A tree blew over onto a house in Arkansas, killing an 18-year-old woman and trapping a one-year-old child inside, authorities said.
The police heard loud music coming from a house late Wednesday night and found kegs, bottles of liquor and a beer pong table when they went inside, authorities said.
The sound of yipping and whining coming from a van parked behind a New Jersey pet store led to the discovery of more than 50 puppies packed in small cages inside, authorities said.
Once inside, the authorities said, the police found crack pipes and several grams of cocaine.
She had waited 10 minutes to tell anyone that the boy was trapped inside, the authorities said.
Three boys and three girls, ages 8 to 16, barricaded themselves inside, the authorities said, after their mother was arrested on Tuesday on charges of child neglect.
After searching all night in the wreckage of a collapsed steel-and-glass canopy and a parking garage underneath it, emergency workers in Hackensack, N.J., concluded on Saturday morning that no one had been trapped inside, the authorities said.
She had been approached outside the restaurant by a masked man who held a gun to her back and ordered her inside, the authorities and a fellow employee said.
A man with an assault rifle opened fire on a car at a traffic light today, spraying it with bullets and killing three of the four men inside, the authorities said.
A 13-year-old girl was killed and her sister and another family member were injured when a fire broke out in the girl's bedroom, apparently trapping her inside, the authorities said yesterday.
But yesterday, the police said that it appeared that the dead man, Benjamin Brooks, 23, had simply missed a southbound C train at 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem around 6 30 p.m. His friends were already inside, the authorities said, so Mr. Brooks apparently decided to hang by his fingers, and balance by his feet, from the outside of the car's door.
