A school secretary who was acquitted of murder but convicted of a weapon charge after shooting her husband, a former police sergeant, 11 times with his own guns was sentenced to prison Thursday in New ...

Barbara Sheehan says it was self-defense, the culmination of a lifetime of abuse, and her children have given emotional testimony of their father's sustained violence. Such a legal approach is known ...

The Queens woman accused of killing her husband, a retired New York police officer, fell apart on the witness stand Wednesday -- weeping, clutching her chest, gagging and gasping for air -- when asked ...

The Queens mother acquitted of murdering her husband says she withheld sex from him for over a decade as he patronized transvestite prostitutes. “I don’t know if there were actually affairs,” Barbara ...

The 52-year-old surrendered to begin serving a five-year-sentence for weapons possession. Sheehan, who claimed to have suffered years of abuse, says she feared for her life when she fatally shot her ...

It’s been a year and a half since Barbara Sheehan was acquitted for killing her husband, a retired NYPD sergeant. She admits to firing 11 shots at him as she was fleeing the home they shared with ...

CONCORD — Barbara G. (Felt) Sheehan, 87, a resident of Concord for more than six decades and was an active Women’s Club member in town, died Thursday, Aug. 31, at her daughter’s home in Lowell. She ...