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The Rutledge family of Simsbury, Conn., decided to make a sign for their front yard to thank essential workers during the pandemic – then the requests from neighbors started rolling in. The family of five has now made almost 1,000 signs and raised $11,000 in donations to help make PPE for nearby medical facilities.

Psychotherapist Dr. Robi Ludwig stopped by “Chicago Today” to discuss how to help ease stress for the many Moms who are feeling overwhelmed and overworked in the age of Covid-19. For her full interview and insight on how to prevent “Mom guilt” click here. (hyperlink to interview video) The one wellness activity Robi thinks every mom and family should be…

The reward for information leading to a 5-year-old New Jersey girl climbed to $35,000 Friday as a search that involved more than one hundred local and federal officers failed to turn up the missing child.

The grandmother of a 5-year-old girl now missing for the last 72 hours from a park in Bridgeton, New Jersey, pleaded for the public’s help Thursday.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a young girl who was taken while visiting a South Jersey park.

A mother, a father and their four sons were found wounded in a home in San Diego’s Paradise Hills community Saturday morning in an apparent case of murder-suicide, investigators confirmed. Five of the family members died.

Newly-released bodycam footage from police shows a Chicago Public Schools principal saying that a 9-year-old boy left school on his own, despite surveillance video showing a security guard physically force him out as she looked on.

“The Casagrandes,” Nickelodeon’s new original animated series that centers around an 11-year-old girl trying to survive a big city, is one of the first cartoons in the U.S. to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family. The long-awaited spin-off from the network’s popular animation series, “The Loud House,” premiered Monday and comes as more networks are taking chances on Latino-themed shows....

A Chicago elementary school principal who looked on as a security guard physically forced a fourth-grader out of the building on a cold day has retired. Cynthia Miller retired from her job at Fiske Elementary School on Friday. In a letter to parents, she wrote that leaving wasn’t easy but was the right thing to do, the Chicago Sun-Times...

A Cuban man who legally sought asylum died by apparent suicide while being detained at an immigration jail in Louisiana, authorities said Wednesday.

A family in Chicago claims their 9-year-old son was dragged through a hallway at his public school and shoved out of a door into the streets of one of Chicago’s “most violent neighborhoods with no coat in cold weather during the middle of the school day,” a lawsuit filed Tuesday claims.

A family in Chicago claims their 9-year-old son was dragged through a hallway at his public school and shoved out of a door into the streets of one of Chicago’s “most violent neighborhoods with no coat in cold weather during the middle of the school day,” a lawsuit filed Tuesday claims. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando has the latest.

A report of a suicidal man led to the discovery of 50 guns, eight inert grenades, pipe bomb materials, swords and more than two thousand rounds of ammunition inside a Philadelphia home Wednesday, according to police.

The U.S. Coast Guard and a number of other law enforcement agencies are in a “race against time” to find two missing firefighters — including one from Fairfax County, Virginia — as the search for the men stretches into a sixth day.

Peter Fonda, the two-time Oscar nominee, brother of Jane Fonda and son of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda has died, family said Friday.

A driver struck and killed a man who was jogging in Sutton, Massachusetts, Wednesday morning, according to witnesses and police. Authorities are searching for a white SUV with damage on the passenger side. The hit-and-run took place on Singletary Avenue, leaving a 51-year-old man from neighboring Millbury, Daniel De Lima, dead in a yard, according to the Sutton Police Department.

Mourners said their final goodbyes Monday to Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy who died last week on Cape Cod at the age of 22. The mass for Kennedy Hill was held at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville Monday morning, four days after she was found unresponsive at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

Community members in Orem, Utah are in shock after a freak golfing accident killed a little girl.

Family members of a 7-year-old boy from Honduras who is diabetic with kidney complications are pleading for the child to be brought to the Chicago area for treatment.

A newly released video capturing a family’s brawl at Disneyland this weekend has prompted police to reopen their investigation into the fight, authorities said Monday. Officers were called to the theme park on Saturday to help break up the melee, which began between a brother and sister but quickly involved other family members, Anaheim police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said. The...