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NEW CASSEL, N.Y. – Police responding to a domestic emergency call on Sunday found three small children dead in a bed and then tracked down their mother and arrested her. The mother, Leatrice Brewer, was charged with multiple counts of murder, Nassau County police said. “It was a disturbing scene,” …

WESTMINSTER, Md. – Prosecutors filed an appeal challenging the dismissal of charges against five counselors at a school for juvenile offenders who were accused of waiting more than half an hour before calling 911 about an unresponsive student who died. The counselors at the now-closed Bowling Brook Preparatory School had …

ZURICH, Switzerland – It was one of the biggest art robberies in European history, police said Monday. Armed and masked, three men entered a private Zurich museum just before closing Sunday and made off with paintings by Cezanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet worth 180 million Swiss francs (US$163.2 million; …