Child shot protecting mom hailed a hero
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As the gunman was about to open fire, 7-year-old Alexis Goggins lunged from the back seat of the SUV and threw herself across her mom, crying, "Don't hurt my mother!"
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A college student celebrating the Red Sox come-from-behind victory over the New York Yankees was killed after a police officer called in to control the rowdy crowd shot her in the eye with what was designed to be a non-lethal projectile.
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The family of a mother and her two children who were murdered pay tribute to "the heart of their family."
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BESLAN, Russia When one small boy saw the armed soldier guarding the door of his school Wednesday morning, he pulled on his mother&#39;s hand and burst into tears.
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The city's first SWAT officer slain in the line of duty was remembered Friday as a deeply religious family man who went above and beyond the duties of a good cop, dedicating his life to protecting others as well as helping poor children escape inner-city streets.
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The mother of a man among five killed in a crash on the M4 speaks of her "devastation" for the victims' families.
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Hundreds of people attended a funeral Monday for a woman killed in a shooting rampage at a Jewish charity, saying they hoped her violent death would prompt actions of peace.
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The mother of the teenage gunman who killed eight people at a busy shopping mall last week apologized Thursday for her son's crime and said she did her best raising him.
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The wife of a soldier killed in an ambush in Iraq says he was a hero to everyone who knew him.
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About 5,000 motorcyclists rode in a caravan in honor of the 16-year-old girl who was shot at her high school by a gunman who held her hostage.
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A one-year-old girl became the latest victim of Boston's wave of gun violence when she was shot and wounded in the leg as her father carried her into their home, local media reported on Saturday.
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The father of a 3-year-old who was beaten to death during an attack on her day care center has been named as the suspect in the rampage, which also left two women hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
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The two people who died in a fire tackled by more than 20 firefighters were a mother and her daughter.
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When a hail of bullets hit the car in which Jinan Adnan and her family were riding, she followed her maternal instincts &#151; and paid with her life.
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Locals believe they know who shot 11-year-old.
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Police shot and killed a woman on a busy roadway Tuesday after she walked into traffic with a child and threatened passing drivers with a knife, authorities said.
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It was an iconic image of hope in the death and chaos that ended the three-day Beslan school siege &#151; a girl's bloodied hand clutching a golden cross.