Jim Fitzgerald

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- First, he killed his mother.

Nancy Lanza's body was found later at their home on Yogananda Street in Newtown - after the carnage at Sandy Hook Elementary School; after a quiet New England town was scarred forever by unthinkable tragedy; after a nation seemingly inured to violence found itself stunned by the slaughter of innocents.

BEDFORD, N.Y. -- The Kennedy family, so practiced at public mourning, is grieving again after the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. was found dead at her home in suburban New York.

Mary Richardson Kennedy, 52, an architect who struggled with drug and alcohol charges in recent years, hanged herself.

NEW YORK — Thirteen people died Saturday when a bus returning from a casino flipped onto its side on a major highway in the Bronx and was sliced in half by the support pole for a large sign, authorities said.

The driver, who survived, told police he lost control after being clipped by a tractor trailer. Police began a hunt for the truck, which did not stop after the crash, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.

The wreck left a scene of carnage and closed the southbound side of Interstate-95 for hours while emergency workers attended to critically injured survivors and removed bodies.

NEW CITY, N.Y. — Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to an indictment that alleges he had sex with a 16-year-old girl in a New York hotel room.

HARRISON, N.Y. -- Police agree with regulators that driver error caused the crash of a Toyota Prius in the New York suburbs.

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. -- A man shot and killed his 9-year-old daughter and her baby sitter at the girl's suburban home in New York before walking out the front door and surrendering to officers, the police chief said Friday.