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The body of a small boy has been confirmed as a missing 5-year-old, authorities said Saturday.The body found Friday off an Interstate that runs north in Massachusetts has been positively identified as Jeremiah Oliver, Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said.

Two runners talk to NBC about why they decided to run the Boston 5K, the first public event of the Boston Marathon Weekend.

A 62-year-old woman was killed in her sleep early Saturday when a stolen car crashed through a wall of her central Florida home, police said.

A slow-motion disaster continued unfolding in the Wyoming resort town of Jackson on Saturday, as a creeping landslide that split a hillside home threatened to swallow up more houses and businesses.

By NECN.comEven after last year's marathon, Boston EMS is preparing for this year the way they do for most, with an eye on the weather.The bombings, of course, they couldn't predict. But at a major sporting event, with a majority of amateurs on the course, they will be ready for anything.

A high school student is in hot water for asking Miss America to prom during a question and answer session at his Pennsylvania school.

Armed Robbers in Elizabeth, N.J., tied up the owners of a scrap metal yard Friday and shot at police in an attempt to steal nearly $250K in car parts.

Debra Denison, who shot and killed her two grandsons before committing suicide, reportedly left a note to their parents before last year's grisly act.

Chocolate bunnies will be in kids' baskets on Easter. His ears will be the first to go, and there’s a good chance it will be a parent eating them.

Columbine High School Littleton, Colorado April 20, 199913 killed (15 including the shooters), 21 injuredSam’s entire ten day journey has led up to his final stop, Columbine High School.

In the wake of the ferry disaster, entertainment is on hiatus in South Korea.

The wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect has never been implicated in the attack, but her proximity to it has put her in a prison without bars.

In July 2012, the Monday after a gunman opened fire on a crowded Aurora, Colo., movie theater, Jennifer Hammer tapped a text message to a friend.

A crash sent a pickup careening into a storefront, pinning a shopper and injuring a total of five people afternoon in Chicago.

The seven-year-old boy who died while swimming in a North Miami pool was laid to rest Friday.