Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Schenectady police have charged two people after finding a pit bull that officers said appeared to have been intentionally killed.

Three women are accused of torturing a 6-year-old girl inside their North Carolina home for more than a year until she died in December, when the girl weighed only 27 pounds, according to police.

MINISTER SAYS AT LEAST TEN MORE PEOPLE WERE HURT. THE DEATH TOLL IS EXPECTED TO RISE. A JOPLIN MAN WILL SPEND HIS LIFE BEHIND BARS AFTER BEING SENTENCED FOR HIS INVOLVEMENT IN A KIDNAPPING CONSPIRACY ...

The students are accused of kidnapping, beating and torturing a fellow male classmate after they left school on Feb. 19.

PHOENIX — Maricopa County prosecutors will not move forward with their investigation of a woman accused of torturing and killing dogs in Mesa. Brook Scalero, 42, was arrested in November after her ...

Three Florida day care employees are accused of torturing young children in their care through physical abuse, including by hitting them with their hands and a wooden spoon as a “form of punishment,” ...

TAVARES, Fla. — A Tavares man, Andre Walker, was denied bail Tuesday in connection to charges filed against him in the abuse case of a 10-year-old boy. Walker, 36, and his girlfriend, Kimberley Mills, ...

Editor's note: Contents of this story may be disturbing to some readers. A 36-year-old Arizona man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for illegally owning guns and for filming himself ...