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A Major League Baseball player was stabbed to death Monday in the Netherlands, police said.

Police in Bulgaria say a stuntman has died and another has been seriously injured while filming an explosion scene on the set of "The Expendables 2."...

Seal Beach police said the death toll from the salon shooting has risen to eight people. A ninth victim is in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. "This could be one of our greatest tragedies," Police Sgt. Steve Bowles said.

A 16-year-old who told police he shook a 14-month-old girl, striking her head on a dresser, has been charged with murder. Javarris Jawan Lane was charged with aggravated child abuse after Alexandria Williams was found unresponsive in a bedroom on Sept. 25, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Alexandria was hospitalized in critical condition then died Thursday. Lane was charged with murder Wednesday.
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A pilot watched his injured, 78-year-old mother die in the rough waters of the Chesapeake Bay as they both tried to swim to safety after his single-engine airplane crashed and sank more than a mile off the shore of Smith Island, Maryland State Police said Monday....

Geno Martini, the mayor of Sparks, Nev., cancels a motorcycle event and declares a state of emergency after the fatal shooting of Jeffrey Pettigrew, 51, during a casino melee. The fatal shooting of a California Hells Angels leader during a casino melee with a rival gang Friday night has prompted the mayor of Sparks, Nev., to declare a state of emergency and cancel an annual motorcycle event, authorities said.

A gunman killed a person Sunday at a central Florida home, then wounded two others at a church about a block away, authorities said. It was unknown if a suspect had been caught.

A gunman apparently was motivated by revenge against a Good Samaritan when he opened fire, killing a 3-year-old and leaving a pregnant woman and her toddler critically wounded, police said.

Police say former NBA player Javaris Crittenton has been charged with murder after a woman was shot on an Atlanta street.

A police bomb squad was investigating the discovery of a suspicious device found near the body of a woman who was struck and killed by a freight train near a northwest Seattle park.