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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A funeral service was held Monday in Manchester for a baby girl whose body was found in a Manchester pond. The community came together at the Connor-Healy Funeral Home to say their goodbyes to a girl they never knew. People became emotional as they brought cards and flowers to place in front of the casket. Mayor Jay Ruais said it was personally important for him to be at the service. "As a new dad, you know, these are the kinds of situations that are just unconscionable," Ruais said. "Fr me, I think it's terribly important that we...

GALVESTON, Texas – A slain toddler tried to stop her mother and stepfather from beating her to death by reaching out to her mother and saying, "I love you," a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. The pleas from 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers didn't stop her mother, Kimberly Trenor, from continuing to brutalize her, assistant district attorney Kayla Allen said in her opening statement at Trenor's murder trial.

GALVESTON, Texas — Even the most grizzled investigators were reduced to tears by the disturbing details of the death of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers. The tot's already decomposed remains had been stuffed into a plastic container that was dumped into Galveston Bay. A fisherman found the container and its contents on a tiny island about a mile from the shore of the huge bay in October 2007. On Monday, jury selection is set to begin for the capital murder trial of Riley Ann's mother, 20-year-old Kimberly Dawn Trenor. She and her husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, are accused of beating...

The identity of a small girl whose body was found stuffed into a plastic storage box on a remote Galveston Bay island remains unknown but investigators say they will do whatever it takes to solve the heart-wrenching mystery of her death. "It's despicable that someone would dispose of this little girl's body in the way that they did," said sheriff's Sgt. Mike Barry said during an emotional news conference today. "We will follow any lead to try to find the identity of Baby Grace." Barry used the name given to the dead girl by stymied investigators who have received few...