington Police Chief Jeffrey Potts said police don’t think there is any relationship between the man and the family of the...

Emanuel Fluter, 33, appeared in court Wednesday to face murder charges after allegedly slashing his 3-year-old niece’s throat over the weekend, killing her. Josephine Bulubenchi, the victim, was asleep at the time of the attack. A plea of not guilty was entered on Fluter’s behalf.

A 20-year-old man tossed his 4-year-old brother to his death from the boy’s Brooklyn home, police said.

An older brother has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 4-year-old boy, who was thrown from a rooftop in Brooklyn. Wale Aliyu reports.