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rypson/iStock(NEWTON, Conn.) -- The seventh anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School is two and a half months away, but there is a different date that caused heartbreak for one mother.Nicole Hockley's six-year-old son Dylan was one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 shooting, and she has worked as an advocate for gun violence prevention ever since.Hockley posted an emotional tribute on Twitter on Monday, telling […]

WABC-TV(NEW YORK) -- Cellphone video captured a harrowing rescue on Monday, showing bystanders who scrambled to rescue a young girl when her father jumped in front of a moving train while holding her in his arms.The video showed commuters as they jumped into action on Monday morning when a 45-year-old man jumped to his death from a subway platform in the Bronx while holding his daughter.The 5-year-old girl miraculously landed […]

Kuzma/iStock(DALLAS) -- The trial of a white former Dallas police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man when she mistook his apartment for her own got underway Monday with a prosecutor telling a jury the officer fired first without making any effort to de-escalate the situation and a defense attorney countering that the exhausted officer made "innocent mistakes" that led her to fear for her life.In a case that […]

Dallas Police Department(DALLAS) -- Dallas police are searching for a man who shot a transgender woman several times over the weekend while yelling anti-LGBTQ slurs at her.The 35-year-old woman was shot late Friday night in an attack that police are investigating as a hate crime, according to the Dallas Police Department.Investigators said the gunman pulled up alongside the woman at around 11 p.m., shouted "a number of slurs regarding her […]

krblokhin/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A new book penned by Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard law professor and the former U.S. assistant attorney general, claims the FBI knows who killed legendary labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, but it won't admit that it blamed the wrong man.In his new book, In Hoffa’s Shadow, Goldsmith lays out his case for why he believes federal investigators allowed Chuckie O’Brien, the labor boss' protege, to be known as […]

pawel.gaul/iStock(SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) -- Already bracing for a tropical system in the next 24 hours, Puerto Rico was hit by an earthquake late Monday. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 6.0, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and was located about 46 miles northwest of the island. There is no tsunami threat for the island, or the neighboring U.S. Virgin Islands. There were at least seven aftershocks over 4.0 […]

iStock(SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.) -- An 11-year-old South Carolina boy stole his brother's car and drove over 200 miles to meet an adult male that he communicated with on Snapchat, police said.The child, from Simpsonville, had driven overnight Sunday to meet the unknown male when he became lost and pulled up next to a police cruiser, Charleston police said in a statement.Officer Christopher Braun encountered the boy at about 12:30 a.m. Monday […]