Marisa Sarnoff

An Ohio man allegedly tried to blame a 6-year-old boy's serious injuries on a kids' playground fight over a popsicle — until the child himself started talking to investigators, police say.

A Wisconsin man pinned a woman to her car after she tried to fight him off with pepper spray, police say.

A teen tried to run after allegedly stabbing a man he did not know at a Whole Foods in California — but according to police, he did not get far.

A Pennsylvania woman is accused of killing her cousin by starting a house fire — but her intended target was allegedly someone else entirely.

A family in Tennessee is suing a school district for pursuing criminal assault charges against their 5-year-old son — a kindergartner with autism who engaged in "maladaptive behavior" after they say the school failed to provide crucial support for the child.

Two teens in Idaho are behind bars for their alleged roles in violence that erupted at multiple house parties in Boise — including a fatal stabbing.

A Missouri man allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend when she came to visit him in the hospital, before telling police that security cameras would tell the whole story.

A Wisconsin man will spend more than a decade behind bars for the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian he ran over with his pickup truck, leaving the woman — who had cerebral palsy — in the road, where she was struck again by a police car less than a minute later.

A Florida real estate developer will spend the next few years behind bars for plowing into an elderly man's home while drunk behind the wheel, smashing into the residence and killing the man while he slept.

Two men in Florida are in custody in connection with an alleged kidnapping plot in which the suspects allegedly posed as police officers — and law enforcement officials say more suspects may be out there.