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A 22-year-old San Jose man was arraigned Thursday on charges he raped, beat and suffocated a 2-year-old boy earlier this month as the child's mother slept in another room.

McALLEN, Texas — Police arrested a man who allegedly beat and suffocated his 2-year-old stepdaughter during the World Cup soccer game Saturday afternoon before jamming a screw down her throat in an attempt to make the slaying appear accidental. McAllen police arrested Hector Castro, 28, after firefighters called officers to his apartment at 3101 N. Eighth St at 4:18 p.m. Saturday, said McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez. Firefighters and emergency medical personnel had been called to the house in reference to the girl’s apparent choking on a screw, Rodriguez said. But after a cursory examination of the girl, whose name...

A 17-year-old Terrytown man was arrested on charges of aggravated rape and first-degree murder of an 8-month-old child Saturday afternoon, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. Arnold T. Ross, of 136 Friedrichs Road in Terrytown, was booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility. No bond is available on the first-degree murder charge. Ross was arrested after officers responded to a call of an unresponsive infant at 1656 Gary Court, Apt. B, near Gretna. The infant, Da-Von Lonzo, was taken to Ochsner Westbank where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, according to a release issued by Col. John Fortunato, a...

BRADENTON — A Bradenton man is under arrest on a felony murder charge following the death of his girlfriend’s baby.Alfredo Raul Hudson, 21, was arrested on Thursday in connection to the killing after he allegedly told Manatee County Sheriff’s Office detectives he shook the 8-month-old baby girl because it would not stop crying.— snip —