From the Associated Press:

Providence police and child welfare officials are investigating what they are calling the rape of an eleven-month-old girl.

Authorities say the incident was reported by a doctor early Tuesday after the mother brought the baby to Hasbro Children's Hospital for treatment. The doctor told police the baby was experiencing vaginal bleeding.

Stephanie Terry, assistant director for child protective services at the Department of Children, Youth and Families, says the baby was removed from the 22-year-old mother's custody and is "not in any immediate danger."

Police Captain Hugh Clements Junior calls the case "extremely disturbing." Police say the incident happened Monday when the baby was under the care of four different people at different times.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

A Decatur man accused of trying to stuff his estranged wife into a heated oven on Thanksgiving Day was in jail Thursday in Rockdale County.

Martin Luther Jackson, 31, was charged Nov. 23 with aggravated assault, aggravated battery, cruelty to children and possession of marijuana, Rockdale police said. The incident at the woman's Rockdale home allegedly occurred within view of five children.

Jackson's 29-year-old estranged wife escaped and complained to Rockdale police, said Jodi Shupe, a spokeswoman for the Rockdale Sheriff's Office.

The woman, who Shupe said had visible head injuries, was not identified by police.

Jackson was arrested by Rockdale police at his mother's home in Decatur, where he was found hiding under a bed, Shupe said.

He had lived with his mother after separating from his wife in July, Shupe said. The couple has five children, between the ages of 1 and 13, she said. All were at home during the incident.

The woman told police she and her husband began arguing in another room, and that the argument escalated in the kitchen.

"He allegedly attempted to stuff her in the oven," Shupe said.

The oven door had been left open as a way of heating the home, Shupe said.

Jackson's bond was set at $35,000.

From the Des Moines Register:

Authorities identified a body discovered in a well Monday as that of a missing Red Oak woman, meanwhile her boyfriend is charged in her murder.

Using dental records from April Corter, 24, of Red Oak, investigators were able to identify the body as the missing woman Wednesday. Shortly thereafter, they arrested her boyfriend, Daniel Miller, 25, of Elliot, in Minnesota where he was working with a construction company, Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker said.

Miller, who Corter was last seen with Sept. 26 before she was reported missing Oct.11, was charged with first-degree murder. He waived extradition and will be brought back to Iowa tonight. Miller is expected to make a court appearance Friday morning.

Danker said Miller is believed to have killed his on-again off-again girlfriend after he believed she was going to tell authorities about illegal activity he was involved in.

He allegedly strangled her by bounding her neck and hands with zip-ties before placing her in the well. It is still uncertain when she was murdered, Danker said.

Authorities discovered the body Nov. 27 after someone went to the home of Montgomery County Sheriff Tony Updegrove Nov. 26 and told him where the body
might be located. Authorities went to the site of the well, on a rural farmstead in Pottawattamie County, and from the 30-foot wellremoved a fleece pullover that Corter was last seen wearing.

They returned the next day, and fashioning a grappling system, pulled up the body, which was unidentifiable until Wednesday.

From the Charlotte Observer:

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are asking for help locating a man who they said accosted a 15-year-old girl last week, then raped her in a wooded area of east Charlotte.

The reported attack occurred about 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving in the 6500 block of English Hills Drive near Albemarle Road and East W.T. Harris Boulevard, police said. It was near the entrances of the English Hills and Cedars apartments, police said.

The girl did not know her attacker, the police report said. Police have a detailed description of the man but do not know his name.

The teen was treated at Presbyterian Hospital, the police report said. The attack was reported Friday afternoon.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel recounts assault of the parents.

A former Racine Horlick baseball star whose girlfriend took him to meet her parents beat the woman's father into semiconsciousness and injured her and her stepmother after he became boisterously drunk, a criminal complaint filed in Outagamie County Circuit Court alleges.

From the San Antonio Express News:

At about 3:45 local SWAT team members were seen exiting the scene of a 10-hour standoff with a suspect in handcuffs. The man, dressed all in black, was apprehended after holding police at bay with a high-powered rifle since before 7 a.m. this morning.

