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Joanna McVey, 25, and Lorraine Couper, pictured, 30, fought near Dunblane Primary School after an online dispute. McVey warned Couper that she should bring an AK47 rifle with her for the cat fight.

A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in a car while his family stopped for gas early Wednesday in Tacoma, police said. It was western Washington's third recent shooting by a child....

A mother of 10 who threw a birthday party for her 5-year-old daughter at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in suburban Houston, Texas, apparently forgot about the girl, went home without her and failed to realize her mistake until the next day, police said Friday.

An Alabama woman has given birth the same day she was arrested for the death of her 9-year-old stepdaughter, who authorities say died after being forced to run for three hours as punishment for eating a candy bar....

I’ve taken away my 16-year-old daughter’s laptop. I’ve confiscated her cellphone. However, I’ve never considered destroying these items to further punish her for not doing her chores, for being disrespectful or for being ungrateful. But that’s what one father did. Tommy Jordan shot his daughter’s laptop — nine times — after he found a profanity-laced tirade she had written on her Facebook page.

An Arizona couple was arrested on suspicion of child abuse after allegedly posting pictures on Facebook of their kids bound with duct tape.

A mother and her boyfriend have been accused of locking up a toddler by nailing the door to his bedroom shut, according to a report. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Cindy Marie Cantu, 24, and Kyle Erwin Skinner, 23, of Marietta, Ga., were facing charges for child cruelty and contributing to the delinquency of minors.

As his adult daughter took to national television, the career of the Texas judge now infamous for the violent beating he gave her as a teenager began to look less certain Thursday. The State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced that it had opened an investigation into the video, now viewed more than 2.3 million times on YouTube, that shows Aransas County Court-at-Law Judge William Adams beating his then 16-year-old daughter with a belt for using an illegal file-sharing program.

A couple used a jug to make their 10-month-old daughter take solid food which eventually killed her, a court hears.

A southern California man allegedly hit his crying 7-year-old son and then threw him off on a tour boat in busy Newport Harbor, Orange County authorities said Tuesday.