Texas nurse held in mom's slaying

SPRING, Texas -- Verna McClain told her fiance she had given birth to their child. But after she suffered a miscarriage, authorities said, she went looking for another baby to present to him.

Now she's accused of killing a young mother to take one by force. Investigators say McClain waited outside a pediatrician's office north of Houston and shot Kala Golden, 28, before taking her newborn son, Keegan, who was 3 days old. The baby was found unharmed hours later with McClain's sister -- who was told that her sister planned to adopt the boy. He is back with family members.

McClain is charged with capital murder and was being held yesterday without bond. Authorities say she admitted attacking the woman Tuesday and stealing her baby from his mother's pickup truck.

McClain, 30, a vocational nurse at a local staffing agency, was separated from her husband, with whom she had raised three children.

"I don't understand that, her taking a child," her estranged husband, Theo McClain of San Diego, told The Associated Press. "That doesn't make sense. We have three kids. And then to shoot somebody? I've never known her to hurt anybody." -- AP