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Investigators said she was unresponsive when police and paramedics arrived but was revived with a dose of naloxone
A motive wasn’t immediately known and the children’s ages weren’t immediately available
Police said Tiah Bradley stabbed her brother in the neck and torso with a switch blade
The man was being transported to a psychiatric unit for evaluation when he jumped out of the ambulance
Dr. Henry Bello warned his colleagues when he was forced out in 2015 that he would return someday to kill them
Xavier Willard, 5, was going to music class with his mom when he ran off and jumped in the river
Little Rock police chief said that the incident was not terror related
The gunman was identified by law enforcement officials as Dr. Henry Bello, a family medicine physician at the hospital
Kentucky is the second state to adopt the classification for its first responders
The street pill disguised as the painkiller Percocet could be linked to the deaths of as many as four people
Christopher Barlow, 20, was armed with a handgun and double-edged knife when he was arrested
Responders arrived after the woman’s boyfriend called 911 and the baby was born in the driveway
Children between the ages of six and 10 were in the pool at the time of the incident
Ashley Neece was doing yard work with Valerie Pettit when she heard the lawn mower stop abruptly
EMTs arrived and performed CPR, but were unsuccessful
Scrivani Norman Louis was arrested after police deployed spike strips to stop the ambulance
Tracy Thompson is facing multiple charges, including aggravated assault and driving under the influence of a controlled substance
The deputy collapsed while supervising a work detail; six of the inmates immediately started to render aid
The girl, who was unsure of her address, called 911 and told dispatchers that her mother was having trouble breathing
M.L. Nijalingappa made way for the ambulance before he let President Pranab Mukherjee pass through
The network will modernize communications with technologies that will help save lives
NHS England said three of the injured remain in critical care
Police said a man who was driving the car has been arrested and taken to a hospital as a precaution
The Mexican woman was locked and abandoned in the ambulance by human smugglers
Police said the man, who was involved in a car crash, had overdosed; he was arrested and charged with third-degree assault
A neighbor called 911 and she and others cared for the children as paramedics arrived to revive the couple
The man told dispatchers he needed a ride, because his grandmother suffered a stroke in the Hooters parking lot
The attack left her 1-year-old granddaughter dead and critically injured her daughter and 5-year-old granddaughter
British media reported that more than one person had been killed in the rampage
Sophina keeps a list of her first responder friends and, with her mother’s help, prays for them at bedtime
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