Living in an apartment with your canine companion isn’t much different from living with a human roommate: They don’t clean, they don’t pay for groceries and you’re starting to suspect they don’t even have a job.
But canine roommates present additional, unique challenges.

Temperatures soared to 96 degrees in Wilmington, North Carolina on Thursday. So, Melissa Martin and Denise Mintz gathered up their dogs Abby, Harpo and Izzy and headed to a nearby pond for a swim. Hours later, all three pups were dead.

Police are warning residents about two men who robbed taxi, ride-hailing service and delivery drivers last week in Austin on the West Side. The hold-ups all occurred in the 1200 block of North Mason Avenue, according to a community alert from Chicago police. In two cases, the suspects were driven to that location before exiting the vehicle and robbing the…

A 53-year-old man was rescued from the roof of a burning home Wednesday in Austin on the West Side.

A 53-year-old man was rescued from the roof of a burning home Wednesday in Austin on the West Side. Sandra Torres reports.

A woman accused of kidnapping an Austin mother who was later found dead was indicted Tuesday on a capital murder charge. The indictment accused Magen Fieramusca, 34, of strangling Heidi Broussard with a leash and her hands on or about Dec. 12, the day Broussard and daughter Margot Carey were reported missing from their apartment in southern Austin. An arrest…

At least 10 residents were displaced after an apartment fire in Austin Sunday morning. Chicago police said the fire broke out just before 1:30 a.m. in the 5400 block of W. Iowa Street. It began on the third floor and ultimately spread to multiple units, officials said. No one was injured, and the cause of the fire remains unknown. The…

A Chicago police vehicle was struck by a bullet Friday in Austin on the West Side. Officers were southbound in a marked squad car about 3:50 p.m. in the 4800 block of West Van Buren Street when they heard gunfire and realized their car had been struck, Chicago police said. The officers were not injured and were taken to a…

A Greek court has postponed the retrial of seven suspects on murder charges over the 2017 fatal beating of a Texan tourist on an island resort. It is to allow a lawyer newly hired by the victim’s family to familiarize himself with the case. The court on Wednesday postponed the case until Jan. 13. Six of the men, five Serbian...

Emergency officials say one person was killed and three others hurt in a reported “stabbing incident” in downtown Austin, Texas. Police say a suspect was taken into custody Friday morning. Austin-Travis County EMS said a man in his 20s was pronounced dead and a man in his 50s was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Two others were being...

Chicago police are warning Austin residents about three armed robberies that happened in one day last week in the West Side neighborhood. In each incident, one to three men approached someone on the street, Chicago police said. One of them displayed a handgun and took property from the victim before fleeing on foot or to a waiting vehicle. The robberies…

A recently-paroled man is accused of battering a 91-year-old woman and sexually assaulting her last week in University Village on the Near West Side.

More than a week after a 33-year-old Texas mother and her infant daughter vanished, authorities said Friday they found the woman dead more than 100 miles away but the baby safe, and have charged a suspect with kidnapping and tampering with a corpse. Heidi Broussard and her 1-month-old daughter, Margo Carey, were last seen Dec. 12 in their hometown of…

Austin police investigating the disappearance of 33-year-old Heidi Broussard and her 3-week-old daughter Margot Carey say a healthy infant was found at a home in Houston Thursday night and that a woman’s body was found nearby. Police confirmed Friday that a person has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and tampering with a corpse, but the identity of that...

As Texas legislators work towards possibly making CBD legal in the state, confiscation of the oil by federal officers has “skyrocketed” this year at DFW Airport, NBC 5 Investigates has learned.

A man found dead last month in Austin on the West Side has been confirmed as Cook County’s sixth cold-related death of the season. The 31-year-old man was pronounced dead at 1:33 p.m. Nov. 15 in the 1100 block of North Lawler Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was seen doing drugs about 12:20 p.m. before…

Police have arrested a man after he led them on a high-speed chase after a fatal shooting in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon.

A charger that overheated inside a backpack in an overhead compartment on a Southwest flight from Chicago Monday sent smoke into the cabin and sparked an evacuation of the plane, the airline and authorities said.

Authorities are still searching for a man who allegedly shot and killed his daughter’s mother’s new boyfriend of outside of a Chicago elementary school. Police say the gunman approached Richard Buick in his SUV early Friday outside of Moving Everest Charter School in the city’s West Side. The shooter fired and fled. Authorities say his 6-year-old daughter and her mother,...

A school nurse and another employee were among the first to rush to save a man who was shot outside of a school in Chicago’s South Austin neighborhood Friday morning.