Workers at shelters in the Houston area say some animals respond to a variety of spoken languages

NBC and Telemundo stations across the country will team up with hundreds of shelters nationwide on Aug. 18 for the fourth annual Clear the Shelters animal adoption drive.

Jane Lynch is throwing a party and she’s inviting all her four-legged friends. You’re invited too. Lynch is joining NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations’ nationwide pet adoption initiative Clear the Shelters as both spokesperson and host of the “Clear the Shelters” TV special that will air on Aug. 25. on NBC and Telemundo stations. The program will recap this year’s adoption...

A second victim has publicly come forward saying she was sexually assaulted after going to a bar in Chicago’s River North neighborhood.

Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham said that while he understands Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision to fire Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, he “did not expect this from the mayor.”

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot abruptly fired the city’s top cop Monday, terminating Supt. Eddie Johnson over allegations he “intentionally misled” both her and the public. Lightfoot said Johnson “engaged in a series of actions intolerable for any leader in a position of trust,” citing evidence she had reviewed from an ongoing investigation by the inspector general into an incident in...

A New Jersey hospital mistakenly gave a kidney transplant to the wrong patient who happens to have the same name as the intended recipient.

Melanie Whelan is resigning from her position as chief executive officer of SoulCycle, effective Tuesday, the company told CNBC Make It. Both sides felt it was time for a leadership transition, according to a person briefed on the decision who asked not to be named because those discussions were private. A spokesperson for SoulCycle declined to comment on the impetus...

A widow is suing Maryland state officials after receiving the wrong remains for her husband who had donated his body to science.

Retired Chicago priest Father George Clements — famous for marching with Martin Luther King Jr. and being the first Catholic priest to adopt a child – passed away Monday, according to a family spokesperson.

A spokesperson for Starbucks says the suit is without merit.

In September, Amer Fakhoury closed his New Hampshire restaurant to take his first vacation in years to visit family in his native Lebanon — a country he hadn’t been to for nearly two decades. He hasn’t returned to the United States. Soon after his arrival in Lebanon, the 57-year-old American citizen was detained by authorities and remains jailed there. Doctors...

A Daytona, Ohio, man was charged this week with the 2011 murder of a 19-year-old man in Gary, Indiana, making it the seventh cold case that the FBI’s Gang Response Investigative Team has shut since the summer of 2018.

Five officers were injured Thursday when two Chicago police vehicles collided in a crash in the city’s East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.

 NBC 5’s Sky 5 was over a police chase Wednesday following a shooting in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood. 

A judge delayed a ruling Tuesday on whether or not a wrongful petition conviction can move forward after attorneys for Marni Yang claimed new evidence cleared the convicted murderer in the highly-publicized case.

Senior Trump administration official Mina Chang resigned from her job at the State Department two and a half hours after NBC News went to her spokesperson to ask about newly discovered false claims she had made about her charity work. NBC News had previously reported that Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability...

The Illinois State Police is taking a technological leap forward in an effort to speed up the processing of Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) cards and Concealed Carry License (CCL) applications.

If you’re tired of waiting for months to hear the status of your firearm owners application in Illinois, changes could soon be coming, according to NBC 5 Investigates’ Chris Coffey.