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An animal hospital in central Illinois recently gave bereaved pet owners an opportunity to memorialize their beloved pets. They gathered in Decatur Sunday to pray and share stories at the service held by Northgate Pet Clinic, the Decatur Herald and Review reported. Veterinary assistant Angie Litz, who helped organize the ceremony, said there can be a stigma around grieving a...

The Mexican government on Wednesday released a trove of unedited videos showing its botched raid seeking to arrest a son of drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The Mexican government’s failed attempt to capture one of Guzmán’s youngest sons, Ovidio Guzmán, on Oct. 17 left eight dead and at least 20 more injured after cartels members waged a gun battle...

A man in his 30s was killed Thursday in a shooting at Watermarke Tower, a luxury downtown LA apartment complex, according to LAPD.

A man was found shot in a freight elevator at Watermarke Tower, a 36-story luxury apartment building. Jane Yamamoto reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019.

An off-duty security guard shot three men, killing one, during a possible attempted robbery Friday morning in Lynwood. Gene Kang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Friday Sept. 20, 2019.

A Van Nuys based electronics company designed an aggression detector to detect violent behavior through changes in a persons voice, in hopes to prevent school shootings. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019.

A man who allegedly approached security officers while armed with a sharp object was shot in a hand Tuesday outside a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.

A fugitive on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list who was arrested in Maryland is suspected in the death of a Southeast D.C. woman, according to police.

Police have determined there were no signs of forced entry in Porter Ranch triple homicide investigation. Patrick Healy reports for NBC 4 News at 6 p.m. Tuesday, feb. 19, 2019.

A man arrested at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Downey by police officers responding to a report of gunfire — prompting a lockdown and evacuation even though police later determined no shots had actually been fired — was charged Thursday with three felony counts.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Marquette University shouldn’t have fired a conservative professor over his blog post that criticized a student instructor he believed shut down discussion about opposition to gay marriage. The 120-page ruling concluded that the Catholic school breached its contract guaranteeing academic freedom with former professor John McAdams. The court said McAdams should immediately be...

A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire Friday outside a church in a Cairo suburb and at a nearby store, sparking a shootout that killed at least nine people, including eight Coptic Christians, authorities said. It was the latest attack targeting Egypt’s embattled Christian minority. The gunman was also killed, along with at least one police officer, officials said. The...

After dealing with a huge, disruptive illegal sideshow last week, Union City police and property owners said they have a new plan to try to stop another planned sideshow in its tracks.

Notorious jewel thief Doris Payne was arrested Monday for allegedly shoplifting at an Atlanta-area Walmart, NBC News reported. Payne, known for her international jewel heists spanning six decades, claimed that she forgot to pay for the items she had shoplifted after taking medicine. A security officer at Walmart offered a different account, saying that Payne had piled items into her...

The town of Newtown and its Board of Education asked a judge to throw out the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of two children killed during the Sandy Hook shootings in December 2012. The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court in January 2015, alleges security measures at the school weren’t adequate when Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 first-graders...

A pregnant polar bear seeking to dig her maternity den chose an unlikely spot: a snow drift along a bridge leading to an artificial production island off the north coast of Alaska. As a threatened species, polar bears are entitled to peaceful pregnancies and the operating oil company, Hilcorp Alaska LLC, took vigorous measures to make sure that happened. In...

A man has filed a lawsuit against Carnival Cruise after his wife died after going overboard.

Marvin Hatchett spends school hours working as a security officer at Wilson Middle School in Pasadena, where he looks after thousands of predominantly low-income students. But after the bell, he marches to a different beat, volunteering as a one-man performing arts program with little to no funding.

A Miami man was arrested last Friday for carrying a concealed firearm in to Disney World, Orange County Sheriff’s Office said.