MIAMI -- Police have acknowledged using a stun gun to immobilize a 12-year-old girl just weeks after an officer jolted a first-grader with 50,000 volts.

ROCHESTER, N.H. -- A woman and her boyfriend are accused of plotting to sacrifice the woman's three children on a church altar.

KITTANNING, Pa. -- A man was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday in the starvation death of his 4-year-old daughter, whose body was found in a picnic cooler left for trash pickup outside his home.

GOLDEN, Colo. -- A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated animal cruelty for stealing five puppies and burning two of them to death.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Attorneys for a man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart have asked a judge for additional competency evaluations, potentially delaying a trial already held up for months over the issue.