A father who was driving drunk when he caused a crash last year that killed his infant daughter has been sentenced to five years in state prison. Leroy Iglesia, 34, of Blackwood, must also serve three years of supervised release after he’s freed from prison. He had pleaded guilty in December to vehicular homicide and driving while intoxicated. The charges…

A New Jersey man has been charged with murder in the death of his 6-week-old daughter. Austin Meli, 23, of Wall, was also charged Thursday with child endangerment, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. But they declined to release further details about how the death occurred or discuss the cause of death. Police had responded to the family’s...

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 Guatemalan mother seeking asylum told a House panel Wednesday that she came to the United States seeking safety, but instead watched her infant daughter die slowly and painfully after the baby received shoddy medical care while they were in immigration custody. As Yazmin Juárez spoke, an image of her brown-eyed baby girl, Mariee, was put up on television screens...

The family of the New Jersey victims openly wept in court on Thursday, pleading with the judge to hand down the maximum sentence. NBC 4 New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A New Jersey man convicted of driving under the influence of drugs and killing a beloved teacher and his 5-year-old daughter in February 2016was sentenced Thursday to 37 years behind bars.

Zoey Pereira, of Queens, was found critically injured, in a blazing Audi over the weekend and later died at a hospital. Ray Villeda reports.

One of two injured mothers in Monday’s deadly crash in Brooklyn that claimed the lives of the women’s two young children is a Tony-winning actress who also appeared in the TV show “The Americans,” a police source familiar with the investigation told NBC 4 New York. Lori Bordonaro reports.

Bode Miller and his wife Morgan Beck Miller welcomed a baby boy on Friday. According to People, the little bundle of joy was born Oct. 5 at 1:34 p.m. The happy news came about four months after the Olympic skier and pro volleyball player lost their 19-month-old daughter, Emeline, in a tragic drowning accident.

Britain’s security minister said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin bears ultimate responsibility for the nerve agent attack targeting a former spy in England, also warning that the U.K. would counter Russian “malign activity” with both overt and covert measures. Ben Wallace said Putin and his government “controls, funds and directs” the military intelligence unit known as the GRU, which...

A 75-year-old man who had been inexplicably squatting in the middle of a Brooklyn street suddenly fell backwards and into the westbound flow of traffic, where he was struck and killed by a Mercedes, authorities say.

A New York woman convicted of killing her infant daughter in the 1980s and suspected of killing seven of her eight other children has been granted parole.

Bode Miller’s wife has spoken out for the first time since her daughter’s death to help raise awareness about child drownings and ensure “no other parent feels this pain.” Read More

British detectives investigating the poisoning of two people by the nerve agent Novichok in southern England say scientists have found the source of the deadly substance. One of the victims, 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess, died in a hospital Sunday after exposure to the nerve agent. Her partner, 45-year-old Charlie Rowley, was in critical condition, but has since regained consciousness. The Metropolitan...

A New Hampshire dad has had it with the lack of changing stations in men’s bathrooms and having to change his daughter’s diapers on floors.

Tony Award-winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles’ return to the stage in the London production of “The King and I” remains unconfirmed despite previous reports.

Bobby Brown often broke into tears as he watched scenes being filmed involving his daughter’s death for his upcoming biopic. “You never really get over it,” he said about the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown, who was found unresponsive in a bathtub in 2015. She died at the age of 22 after six months in a coma. Sporting a gold...

Singer-songwriter Billy Joel and his wife, Alexis Roderick, announced the birth of their second daughter, Remy Anne, on Monday. Remy Anne was born at 7:50 p.m. on Sunday at New York University Hospital. A photo of the smiling musician and his third daughter was posted along with the announcement. “Alexis and Remy are doing well and everything is thrilled,” the...

A New Jersey mom who investigators say was high on drugs in her car while her 2-year-old daughter died in her car seat now faces additional charges after police allegedly found heroin, crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia and a gun inside her vehicle.

Puppeteer Steve Whitmire on the “Today” show Thursday pushed back on allegations that he was difficult to work with and that he transformed Kermit the Frog into a negative personality during his more than 15-year tenure as the voice of the beloved character. Jim Henson’s daughter Cheryl Henson alleged this week that Whitemire turned the iconic children’s character into “a...