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The story of how two Elgin police officers helped a young girl who they discovered was living alone and out of food while attending high school is sweeping social media. A video that was posted by the Elgin Police Department earlier this month has been watched more than 4.1 million times and shared by thousands. It recaps the story of…

Police in south suburban Blue Island are warning residents after “brazen thieves” stole from an unsuspecting motorist at an area gas station. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.
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Police in south suburban Blue Island are warning residents after “brazen thieves” stole from an unsuspecting motorist at an area gas station.

Blue Island police released video showing a theft an area gas station. Now, they’re warning residents to be alert.

One person sustained minor injuries after a Carnival cruise ship crashed into another and damaged the dining area, the cruiseline said.

Hawthorne police arrested a man suspected of setting a police car on fire in front of the station in an act caught on camera, the department announced Thursday. Officers realized an unoccupied patrol vehicle parked in front of the police department had been engulfed in flames at about 12:15 a.m. Surveillance footage taken of the incident depicts a man dousing…

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released video Friday of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting a suspected kidnapper on the Northwest Side.

Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability has released new video of the deadly police-involved shooting of a kidnapping suspect. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports. 

Two former aides at Glenview nursing home pled guilty to separate charges on Monday stemming from a SnapChat video that revealed an aide taunted an elderly woman with dementia.

A family has filed a lawsuit against a Glenview nursing home after a video posted to Snapchat revealed that an aide taunted one of their loved ones who has dementia.

Two former aides at a Glenview nursing home pleaded guilty on Monday stemming from a SnapChat video that showed one of the aides taunting an elderly woman. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando explains. 

A Hamden Public Schools employee has resigned after she allegedly was caught on camera using racial slurs at a supermarket in East Haven on Friday.

A Kentucky elementary school teacher has been removed from her school and faces charges of assault after she was seen on video dragging a student with autism down a hallway, NBC News reported. In the minute-long video, shared Sunday on Facebook by the child’s mother, Angel Nelson, the female teacher pulls the boy by his wrists down the hall in...

An 11-month-old baby was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Russia Tuesday. The baby survived a day and a half in sub-freezing temperatures and is reportedly in stable condition. At least 28 people were killed when a gas line exploded underneath the building. The baby’s parents also survived the collapse.

In a video shared widely on social media, a man surprises his sister with a new car on Christmas.

Kansas City Royals pitcher Brady Singer gave his parents the surprise Christmas gift of a lifetime Tuesday. The heartwarming video has since been shared thousands of times on social media.

A video caught on a drone shows a shark just within feet from a paddleboarder in Nauset Beach, off Cape Cod, in July.

A previously withheld video has been released showing the near-constant heckling of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during a moderated talk about the economy at UCLA.

YouTube says it’s hiring more people to help curb videos that violate its policies. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says “some bad actors are exploiting” the Google-owned service to “mislead, manipulate, harass or even harm.” She says Google will have more than 10,000 workers address the problem by next year, though her blog post Monday doesn’t say how many the company...

Police in Ontario were investigating what appears to be a case of animal abuse on Saturday.