San Antonio Police department spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez said the 25-year-old man, not yet being identified, is being charged with terroristic threats and deadly conduct.

From the Associated Press:

A suburban Detroit woman who admitted injecting heroin into her 12-year-old nephew and giving him and her 15-year-old niece heroin and cocaine was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Jacqueline Ellen Vuich, 26, pleaded guilty Nov. 2 to delivery of narcotics to a minor, first- and second-degree child abuse, maintaining a drug house and keeping a person younger than 16 in a home where prostitution occurred. She was sentenced Wednesday by Macomb County Circuit Judge Matt Switalski.

Vuich was visiting her mother, Jan Ruby Catton, on Jan. 24 in Warren when she injected her nephew with heroin as he ate dinner. He was treated for a heroin overdose at a Warren hospital.

Catton, 47, was charged with maintaining a drug house and a house of prostitution, and with second-degree child abuse. She pleaded no contest and was sentenced Wednesday by Switalski to two years' probation.

"She is probably not a good caregiver," Switalski said of Catton, who has lost custody of the eight grandchildren under her care.

"I am sorry," Catton said. "I tried to help."

Defense attorney Timothy Barkovic said Vuich's upbringing was a factor in her involvement in the incident. "All of this stemmed from the environment she grew up in," he told The Detroit News.

Akron Beacon-Journal: Akron man found shot in the chest

Atlanta journal-Constitution: Mom charged in child's death

Boston Globe: Leaders vow gang cease-fire will stand, Internet date led to rape, N.H. police say

Buffalo News: Phillips admits killing state trooper

Charlotte Observer: Cab driver kills robber, police say

Chicago Tribune: Search in Burger King slaying probe

Cincinnati Enquirer: Dad's charges upped to attempted murder, Georgetown homicide is first in years

Columbia State: Va. man accused of killing S.C. police officer pleads guilty

Dallas Morning News: Allen murder plot suspect likely to face charges in Texas

Des Moines Register: Former Iowan charged in wife's Arizona murder

Detroit Free Press: Cops target domestic abuse cases

Kansas City Star: Man faces charges in double slaying

Memphis Commercial-Appeal: Two charged in Lakeland slaying

Mobile Register: Birmingham man admits he killed 2-year-old, Police investigating shooting on Jordan Lane

Orlando Sentinel: Man's hand nearly severed in fight, Hail of bullets kills mom in home

Philadelphia Daily News: Man slain sitting in car in N. Phila.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Greensburg woman sexually assaulted during burglary, Stepson charged after shooting victim dies, 2nd man sought in fatal West Mifflin shooting, Man shoots estranged wife, kills self

Tampa Tribune: 2 Murder-Suicides Claim 4 In Pasco

From the Associated Press:

An Ohio mom is suspected of murdering her baby by placing the infant in the microwave, police said yesterday.

China Arnold, 26, a Dayton mother of four, brought her dead 1-month-old daughter to a hospital a year ago. The child, who had suffered mysterious burns, died of hyperthermia - high body temperature - due to thermal injury, a coroner ruled.

"We have reason to believe, and scientific evidence to support, that a microwave oven might be involved in the death of this child," Ken Betz, director of the Montgomery County coroner's office, said yesterday.

Arnold is jailed in lieu of $1 million bail in connection with the Aug. 30, 2005, death of tiny Paris Talley, her youngest child.

Arnold, who has three sons, ages 9, 7 and 4, was arrested Monday on a warrant for a charge of aggravated murder. The case is expected to go before a grand jury next month before she can be formally charged, police said.

"I haven't seen a case like this before. It's very rare. There's no way to put words to how this can happen. It's definitely a tragedy," Dayton Police Sgt. Gary White told the Daily News.

"The baby's body had obvious burns. It's difficult to describe," said White. Arnold provided "little or no information" about how the burns occurred when she brought the dead baby to Dayton Children's Hospital, White said.

Determined investigators, including the coroner's crew who examined the infant's organs, eventually cracked the case. The microwave was seized and examined by a CSI team, White said.

The baby's father, Terrell Talley, was "ruled out" and is not a suspect in the case, White said.

