Police say a 7-year-old girl who was stabbed several times by her suicidal mother has survived emergency surgery and investigators plan to talk to her about the tragedy.
Prosecutors say a Newark mother repeatedly stabbed her young son outside the high-rise apartment building where they lived, then apparently used the same knife to kill herself.
Officers responded to a call of a foul odor in the Elmhurst section. Inside the home, police found the 62-year-old woman's body with stab wounds to her back.
Yoselyn Ortega, the nanny accused of slaying the two young children of a Manhattan couple, has been indicted by a grand jury on first- and second-degree murder charges.
New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly says the suspect in the street killing of a popular youth soccer coach left a note with his brother before he fled to Mexico.