A Pittsburgh-area woman told police she heard “crazy voices” telling her to push her sons underwater before she sat on the boys in the bathtub, drowning her 3-year-old son and leaving his 6-year-old brother in critical condition.

Laurel Michelle Schlemmer, 40, of McCandless was jailed without bond after she was arraigned early today on charges including criminal homicide, aggravated assault and child endangerment.

Allegheny County detectives say Schlemmer told them she tried to drown her two youngest sons after her 7-year-old son left for school Tuesday morning.

Schlemmer allegedly told police she “thought she could be a better mother” to the oldest boy “if the other two boys weren't around and they would be better off in heaven.”

Pittsburgh's federal prosecutor says he won't reopen a criminal civil rights investigation into three white city police officers who were successfully sued by a young black man for wrongful arrest.U.S. Attorney David Hickton says he respects the verdict returned Monday in a civil lawsuit filed by Jordan Miles, who was an 18-year-old performing arts high school student with no criminal record when he claimed police wrongfully beat and arrested him in January 2010.The FBI investigated Miles claims and declined to file criminal charges.