But Arnold's lawyer says she's innocent.

"China Arnold is a grieving mother, mourning the loss of her child. She's in shock," attorney Jon Paul Rion said yesterday.

"When she was told that a microwave may have been used, she was in complete disbelief that anyone could do such a thing to a child or any living thing," Rion said.

The case is believed to be only the second in the nation where a household microwave was used to kill a child, investigators said. In 2000, a 20-year-old Virginia mother was convicted of killing her 5-week-old son in this manner.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Roswell police are asking the public for help in locating a pregnant 13-year-old who may be with her boyfriend.

Margie Jane Martin, who goes by the alias Gabina Martin, may be with Francisco Javier Rico-Santana, also known as Chico, police said. Their last known location was in Buford.

Margie is 5-foot-5, 120 pounds, with brown hair and eyes. She may be as much as 6 months pregnant. She has not been to school recently and has sought medical attention.

Rico-Santana is 18 years old, 5-foot-6, 120 to 130 pounds, with brown hair and eyes.

Both teens were seen in the Roswell area in August.

Though the two were last thought to be in Gwinnett County, Cpl. Darren Moloney, Gwinnett police spokesman, said he didn't have enough information on Tuesday to comment on the investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Roswell Police Department at 770-640-4100.

San Antonio Express-News details abandonment, death.

Hidalgo County deputies spent most of Tuesday trying to find out who left a live, naked baby girl beside a rural road — and whether she was the daughter of a young woman found dead hours later, dumped in a sugarcane field.

By evening, they had identified Aida Mae Rodriguez, 16, and her baby, 7-month-old Briggette Mae Rodriguez.

Sheriff Lupe Treviño said late Tuesday that officers were looking for a "person of interest" — Samuel Villarreal, 38, who lived with Rodriguez.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal:

A student at Shelby County High School was stabbed Wednesday morning during a fight with another student.

The 16-year-old sophomore, whose name was not released by the sheriff’s office or the school, was taken to University Hospital in Louisville with non-life threatening injuries, according to a statement from the school district. He was listed in stable condition.

A 14-year-old freshman was taken into custody by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, which has a resource officer stationed in the school.

The freshman, whose name also was not released because he’s a juvenile, is charged with one count each of first-degree assault and unlawful possession of a weapon on school property, said Sheriff Mike Armstrong. He was in police custody Wednesday.

About 8:20 a.m., before school started, a fight broke out between the two boys who were in the lobby area near the gym, said Armstrong. The 14-year-old pulled out a folding hunting knife and allegedly stabbed the sophomore.

Staff in the area took control of the situation and the 14-year-old surrendered the weapon without hesitation, the school district said.

School officials plan to send home a letter with all students explaining what happened.

Principal Gary Kidwell said no other students were at risk during the incident.

Boston Globe discusses endangered truce.

A 20-year-old gang leader from Roxbury was shot to death last night near his home on Holworthy Street, the first breach of a landmark four-month truce between two of the city's most violent gangs that have been linked to a rash of shootings in recent years, police and local ministers said.

From the Associated Press:

An HIV-infected man has been charged with donating blood while knowing he carried the virus.

Michael D. Ivy, 45, was jailed Tuesday on a charge of selling contaminated body fluids in Hammond, 20 miles southeast of Chicago.

After Ivy tested positive for HIV in December 2002, he was told that he could not donate blood, authorities said.

On Sept. 13, Ivy went to a blood plasma center, lied about his medical history and donated blood, investigators said.

He returned Sept. 22, but by then the first batch had tested positive for the virus and he was barred from making another donation, authorities said.

Ivy was being held without bond. He could face two to eight years in prison if he is convicted.

Lexington Herald-Leader depicts drug deterrent.

At various points in the new Generation Rx interactive video game, Rex Kilburn had to make a choice:

The senior at Perry County Central High School plays one of three main characters in the game, which premiered yesterday at the school in Hazard.

He can refuse to take illegal prescription drugs and eventually watch himself get married, get a good job and "have pretty much everything he's always wanted," Kilburn, 17, said.

Disaster, however, is just a computer click away.