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(Daily Mail) - The wife of a Mississippi high school football coach was gunned down Monday night after she found a man lurking in their backyard.
Her husband was also shot as he sprinted outside their New Albany home to help her, but he is expected to recover.
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(Daily Mail) - Sgt Darwin Butler is a hard-bitten Chicago police veteran who has worked some of his city’s most violent neighborhoods for decades.
So, when he pulled up to a shooting scene and found yet another young man shot dead in a car, he checked for signs of life and took the normal steps to secure the crime scene.
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(Reuters By JIM FORSYTH) - A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.
The 38-year-old woman entered the Texas Health and Human Services Commission office in downtown Laredo on Monday afternoon and demanded to speak to a supervisor, said investigator Joe Baeza of the Laredo Police Department.
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(Daily Mail By LEON WATSON) - A gunman went on the rampage killing three people, including a baby, and then himself in an apparent murder-suicide last night.
Neighbours in New Jersey said the violence erupted from a domestic dispute in a small, white ranch house near the Bayonne Bridge.
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(CBS Chicago) - It was a scene of sheer terror overnight, two men accosted an 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest as he lay sleeping in his South Side rectory and brutally beat him.
As CBS 2′s Susanna Song reports, police say shortly before 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, the suspects broke into the rectory at St. Margaret of Scotland Church, at 9849 S. Throop St. in the Longwood Manor neighborhood, and found the Rev. Dan Mallette sleeping.
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(Daily Mail By RACHEL QUIGLEY) - A 26-year-old woman is dead after apparently throwing herself off the Queen Mary ocean liner into freezing water after an argument with her boyfriend.
The woman, who has not yet been identified, was said to have plunged 75 feet into the water from the ship in Long Beach Harbour, California, last night.
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(WTSP) - The holiday season is supposed to be a time of joy. But in Stafford County, one family is suffering through tears, anger and pain. They’ve been hammered by a barrage emails from their dead mother’s account.
They cannot make it stop. Every other day another email from the hacker hit’s them. “Male enhancement!” “Work at home!” “Cheap Viagra!” — all from their dead mother’s account — and each a reminder of the pain of losing her.
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(Daily Mail By LOUISE BOYLE) - These are the distressing images of horses left by the side of the road after a year-long drought meant their owners could no longer afford to feed them.
After a year without rain in Texas, coupled with rocketing temperatures, crops have been sparse and the price of a bale of hay has doubled.
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(Daily Mail By LOUISE BOYLE) - A seven-year-old girl who went missing on Friday afternoon is feared to have been abducted.
Police and volunteers spent the weekend combing the area around the apartment complex playground where Jorelys Rivera was last seen.
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(Daily Mail) - A 10-year-old boy killed himself Saturday night at his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, authorities said.
The boy’s mother found him unresponsive and called police. He later died.
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