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With a chase, a raging gun battle, and a blazing cabin fire, the hunt for suspect Christopher Dorner that has kept Southern California in terror for the past week may have come to an end on Tuesday.

Want a reason to support unions? A union may help keep you alive.Your chances of surviving a hospital stay after a myocardial infarction—also known as a heart attack—are higher if your nurses are in a union than if they’re not.That’s the conclusion of a study by academics at the University of Massachusetts and the University of California. It’s also part of a much larger picture that the media ignore, that might give even right-wing Republicans a reason to support unions, and that makes the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics evidence of a dwindling union presence bad news for all of us.

A stockpile of guns was seized from the home of Christian Phillip Oberender, 32, just outside of Minneapolis, raising questions of how he was able to create such an arsenal after killing his mother with a gun in the same house in 1995. NBC’s Kevin Tibbles reports. (TODAY)

A man who was carjacked by alleged cop killer Christopher Dorner in California's Big Bear mountains on Tuesday escaped only seconds before a deadly shootout began.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were hunting a prisoner who stabbed a Miami-Dade Police officer and escaped custody in Grapevine, Texas, on Monday night.

A woman visiting New York City was raped in an alleyway near a nightclub in midtown early Sunday morning, police said.

Price tags are as fundamental to a market economy as money. Yet they've become an endangered species in the 21st century American economy.

Four teenagers were killed in a single-vehicle crash in California's Kern County on Monday. All of the dead were from Oakland, Calif. Three of the four had the same last name, according to the Kern County coroner. It is believed they were cousins.

Investigators discovered charred human remains late Tuesday within a torched California mountain cabin where police sources say ex-cop Christopher Dorner barricaded himself after a deadly shootout with sheriff’s deputies.

In the final moments of his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama pivoted from a policy-heavy political speech to an emotional plea for lawmakers to at least vote on reforms to the nation’s gun laws.