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A 2-year-old boy was recovering from cuts on his hand and parents were on edge as police Tuesday tried to figure out who glued about a dozen razor blades to playground equipment in a park in western Illinois.

A man was run over by an L Train in Brooklyn Tuesday morning when he jumped down onto the tracks to get his cell phone, but emerged unscathed because he lay down when the train arrived, the MTA said.

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew's treatment for a benign enlarged prostate on Tuesday "went well and as planned," a Treasury spokesperson said.

“No one loved the game of football more than Ralph Wilson,” CEO and club president Russ Brandon said.

A county emergency chief insisted Tuesday that officials could not have anticipated the Washington mudslide that killed at least 14 people — and suggested it might have been triggered by a small earthquake days almost two weeks earlier.

Business slows along the Texas coast after Galveston Bay oil spill halts fishing in the Texas City Dike. KPRC's Keith Garvin reports.

A Massachusetts family frees a deer after finding it stuck in their picket fence. WJAR's Mario Hilario reports the family caught the entire event on camera.

Crews work to recover thousands of gallons of oil from Galveston Bay in wake of barge collision, as wind and currents carry the oil toward local wildlife. NBC's Jay Gray reports.

After their lawyers made oral arguments before the Supreme Court, Hobby Lobby founder Barbara Green, Anthony Hahn from Conestoga Wood, Marcia Greenberger of the National Women's Law Center and Cecile Richards from Planned Parenthood make remarks.

Every middle school student in McDowell County, W.Va.—nearly 900—was presented with a new free laptop last week as part of the initiative to improve education in an economically struggling county of underperforming schools, drug and alcohol abuse, housing shortages, limited medical services and inadequate access to technology and transportation.