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MicroStockHub/iStock(EL PASO, TX) —  Police in El Paso, Texas issued a report of an active shooter at or near the Cielo Vista Mall, south of the El Paso International Airport. The first tweet from the department’s Twitter account came in at 1:03 p.m., local time. A second tweet reiterating the danger was issued at 1:29 …

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Baltimore Police Department(BALTIMORE) — The body of a 4-year-old Baltimore boy who was reported missing on Thursday been has been recovered from a dumpster, after authorities said on Saturday that his mother confessed that he “was not missing, but deceased.” Malachi Lawson was reported to have disappeared from his grandmother’s house on Thursday in northwest …

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ABC News(NEW YORK) — A New York woman drowned while paddleboarding in Long Island on Friday, police said. Lisa Margaritis, 49, was an experienced paddleboarder but drowned trying to help another woman caught in the strong current, Southold Police chief Martin Flatley said in a statement. Margaritis and two other women were part of a …

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Baltimore Police Department(BALTIMORE) —  The desperate search for a missing 4-year-old in Baltimore expanded to include the FBI on Friday, one day after the boy disappeared from his grandmother’s porch. Malachi Lawson was last seen at his grandmother’s house on Thursday on the 4500 block of Rogers Avenue in northwest Baltimore. He was with his …

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ABC News(MOSCOW) — It’s a nice day for a … fright wedding. Russian companies are potentially giving new meaning to “shotgun wedding– sending in a platoon of former police and special forces soldiers dressed in full combat gear to simulate a police raid on your reception and leave you tied in knots while tying the …

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iStock/KC Photography(ENCINITAS, Calif.) — Three people were killed Friday as a cliffside broke free and toppled onto beachgoers in Encinitas, California, on a sunny summer day at the popular seaside escape. One person was found dead at the beach, while two others who were transported to a local hospital in critical condition were later pronounced …

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iStock/Jag_cz(SANTA ANA, Calif.) — John Wayne Airport near Los Angeles shut down as power went out to the entire area Friday night. The airport, which is in Santa Ana, California, about 45 minutes southeast of downtown Los Angeles, was impacted by a fire at a substation in nearby Irvine. The power outage caused a full …

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sangaku/iStock(WASHINGTON) — U.S. military researchers have identified 25 more missing Korean War service members whose remains were included in 55 boxes turned over by North Korea last summer in the wake of President Donald Trump’s first meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Until now, seven sets of remains had been identified by researchers …

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Cameron Family(TAMPA, Fla.) —  When Matt Cameron and Kelli Davis got engaged in June 2018 and started planning their nuptials, she came up with an idea: In lieu of traditional wedding gifts, how about they do something for students in need? Cameron was completely on board with Davis, a first-grade teacher at Roland Park K-8 …

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Courtesy Karen Solomon(NEW YORK) —  When an off-duty New York City police officer shot and killed himself in his home on Staten Island as reported by WABC last week, it was the department’s fifth suicide since June and the seventh this year — part of what law enforcement advocates are calling an increasingly disturbing problem …

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