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For more than a week, a wildlife organization in California has been trying to solve a confounding — albeit adorable — mystery of a baby bear that was left in a kennel on their driveway, and on Friday, they finally got their answer.

NBC PHILADELPHIAMore than eight months after a teen admitted to murdering a 12-year-old girl, a judge decided to allow his mother to file a civil complaint against the boy and his father, seeking to hold them liable for potential damages in a lawsuit brought by the homicide victim's father.

The mother said her son and ex-husband should be solely responsible for damages sought by the father of the 12-year-old girl who was murdered.

Sharon Holmes found a lump in her left breast quite by accident. At work one day as a high school custodian, her hand brushed up against her chest and she felt a knot sticking out. She was perplexed.

DJ Rashad, a house music icon in Chicago whose new EP is set to be released next week, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose Saturday afternoon.

BY NBC CONNECTICUTThe Milford community continues to come to grips with the tragedy at Jonathan Law High School.Sixteen-year-old Maren Sanchez, a junior, was stabbed to death Friday morning in the school by a classmate.

Sixteen-year-old Maren Sanchez, a junior, was stabbed to death Friday morning in the school by a classmate.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — He was young, displaced and frustrated, and he wanted nothing more than to reunite with his mother in their native Africa.

BY NBC CHICAGOAt least 40 people have been shot, five of them fatally, in a spate of violence across Chicago since Friday.The latest homicide took place around 12:25 a.m. Sunday in the 3500 block of West Fullerton Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood.

A round of severe thunderstorms — accompanied by potentially powerful tornadoes and hail — is set to begin late Sunday in the midsection of the country and rumble east as the work week begins.Flooding caused by excessive rainfall could also be a potential threat, meteorologists warned.