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Five people were killed - including a young boy - and 15 injured late Saturday when an SUV rolled over southeast of Tucson, authorities said.Arizona Department of Public Safety officials said preliminary investigations suggested 20 people were traveling inside the Chevrolet Tahoe at the time of the accident at Interstate 10 and Arizona State Route 83.The fatalities included a young boy, NBC statio...
Amid a week of terror in Boston, one common theme of support emerged online and off, locally, across America and around the world: "Boston Strong.""We are one. We are strong. We are Boston. We are Boston strong," the Red Sox public address announcer said to an eruption of cheers Saturday, as the city came together at the first home game following the tragic events. The crowd honored the fallen and...
As prosecutors prepare to charge 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the deadly twin bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, investigators are delving into numerous unanswered questions surrounding the attack and the brothers believed to have carried it out.Officials say Tsarnaev is said to be unable to speak due to a possibly self-inflicted throat wound, but he is responding to investigators’ questions ...
Sabino Fuentes-Sanchez hid $25,000 all around his house because he didn't trust banks. Lasonia Christon receives her Walmart salary on a pre-paid debit card. Kim James was homeless for most of the past decade in part because she had no place to save money. There are plenty of reasons people still live all-cash lives, but the sheer number who do it might surprise you. At a time when the ma...
Five people were killed in a shooting at an apartment complex near Seattle late on Sunday, including a suspect who was shot by officers, police said.Officers were called to a shooting in progress at around 9:30 p.m. local time (12:30 a.m. ET) emergency call from the complex in Federal Way, which is between Seattle and Tacoma, police spokeswoman Cathy Schrock said.Gunshots were still being heard wh...
They were once featured on the show “Dirty Jobs” but the wildlife experts who spend weeks each year wrestling wild birds to swab their behinds for avian flu don’t mind. They’re happy to be on the front line, keeping an eye out for infected birds that might bring new and deadly strains of influenza to the United States.The program’s been dialed back a bit since it started in 2005, but the U.S. Geol...
In cloudy, drizzly Seattle, Denis Hayes, the environmental activist who organized the first Earth Day in 1970, is pulling the wraps off a six-story office building that generates all of its electricity via an oversized rooftop array of solar panels.A sun-powered building in Seattle is "formidable," Hayes told NBC News, but the Bullitt Center project aims to show it is possible in a visible, tangib...
California safety regulators have fined a Disney contractor $60,995 after a worker was injured while cleaning the Space Mountain ride.The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health says Los Angeles-based HSG Inc. violated several safety rules. The fine was levied on Friday.A 37-year-old contractor fell and suffered broken bones last November while cleaning the exterior of Space Mountain...
By Gabe Gutierrez, Nery Ynclan, and Christina Caron, NBC NewsWEST, TEXAS – In the small, close-knit town of West, if you slow down and pull over, the driver behind you will ask if you need help or directions.So it’s no surprise that when off-duty Dallas firefighter Capt. Kenny Luckey Harris found out smoke was rising from the West Fertilizer Co., he rushed over to help his hometown."He was worried...
