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Police say an Oklahoma man whose two children died when he left them inside his hot truck for hours has been arrested on second-degree murder warrants.

Kyle Clark, a news anchor in Denver, made an impassioned apology to a furry member of the Denver community during a recent broadcast. He heard a dog crying loudly in a locked car on a 90-degree day. When Clark confronted the dog’s owner, the person did not seem to care.

Retired Mets All-Star pitcher Dwight “Doc” Gooden has pleaded guilty to third-degree drug possession in connection with a cocaine bust in New Jersey in June, the Monmouth County prosecutor’s office said Wednesday.

Illinois officials are pushing a bill that would require new technology aimed at preventing hot car deaths. Kate Chappell reports. For more information, The National Safety Council offers a free online course about the danger of vehicular heatstroke in children <a href=”https://www.nsc.org/road-safety/safety-topics/child-passenger-safety/kids-hot-cars”>here</a>. 

Authorities say a man left his two sons in a hot pickup truck for more than two hours while he went into Lake Forest Hospital on Monday.

Retired Mets All-Star pitcher Dwight “Doc” Gooden faces drug charges after he was caught with suspected cocaine in New Jersey last month, according to a felony complaint obtained by News 4 Friday. The 54-year-old four-time All-Star, who also had a pitching stint for the Yankees, among other Major League Baseball teams, allegedly had two small green plastic bags containing a...

Retired Mets All-Star pitcher Dwight “Doc” Gooden faces drug charges after he was caught with suspected cocaine in New Jersey last month, according to a felony complaint obtained by News 4 Friday. The 54-year-old four-time All-Star, who also had a pitching stint for the Yankees, among other Major League Baseball teams, allegedly had two small green plastic bags containing a...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon swapped insults and clashed over policy Wednesday in their only scheduled debate before the Sept. 13 Democratic primary.

A woman was charged with neglect after authorities say she left her infant daughter in a hot vehicle while she drank alcohol inside her northwest Indiana home, according to a report.

A North Texas police officer took on the Texas heat to show others just how dangerous it can be.

The body of a man who fell into the Chicago River early this week was found Friday afternoon by a group of his friends, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

On a hot summer day, temperatures inside a car parked in the sun can reach 160 degrees in an hour, according to a new study.

A new study is delving into the dangers that can be posed by hot cars in the summer. NBC 5’s Lisa Parker has more details. 

CTA Pink Line trains were not operating in the Loop and other trains were facing major delays Monday morning because of signal problems near the Clark/Lake station.

Three people were injured, two of them critically, as police and firefighters responded to a multi-vehicle crash that closed multiple lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway Tuesday.

An infant left for about two hours in a hot car has died — the second such death in the past two days in the city, the Phoenix Fire Department said. Firefighters were called shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday to investigate a report of a 1-year-old boy in a car in the parking lot of the Free Church of God...

Police near Atlanta have charged a mother with felony murder after they say she left her 1-year-old daughter in a hot car while she spent six hours getting her hair done at a salon. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported 25-year-old Dijanelle Fowler also faces charges of child cruelty and concealing the death of Skylar Fowler on June 15. DeKalb County police...

A woman has been charged with animal cruelty after her dog died in a hot car while she shopped inside a west suburban mall this week.

A Chicago police officer was shot during a confrontation Friday afternoon on the city’s South Side, according to police.

A North Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the deaths of her two children from extreme heat exposure after they were found locked inside a car last month, deputies say.