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A little girl's letter to Santa launched by a red balloon was found miles away by a stranger who, sensing a connection with its author, wanted to find her and make her Christmas wish come true.

A woman was killed and a man critically injured in a shooting outside a San Diego mall in the early morning hours of Tuesday, police said.The female victim who died called 911 at 1:15 a.m. local time from the parking lot of Macy’s in the Westfield Mission Valley Mall, said San Diego Police Lt.

Helpless property owners and families of those killed in June’s fatal Arizona wildfire are joining forces six months later — filing a spate of lawsuits collectively seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from government and fire officials.

AFSCME Local 2985 members at Oakdale’s Iowa Medical and Classification Center stepped up their annual donation to Toys for Tots—by almost threefold, reported the Iowa City Press-Citizen. 

TUPELO, Miss. — Suspected bank robbers shot a policeman dead and wounded a second officer as they made their getaway after a hold up, police in Mississippi said.

Engineers are battling to get hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest and Northeast back on the grid in time for Christmas Day after an ice storm brought down trees and power lines.

Television talk-show host Arsenio Hall was uninjured after driving his car off a road near Los Angeles on Monday evening, police said.The Los Angeles Police Department said Hall was involved in a single-vehicle accident at 7.15 p.m. local time (10.15 p.m.

An “extremely intoxicated” woman was taken to hospital late Tuesday after entering the elephant pen at Denver Zoo and receiving a shock from an electric fence, police and officials said.The incident happened at about 9 p.m. local time (11 p.m.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden said his "mission's already accomplished" after leaking NSA secrets that have caused a reassessment of U.S.

JPMorgan Chase is easing restrictions it placed on customers who used debit cards at Target stores during a massive credit and debit card security breach at Target stores, the company told customers Monday.