A 4-year-old Ohio boy pictured in a photo sitting in a vehicle behind his slumped-over grandmother and her friend, who were later revived with a heroin overdose antidote, is heading to a new home, NBC News reported.
Police in East Liverpool, Ohio, shared the photo in a recent Facebook post to graphically illustrate the dangers of "the poison known as heroin."
The 4-year-old is going to live with his great-aunt and great-uncle in South Carolina, Columbiana County Court Administrator Dane Walton confirmed Tuesday.
His grandmother, 50-year-old Rhonda Pasek, is in jail awaiting trial on charges of endangering a child and public intoxication, Walton said. Pasek was granted custody of the boy just six weeks before she and 47-year-old James Lee Acord were arrested last week by police in East Liverpool.
An arrest has been made in the arson attack at a Fort Pierce mosque, according to NBC affiliate WPTV in West Palm Beach.
The report didn't name a suspect or say what the charges were. According to WPTV sources, the suspect was being brought to the sheriff's office for questioning.
Investigators were at the suspect's home in Port St. Lucie. The report said investigators are also checking his workplace and the site where he was arrested, which was in Fort Pierce.
The St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office said they will hold a news conference at 6 p.m. to discuss a "major development" in the case.
No one was injured in the fire, which was started late Sunday at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce and burned for more than five hours before it was extinguished Monday.
A surveillance video from the mosque showed a man on a motorcycle approach the building with a bottle of liquid and some papers, then leave when there was a flash.
The fire was started on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The mosque had been attended by Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen.
Check back with NBC6.com for updates on this developing story.
Emails released by hackers reveal that former Secretary of State Colin Powell called Donald Trump a "national disgrace" and "international pariah," NBC News reported.
Powell, a retired 4-star general and a Republican, confirmed the authenticity of the emails to NBC News.
"The hackers have a lot more," he added.
There was no immediate response from the Trump campaign to the emails.
In another leaked email, Powell also expressed frustration about his name being linked to Clinton's email issues, writing: "I have told Hilleary's [sic] minions repeatedly that they are making a mistake trying to drag me in, yet they still try."
The contents of the emails were first reported by Buzzfeed News. It said the messages had been obtained by the website DCLeaks.com which is rumored to have ties to Russian intelligence services.
One day after the NCAA voted to move championship tournaments and other games from the state of North Carolina over a controversial law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people, the Atlantic Coast Conference has followed suit.
The ACC Council of Presidents voted Wednesday to relocate all of the league's tournaments and championship games from the state for the 2016-17 year, citing HB2's inconsistency with the ACC "values of equality, diversity, inclusion and non-discrimination."
"Every one of our 15 universities is strongly committed to these values and therefore, we will continue to host ACC Championships at campus sites."
Both Florida State University and the University of Miami are ACC member schools.
The law requires transgender people to use restrooms at schools and government buildings corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates, and not the one they identify with. It also excludes gender identity and sexual orientation from local and statewide antidiscrimination protections. HB2 was signed into law earlier this year by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who has defended it as a commonsense safety and security measure.
“Today’s decision is one of principle, and while this decision is the right one, we recognize there will be individuals and communities that are supportive of our values as well as our championship sites that will be negatively affected,” said ACC commissioner John Swofford. “Hopefully, there will be opportunities beyond 2016-17 for North Carolina neutral sites to be awarded championships.”
The ACC was scheduled to hold 14 of its 21 championship events in North Carolina this academic year, with 10 of those at neutral sites and the other four on the campuses of Wake Forest (field hockey), Duke (fencing), North Carolina (softball) and N.C. State (wrestling).
The first of those neutral-site events, which are pre-determined championship locations regardless of the teams competing, was men's and women's cross country that was set for Oct. 28 in Cary.
This action by the ACC is the latest in a steady stream of public and business backlash against the law.
The NBA moved its 2017 All-Star Game to New Orleans instead of hosting it in Charlotte as originally scheduled because of the law. Duke's men's basketball schedule had to be reconfigured when Albany backed out due to that state's travel ban, and the Vermont women's basketball team has canceled a December trip to play North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Entertainers like Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Ringo Starr have canceled plans to play in North Carolina. And PayPal reversed plans to open a 400-employee operation center in Charlotte.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The Obama administration is planning to increase the number of refugees it will allow into the U.S. in 2017 to at least 110,000, NBC News reported.
It's a 30 percent increase over the current fiscal year and a more than 57-percent jump since 2015. The increase "is consistent with our belief that all countries should do more to help the world's most vulnerable people," a State Department official told NBC News.
Of the 110,000 refugees the U.S. intends to admit, at least 40,000 are from the Near East and South Asia, a White House senior administration official said. Most have been trying to flee the Syrian civil war.
The administration's move comes as many GOP lawmakers and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump warn that Islamic terrorists could be hiding among the refugees.
A violent day on the streets of Philadelphia left five people dead, including the cousin of rapper Meek Mill, in numerous shootings and stabbings over the span of about 15 hours on Tuesday.
The bloodshed began in West Philadelphia just after 9 a.m., when police say someone shot a 25-year-old man in his side, chest, buttocks and shoulder at 52nd Street and Wyalusing Avenue. Police took the victim to Presbyterian Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
The bloodshed only worsened from there.
A little more than three hours later, about 12:30 p.m. shots rang out on Thayer Street near Kensington Avenue, in Kensington, leaving a pregnant woman with gunshot wounds to her stomach and head, a man with gunshot wounds to his stomach and head and another man with a gunshot wound to his groin, according to police. All three victims in that shooting were taken to Temple University Hospital in critical condition.
