updated 3:27 PM EDT, Fri May 11, 2012 (CNN) -- A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the death of his 9-year-old half-sister, whose body was found attached to a rope hanging from a tree, Alabama authorities said Friday. St.

(CNN) -- The FBI said Monday night that a Tennessee mother and her 14-year-old daughter are dead, though the man they believe abducted them -- along with two other daughters -- remains at large. Authorities previously reported that they had found two bodies Friday at a Guntown, Mississippi, residence tied to the kidnapping suspect, Adam Mayes.

updated 1:13 AM EDT, Tue April 17, 2012 (CNN) -- Two Oklahoma daycare workers are facing felony child abuse charges after allegedly feeding habanero hot sauce to a 13-month-old boy and laughing as the infant writhed in agony. The incident occurred in March at a daycare in Muscogee Creek Nation, a federally recognized tribe of Muscogee people based in Oklahoma.

New York (CNN) -- Police and federal agents were expected Friday to continue searching in a Lower Manhattan basement for clues in the more than 30-year disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz, the boy who became the face of missing children in America. Etan Patz disappeared May 25, 1979, a block from his home in the city's SoHo neighborhood.

CREATED Apr. 12, 2012 Omaha, NE- A man was severely burned after an explosion at a house in Council Bluffs. Neighbors tell Action 3 News they heard a loud explosion at the home just before 8 p.m. Thursday. Moments later they say a man and a woman came running out of the home.

updated 4:05 AM EDT, Fri April 13, 2012 (CNN) -- Ohio Police shot and killed a gunman at a restaurant near Cleveland Thursday evening, where two people were killed in an apparent domestic dispute, authorities said.

(CNN) -- A man filmed a group of girls attacking a 12-year-old girl in his neighbor's garden, and told Providence, Rhode Island, police he thought it was a prank. Two of the girls have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy, and two others have been charged with simple assault and conspiracy, said Providence Police Sgt.

(CNN) -- A drug counselor at California high school pleaded not guilty Wednesday to secretly videotaping students engaged in sexual activity with each other, and to possessing child pornography. Gilbert Olivares, 34, turned himself in late Monday, according to his attorney and the Salinas Police Department. His bail was set at $1 million.

updated 8:15 PM EST, Sun February 19, 2012 (CNN) -- A teenage mother and her young daughter, snatched off a Cleveland street, were found shot to death in a garage early Sunday, Cleveland, Ohio, police said.