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Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An elderly woman was killed after a suspect stole the vehicle she was a passenger in and then crashed into a building in Washington, D.C., police said. The carjacking was reported at Washington Hospital Center Monday afternoon, police said. The elderly victim was sitting in the front passenger seat of […]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEWTON, Mass.) — A couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and a relative in her 90s were found stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a Boston area home over the weekend, prompting authorities to warn residents to lock their doors and be vigilant as investigators work to identify the killer, officials said. The […]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — A father and his four children were saved from an early morning house fire by a neighbor and a passerby who saw smoke coming from the home’s garage and were able to alert the sleeping family, police said. The fire was reported around 5:35 a.m. Wednesday at a home in South […]

Kali9/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO, Texas) — An elderly man was killed and a woman critically injured in a “horrific” dog attack in Texas on Friday, authorities said. The incident occurred around 1:45 p.m. local time in a residential area of San Antonio. Responding firefighters had to fend off the dogs with pickaxes and pipe poles, […]