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Texas shooting: Death sweeps across 3 generations of a single family gathered at church
Houses of worship are among the few places left where families regularly gather together, sometimes extended and sometimes across many generations.

A 3-year-old shot two toddlers in home day care. A Detroit area couple now faces charges.
Samantha Eubanks was taking care of six children in her Dearborn, Michigan, home one morning in late September when she heard a noise upstairs.

Old friends from Argentina reunited in New York. Five died together in a terrorist attack.
The brazen daytime attack, which took place less than 10 blocks away from the World Trade Center and 9/11 Memorial, sent shock waves through the city - but also thousands...

Kellogg’s apologizes for “racist” lone brown corn pop on cereal box
Novelist Saladin Ahmed was looking at the back of a Corn Pops cereal box when he noticed a small but jarring detail.

A Massachusetts veteran died as a nurse’s aide played video games instead of checking on him, report says
The day after Bill Nutter was found dead in his bed at the Bedford VA Medical Center in 2016, a staff member from the Massachusetts hospital told his wife that...

A Utah teen said it would be “awesome” to help a friend kill herself. Now he’ll be tried for murder.
Weeks before her death, 16-year-old Jchandra Brown confided in her friend, Tyerell Przybycien, that she wanted to kill herself. When Przybycien, 18, asked another friend what he should do, the...

“Me too”: Alyssa Milano urged assault victims to tweet in solidarity. The response was massive.
Actress Alyssa Milano took to Twitter on Sunday with an idea, suggested by a friend, she said.

A Minnesota hospital threw a stillborn baby out with dirty laundry. Now the family is suing.
The staff of Regions Hospital, in St. Paul, Minnesota, offered to arrange for the cremation of the baby's remains in a "respectful and dignified manner," according to a lawyer for...

Model in “racist” Dove ad says it was misinterpreted: “I am not a victim”
When Dove asked Lola Ogunyemi to be in a new soap campaign, she viewed it as an opportunity to represent her "dark-skinned sisters" and "remind the world that we are...

He helped a kidnapped girl return home. Now he’s giving her his $7,000 reward.
Earl Melchert is an avid hunter who often looks out over the grassy fields behind his property in western Minnesota, scouting for deer and other animals, his wife said.