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Lynzee Ford, a senior at Kilgore High School in Texas, was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year, and although she underwent several treatments, doctors recently told the teen that she had only four months to live. “Well, I didn’t take it too hard, I didn’t want to stress myself out, so I decided to take…

Two New York City police officers are recovering after they were attacked last week by a man brandishing a hatchet in the borough of Queens, police officials told the New York Daily News on Saturday. The attack occurred Thursday when four rookie officers were posing for photos in the middle of the afternoon near Jamaica…

In a firsthand account of her experience under a mandatory Ebola quarantine in New Jersey, a health care worker condemned the process, calling it disorganized, frightening and chaotic. Kaci Hickox, the first traveler quarantined Friday under guidelines announced the same day, wrote the account for the Dallas Morning News in a piece that appeared Saturday.…

A West Baltimore group of girls allegedly beat and robbed a teenage girl just blocks away from a local mall where she planned to submit a job application. The victim’s mother, who didn’t want to be identified, told WJZ in Baltimore that the group that attacked her daughter is part of the “Sisterhood” gang. “They…

Volunteers resumed searching Saturday for 8-year-old Relisha Rudd, who went missing seven months ago after her mother entrusted her in the care of a janitor, who worked at the homeless shelter where the family lived in Washington, D.C. Four teams—including search-and-rescue workers from Maine, who arrived in the area Thursday to help out—scoured three areas…

Commissioner William Bratton of the New York City Police Department said Friday that a hatchet attack on four rookie cops a day earlier was an “act of terror” by a homegrown radical, according to the Associated Press. The man, Zale Thompson, 32, was shot and killed Thursday when he reportedly attacked a group of rookie…

A Los Angeles police officer is under fire amid allegations that he kicked and beat a man who was being held down by other officers, sources close to the investigation told the Los Angeles Times. Four officers involved in the arrest and a sergeant who arrived on the scene have been relieved of duty with…

Some may call it an accident, but by most accounts, Kenneth J. Stokes of Norwood, Mass., is a lucky man. He won $546,000 in the Massachusetts State Lottery this week after his number came up twice, according to ABC’s Good Morning America. This is what happened: He is a lottery season ticket holder in the…

After the first case of Ebola was diagnosed in New York City, state officials in New York and New Jersey announced a screening system on Friday that is stricter than federal guidelines for those entering the United States from some West African nations. Medical personnel and others coming from Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia after…