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Sybil Peacock Harmon, one of Delta Air Lines’ very first flight attendants who later served in the military during World War II, has died. She was 103 years old. “We’re saddened to learn of Sybil Peacock Harmon’s passing,” Allison Ausband, senior vice president of in-flight service, told TODAY in an emailed statement. “Sybil was a beloved member of the Delta...

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...

Last June an air traveler collapsed at Midway Airport in full cardiac arrest, when four medically-trained Good Samaritans from all over the U.S. saved his life—a year later, the man is reunited with his heroes.

Last June an air traveler collapsed at Midway Airport in full cardiac arrest, when four medically-trained Good Samaritans from all over the U.S. saved his life—a year later, the man is reunited with his heroes. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter has the details.

Read the headlines on any given day across America and you’ll find evidence of a crisis roiling the criminal justice system: “Suicide leading cause of death in Utah jails.” ”San Diego County inmate suicide rate ‘staggeringly’ high.” ”Attempted suicides at Cuyahoga County Jail tripled over three-year span.” Stories like Tanna Jo Fillmore’s have been told time and again, and yet...

The world’s smallest surviving baby has been born in San Diego.

There’s a baby boom happening at a Maine hospital but it’s the nurses who are expecting. Nine nurses who all work in labor and delivery are pregnant at Maine Medical Center in Portland and are due between April and July. Eight of the pregnant nurses recently posed for a picture which was posted on the facility’s Facebook page. They held...

The group of white-haired folks — some pushing walkers, others using canes — arrive right on time at the gates of Laguna Woods Village, an upscale retirement community in the picturesque hills that frame this Southern California suburb a few miles from Disneyland.

When Polly Varnado’s 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it didn’t take long for the family to hear about insulin pumps. In September 2012, the girl picked out a purple one — her favorite color. Over the next seven months, she proceeded to be hospitalized four times in a McComb, Mississippi medical center with high blood sugar. But...

A last minute attack was launched Monday in a close race for congress in the suburbs just one day before Election Day.

A last minute attack was launched Monday in a close race for congress in the suburbs just one day before Election Day. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

A Jewish nurse who treated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect says that he saw confusion but not evil in the man’s eyes, and that his own actions stemmed from love. “I’m sure he had no idea I was Jewish,” registered nurse Ari Mahler wrote in a Facebook post Saturday about the shooting suspect, who was taken to Allegheny General Hospital...

A mother in Joliet went live on Facebook to express her outrage after she says she was told by county officials no one would be cleaning up blood from a homicide scene near where her children were playing in a Will County park.

A mother in Joliet went live on Facebook to express her outrage after she says she was told by county officials no one would be cleaning up blood from a homicide scene near where her children were playing in a Will County park. Trina Orlando reports.

U.S. Rep. Martha Roby won Alabama’s Republican runoff, fighting through lingering fallout from her years-old criticism of then-candidate Donald Trump in a midterm contest that hinged on loyalty to the GOP president. The four-term incumbent will now represent the GOP on the November ballot having defeated Bobby Bright, a former Democrat who tried to cast himself as the more authentic...

A former manager of a Collin County hospice has pleaded guilty to health care fraud, admitting her role in a $60 million scheme that involved drugging patients to “hasten their deaths,” according to court documents.

It has been four years since Southern Illinois University student Pravin Varughese was mysteriously found dead in the woods following a college party in 2014.

A man charged with killing a 19-year-old Southern Illinois University student in 2014 is set to go to trial Monday. Rob Stafford reports.