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Timberlake Regional School Board(PLAISTOW, N.H.) -- Fighting back tears, a fifth-grader recently pleaded with her school board to help end bullying.At a June 7 Timberlane School Board meeting, Delanie Marcotte, who attends Pollard School in Plaistow, New Hampshire, read a letter detailing her experience, hoping district leaders would make a change."I have been threatened to get shot in the head with an AK-47 and buried in my backyard and many […]

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- New York Police Department officers are being hailed as heroes after they saved a baby Saturday night out at Coney Island.Michael Pace, 26, and Joseph Doyle, 26, were waiting at a red light when Caroline Ivanov came rushing to their patrol car, banging on it, begging for help, authorities said. Ivanov's daughter, Chloe, wasn't breathing."The baby was blue-ish tint. She wasn't breathing. A lot of bubbles out […]

Starr County Sheriff's Office(GRANJENO, Texas) -- Texas officials are investigating the death of a Honduran man last month in an apparent suicide – after he was separated from his family following his arrest for crossing illegally into the United States. Marco Antonio Munoz, 39, was apprehended in Texas by U.S. Border Patrol agents on May 11, and transferred to a Rio Grande Valley processing center.While being processed "he became disruptive […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- A man who allegedly deserted the U.S. Air Force and vanished without a trace 35 years ago was found at a California home living under a fake name, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations said in a news release.William Howard Hughes Jr. allegedly deserted the Air Force in July 1983 after coming back from temporary duty in Western Europe, the Air Force said.At the time, Hughes was […]

iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) -- The apparent alligator attack that resulted in the death of a Florida woman who was walking her dogs near a lake is an extremely rare occurrence, authorities said.An estimated 5 million American gators live in the southeastern United States -- about one-quarter of them in Florida alone -- but the likelihood of being seriously hurt from an "unprovoked alligator incident in Florida is roughly only one in 3.2 […]

moodboard/Thinkstock(SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.) -- The body of a missing Southern California woman was found wrapped in a blue tarp alongside a crude wooden box, authorities said.Marlene Santellan, 34, of San Bernardino, had been reported missing for 11 days when her body was discovered at around 8 a.m. on Sunday, jutted against a chain-link fence under a tarp and next to a plywood box. Police believe the box may have been […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CLEVELAND, Ohio) -- Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward to anyone who has information about a mysterious Ohio home explosion, which killed one and critically injured another.The East Cleveland house had recently been sold and was vacant at the time of the Sunday afternoon explosion, East Cleveland Police Chief Michael Cardilli said at a news conference Monday.It's unclear why the victims were there and the cause was under investigation, Cardilli […]

iStock/Thinkstock(CHARLOTTE) -- A sheriff’s deputy's car nearly crushed a girl as she boarded a school bus in South Carolina, as seen on surveillance video obtained by ABC Charlotte affiliate WSOC-TV.Newly released video from the May incident shows the unnamed Anderson County Sheriff’s Office deputy driving past the parked bus and grazing Pendleton High School student Jordan Reyes, 15, who was waiting at a bus stop.“I've been reliving it every day,” […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- A foreign affairs reporter with USA Today was hit and killed by a car while he was riding his motorcycle in Washington, D.C., according to local police.Journalist Oren Dorell was on a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle heading east on H Street on Friday night when he collided with a Toyota Camry, police said.Dorell, 53, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead."We're mourning the loss of Oren […]