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Officials say a failed roof segment triggered a chain collapse through all seven levels of the structure under construction for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, PA — Philadelphia officials said Thursday night that search crews found no signs of life in the wreckage of a partially collapsed parking garage under construction in South Philadelphia, shifting the operation from rescue to recovery for two missing workers. Mayor Cherelle L. Parker said the change came after an …

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Police say four people are sought after gunfire on Market Street left a 20-year-old woman dead and two others wounded. PHILADELPHIA, PA — Arrest warrants have been issued for suspects in a West Philadelphia triple shooting that killed a 20-year-old woman who was walking back to work after buying lunch, police said Friday, as investigators said the victim appears to have been caught in an attack aimed at someone else. Authorities said Imani Ringgold was …

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Court records unsealed this week accuse Edward Russell Jr. in a cold-case cluster of killings that happened within days and blocks of each other. GARY, IN — A Gary man has been charged in four killings from February 2002 after prosecutors unsealed murder counts in a cold-case investigation that links two bloody crime scenes about a half-mile apart, city officials said this week. The charges name Edward Russell Jr. in the deaths of Mary Ann …

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Prosecutors say the suspect targeted a Flushing building at random after losing his job. NEW YORK, NY — A Queens man has been charged with murder and arson after prosecutors said he set a fire in a Flushing residential building last month, killing four people, including a 3-year-old girl, in what authorities described as a random and deadly act. Roman Amatitla, 38, was arraigned Thursday in Queens and ordered held without bail after prosecutors said …

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Police said a great-grandfather fought off the suspect and kept hold of the stroller until officers arrived. LONG BEACH, NY — A woman was charged after police said she tried to take a 14-month-old girl from a stroller during a daytime encounter on a Long Island street this week, prompting the child’s great-grandfather to wrestle her to the ground and hold her there until officers arrived. The confrontation has drawn wide attention in Long Beach …

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Authorities said the 60-year-old suspect remained barricaded Thursday night after hours of gunfire and a tactical response. PORTERVILLE, CA — A Tulare County sheriff’s detective was shot and killed Thursday while deputies were serving an eviction notice at a Porterville home, and the suspected gunman stayed barricaded inside for hours as officers exchanged fire and locked down nearby streets and schools. The killing quickly turned a civil process into a long and tense police operation …

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Police say two masked men entered an empty Collingdale rowhome, leading to a long barricade that ended with one arrest, a blaze and a death investigation. COLLINGDALE, PA — A burglary targeting Air Jordan sneakers at an empty Delaware County rowhome turned into a four-hour police standoff, a fire and the death of one suspect after officers surrounded the house overnight and tried to force the men out, according to local reports and officials. The …

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Authorities say the woman disappeared during a nighttime dinghy trip near Elbow Cay, and U.S. and Bahamian investigators are now treating the case as criminal. MARSH HARBOUR, BAHAMAS — Bahamian police have arrested a Michigan man after his wife disappeared in the water during a nighttime boat ride near Elbow Cay, a case that began as a search-and-rescue mission and has now shifted to a criminal investigation. Lynette Hooker, 55, was reported missing after her …

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Police say a 40-year-old man attacked Nilufa Easmin outside a Chevron station, and court testimony later said he admitted he went there intending to kill a clerk. FORT MYERS, FL — A 51-year-old gas station clerk and mother of two was killed outside her Fort Myers workplace on April 3 after a man armed with a hammer attacked her in the parking lot of a Chevron station, authorities said, leading to murder charges and a …

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Police say a worker was arrested after a six-alarm blaze destroyed a huge paper products distribution center. ONTARIO, CA — A social media video that appears to show a worker setting fire to pallets inside an Ontario warehouse is now central to an arson case after a six-alarm blaze destroyed a 1.2 million square foot distribution center early Tuesday and forced about 20 employees to evacuate. The fire tore through a Kimberly-Clark distribution site operated …

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