A 5-year-old girl was crushed when she tried to turn up the volume on a television and the dresser holding the set tipped over, police and family members said.
The search for a 9-year-old girl who was reported missing after she was left home alone stretched across the rugged Ozarks countryside Wednesday, and the sheriff said he suspects foul play.
A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death during an attack by a 17-year-old girl and the older teenager's family members, police said.
A man convicted of murder for leaving a 5-year-old girl to be eaten alive by alligators in the Everglades was sentenced to death Monday.
One of Portugal's top detectives is taking charge of the investigation into the disappearance of a British girl who vanished while vacationing with her parents, officials said Tuesday.
A father tied his 10-year-old daughter's hands and feet and watched her swim in a chilly southern China river for three hours in a task he said Thursday would help the girl achieve her dream of swimming across the English Channel.
A man accused of kidnapping a teenager found hidden in his home in June was charged Wednesday with kidnapping another girl almost a decade ago.
The family of a young girl who disappeared during a vacation in Portugal called Tuesday for an end to the rampant speculation surrounding the case and said the focus should return to the search for her.
A 6-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted was found hanged inside her family's garage, and authorities on Thursday described her mother's boyfriend as the primary suspect.
A 6-year-old girl was found hanged inside her family's garage and had been sexually assaulted before she died, police said Wednesday.
The father of a 4-year-old British girl who disappeared in Portugal said he and his wife were desperate to go home but did not want to be perceived as running from justice since being named suspects in the case.
In a shocking twist, the mother of a 4-year-old British girl missing since May was named a suspect and called in for questioning Friday by police along with the child's father, after traces of blood were found in their rental car.
A 6-year-old girl who sat on an open drain in a wading pool lost part of her intestinal tract to the drain's powerful suction, her family said.
At an age when many girls are still playing with their Barbie dolls, Bindi Irwin has moved on to something a bit more challenging.
Police investigating the disappearance of a 4-year-old British girl searched an area of remote scrubland in southern Portugal on Friday, but said they found nothing.
Pope Benedict XVI clasped the hands of the parents of Madeleine McCann and blessed a photo of the missing 4-year-old, telling them Wednesday he would pray for the safe return of the little girl who disappeared a month ago in Portugal.
The parents of a 4-year-old British girl who vanished during a vacation in Portugal three weeks ago said Friday the guilt they feel over leaving her alone in a hotel room will haunt them forever.
The mother of a 4-year-girl who disappeared in Portugal marked the 14th day of the search for her daughter by attending a church service Thursday, and police released a local Russian computer expert questioned in connection with the case.
An 11-year-old girl stopped a van that went out of control when her diabetic mother became ill, police said.
Two young women charged with stealing nearly $11,000 in a bank heist went on a shopping spree, ate a meal and even gave money to the homeless afterward, a police detective testified Thursday, as the judge lowered the bond for one suspect.
A convicted sex offender committed a calculated, horrific crime when he murdered 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive, and he deserves a death sentence despite evidence of his mental problems, a state prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.
Overwhelming physical evidence and a sex offender's own admissions are enough to convict him of murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford by burying her alive in trash bags, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday.
The mother of an 18-year-old arrested in a bank theft scheme said Monday that her daughter isn't a bandit, she just fell in with the wrong crowd and made a bad choice.
Georgia authorities Wednesday were searching for two young women, possibly teenagers, who robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but sunglasses to disguise their faces.
Woody has something the nation's other prognosticating groundhogs don't. Female intuition. Gen. Beauregard Lee in Georgia, Sir Walter Wally in North Carolina and, of course, Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania might be more established, but Woody from Howell has a pretty good track record.