A woman charged with killing four of her young children and their father smiled and posed for cameras during her first court appearance before telling a judge she did not want a lawyer.

Four young children and their father have been found apparently stabbed to death in a home outside Atlanta, and police said the mother - now charged with their deaths - was the one who called 911 to report the killings.

A judge today sentenced the man who killed four people in a brazen courthouse escape to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole and hundreds more years on more than fifty charges.

RUNAWAY bride Jennifer Wilbanks made a deal with a company that is pitching a movie about her life to networks - annoying officials who spent thousands of dollars searching for her.