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Schools and bus stops in a Northern Californian town were under guard on Monday as law enforcement authorities hunted an intruder suspected of stabbing an 8-year-old girl to death in her home, officials said.The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office named the girl who died as 8-year-old Leila Fowler in a statement issued on Sunday evening. Officials previously said she was 9.The office earlier warned ...
Schools and bus stops in a Northern Californian town were under guard on Monday as law enforcement authorities hunted an intruder suspected of stabbing an 8-year-old girl to death in her home, officials said.The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office named the girl who died as 8-year-old Leila Fowler in a statement issued on Sunday evening. Officials previously said she was 9.The office earlier warned ...
Almost half a century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination in schools and other public places, black and white students in Georgia's rural Wilcox County danced together for the first time at prom over the weekend."I feel like we are living Martin Luther King's dream," NBC station WMGT 41 quoted student Alexis Miller as saying. Miller, who is white, attended Saturday's ...
Investigators are trying to figure out why eight children in Dallas were dropped off at a fire station.It started Sunday morning at a house in the city's Oak Cliff neighborhood. Police said two women found the children, aged 3 to 12, at a home. Their mother was gone.Then at 7:00 a.m. local time, the women dropped the children off at the fire station at 745 West Illinois in Dallas.Dallas Fire Resc...
A man brandishing a hand saw stole a cash register from a store early Sunday, police said.According to police, an employee at Sam's Food Mart in West Haven, Connecticut, called 911 to report that a white male wearing a mask was acting suspiciously.While en route to the scene, police learned that the male brandished a hand saw, threatened the store clerk and stole the cash register.Officers pursed...
BREEZY POINT, N.Y. -- The construction noises are almost constant at daytime in this coastal enclave six months after Hurricane Sandy, but for many residents whose homes were badly damaged, recovery is moving at a slow pace – or not at all.Many of those displaced by the so-called superstorm say they are stuck in limbo, trying to raise money to pay for repairs or replace their homes while coming to...
Boston Marathon spectators who lost limbs in the bombings stand to benefit from years of advances in prosthetic medicine made at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.Calvin Todd, 26, is among those who have discovered a new life with the help of doctors at Walter Reed. The army medic was on foot patrol in Afghanistan in October 2012 when he stepped on an explosive.“I stepped o...
A witness to a fatal shooting Saturday described a tragic scene in which a knife-wielding woman warned a man that it was Judgment Day before she was shot and killed by a San Diego police officer.“We thought it was a couple having an argument but apparently it was more than that,” said Omar Orihuela. He was drawn into the dramatic confrontation when he heard a woman yelling outside his Bay Terraces...
David Chang, NBCPhiladelphia.comA fun night for a Pennsylvania couple turned deadly after police say the woman accidentally shot and killed her husband.On Friday, around 9 p.m., police say Michael Wanko, 43, and Michele Wanko, 42, were “casually drinking” vodka and lemonade together inside their home on West Roland Road in Parkside, Penn. Around 3:30 a.m., police say the couple went into their ...
Russian authorities have told U.S. investigators they recorded a 2011 telephone conversation between Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother in which the pair discussed jihad, according to a source briefed on the investigation.The conversation, which Russians have said was captured electronically via a wiretap, was not presented to U.S. authorities until after the April 15 bombing ...
