Adult Siblings

NEW MILFORD -- Police arrested a Spring Street man Sunday night who threatened suicide after a dispute with siblings at his downtown home, but instead of hurting anyone he fired several pistol rounds into an embankment, said Lt.

Sibling relationships are vitally important in shaping who we are and how we behave.

BURLINGTON — A Burlington teen who killed his parents and seriously wounded two siblings was sentenced today to spend seven years in juvenile detention followed by probation.

A 13-year-old boy who prosecutors say was playing with toy trucks and planes right before he shot and killed his parents was sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention on Wednesday after pleading guilty to murder.

In the minutes before he killed his parents and gravely wounded two younger siblings, a 12-year-old Burlington boy built an elaborate city in a sandpit behind his home — a playscape more suited to an 8-year-old, not an adult capable of understanding mur