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A case that involved years of forensic investigation, weeks of often highly technical testimony and untold hours of media analysis turned out to be pretty straightforward for the jurors weighing whether Casey Anthony killed her toddler daughter.

After less than 11 hours of deliberation, a jury Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of first-degree murder and the other most serious charges against her in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter.

Prosecutors in their rebuttal closing argument earlier Monday said the defense's assertion that Caylee's death was an 'accident that snowballed out of control' made no sense. Jurors did not reach a verdict Monday in the Casey Anthony murder trial after deliberating for almost six hours on the prosecution's claim that the woman killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee because the toddler interrupted her carefree partying and love life.

The judge in the Florida murder trial of Casey Anthony unexpectedly called an indefinite recess Friday morning so the defense could take depositions of witnesses the prosecution plans to call during its rebuttal case....

The parents of a Florida mother accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter returned to the witness stand Thursday as the defense began calling its final witnesses.

The trial of a central Florida mother charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter has resumed, with the judge saying she's mentally competent to continue.

The Saturday session of Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial was scuttled by an unspecified "legal issue" announced by Judge Belvin Perry.

The Florida trial of Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing her daughter, will resume Wednesday, one day after the defense attacked forensics evidence previously offered by the prosecution.

A Sacramento mother was arrested Tuesday for allegedly killing her 6-week-old baby by putting her in a microwave oven, police said.