Last week, a Houston jury found Andrea Yates guilty of capital murder for drowning her children. Two days later, that same jury sentenced Yates to life in prison. This is a textbook example of how ...

N E W   Y O R K, March 27 -- A traveling evangelist, whose fire-and-brimstone teachings were embraced by Andrea and Russell Yates, says he shouldn't be blamed for Andrea Yates' decision to drown ...

The reversal of the Andrea Yates murder convictions drew international media attention, but virtually none of it touched on the controversy over the hard-line judge who wrote the opinion: former ...

Andrea Yates was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she drowned her children in 2001. She was remanded in 2007 to a mental hospital At the beginning of one of the nation’s most high-profile murder ...

With Andrea Yates' new trial less than two weeks away, her lawyers now will turn to an appeals court with hopes of delaying, and possibly blocking, further prosecution. In a hearing in state District ...

HOUSTON — Testimony in the Andrea Yates murder case ended Thursday after a nearly monthlong retrial that included some new witnesses but no appearance by Rusty Yates, her ex-husband and father of the ...

At the beginning of one of the nation’s most high-profile murder trials in 2002, prosecutor Joseph Owmby told jurors that Andrea Yates had spent two years planning to kill her five young children. On ...