About the same time, officers performing a wellness check at a home on the 12000 block of Elmore Road in Northeast Philadelphia made a gruesome discovery: a 68-year-old woman, later identified as Virginia McLaughlin, along with Lawrence Carty, 60, both dead of stab wounds. Police said McLaughlin lived at the home on Elmore Road and Carty lived on the 3500 block of Grant Avenue, also in the Northeast.
Police said they believe Carty died of self-inflicted wounds to his arms, but did not say whether authorities have ruled the case a murder-suicide. They said they believe an argument motivated the violence.
Less than five hours later, a shooting in Philadelphia's Fairhill neighborhood left a 32-year-old man dead, police said. Gunfire erupted on Howard Street near Cambria about 5:20 p.m., leaving the man dead of several gunshot wounds to his torso.
A Verizon worker on the block at the time scooped up the victim and drove him to Episcopal Hospital in his work van, according to police, and was being interviewed by detectives after the shooting. Investigators said they believe the shooting was drug-related, and no arrests had been made as of Wednesday morning.
About two hours after that, just after 7:30 p.m., a man who would have turned 25 on Wednesday stumbled into the alley behind his Southwest Philadelphia home and died after police say someone shot him several times. Police said they believe the man was standing on his back steps between the 5800 blocks of Cobbs Creek Parkway and Fernwood Street when someone shot him, then fell down the steps and died. Several cameras in the area captured the gunman fleeing the scene, police said.
About an hour later, about 10 minutes before 9 p.m. in West Philadelphia, a 24-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the back on Frazier Street near Media, in the Carroll Park neighborhood. Police said that victim was hospitalized in stable condition and officers arrested the suspected shooter.
The violence didn't end there. Less than a half-hour after that, about 9:10 p.m., a 27-year-old man showed up at Albert Einstein Medical Center with gunshot wounds to his back, police said. The man told them someone shot him on Opal Street near 66th Avenue. No arrests were reported, and the man was in stable condition.
Less than an hour later and across the city in South Philadelphia, 21-year-old Angelo Colon died after police say someone shot him in the head outside a take-out restaurant at 18th Street and Snyder Avenue. Colon, police said, is the cousin of Philadelphia-born rapper Meek Mill, who took to Instagram to express his grief over the young man's death.
"Watching my family die to these Philly streets ... My mission is to save my family from these streets and change the mindframe of all my lil cousins growing up in it! #RIPLO," Mill wrote in an Instagram post about the killing.
A second man, age 27, also suffered two gunshot wounds in that shooting but survived and went to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for treatment. Police said the suspected shooter took off in a dark sedan and that cameras in the area may help them solve the case.
Back in Kensington, a retaliatory shooting on Lee Street left two people wounded shortly after 11 p.m., according to police. Chief Inspector Scott Small said investigators believe that shooting was payback for an earlier homicide in the neighborhood. It was unclear what homicide to which the shooting was connected.
Across the city again, in South Phladelphia's Point Breeze neighborhood, a man suffered a gunshot wound on Latona Street near 16th about 11:30 p.m. No arrests were reported in that shooting.
Police reported only one arrest, in the West Philadelphia shooting on Frazier Street, among the shootings.
Philadelphia's homicide rate, according to police statistics, is currently up 11 percent year over year compared with 2015. As of Tuesday night, the city has recorded 203 homicides so far in 2016, compared with 181 as of the same date last year. The jump is even larger compared with 2014, when 176 homicides were recorded year-to-date, and 2013, when there were 172 homicides.
Compared with 2012's rate, however, the city is still recording fewer homicides. That year, among the most violent over the last five years, 253 people were killed in the city as of the same date, and 331 homicides were recorded by the year's end.
A man living at a Wyoming nursing home shot one person dead and wounded two more before killing himself as cops closed in Wednesday, NBC News reported.
Larry Rosenberg, 77, opened fire with a .22-caliber handgun at the Heritage Court Apartments in Cheyenne, where he lived, according to a Cheyenne Police Department spokesman.
The gunfire began around 11 a.m. at the sprawling facility, for reasons still unclear.
Rosenberg fled after shooting one person inside the the residence and the others in the parking lot, police said. The chase ended about three miles from the nursing home, when police caught up with the suspect.
Wal-Mart customers will be able to use a handheld device to summon an empty cart and have it whisked their way via "motorized transport unit," according to Wal-Mart's patent, granted last week. The customer's location is determined by optical sensors in the device which will receive information from smart LEDs in the store, NBC News reported.
The system's "central control circuit" will also track shopping cart idle times to see which ones are not being used and implement image sensors to make sure they're empty.
And the carts will even be able to return themselves.
Investigations into alleged hazing and maltreatment of recruits have found evidence of a toxic command climate at the Marines' training center at Parris Island, South Carolina, going back more than two years, according to Marine documents reviewed Wednesday by NBC News.
Detailed results of the investigations — one of them reviewing the alleged suicide of a new recruit in March — have been forwarded to prosecutors for "drafting of charges as warranted," according to one of the documents.
The Marine Corps said last week that the inquiries focus on three platoons of the Third Recruit Training Battalion. It said 20 training personnel had been "identified for possible military justice or administrative action," confirming a report by NBC News that the personnel — a mix of drill instructors and officers — were directly involved in hazing or had ignored evidence that it was going on.
New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the Union Leader, is breaking with a 100-year tradition of backing the Republican presidential nominee.
The Granite State paper has endorsed Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld.
In an editorial published online Wednesday, publisher Joseph W. McQuaid wrote that rather than picking between the "lesser of two evils," the Union Leader has chosen to endorse Johnson and Weld.
"In today’s dark times, they are a bright light of hope and reason," McQuaid wrote.
Of Trump, who is headed to New Hampshire Thursday, the paper denounced his candidacy, calling the businessman a "liar, a bully, a buffoon. He denigrates any individual or group that displeases him."
Though his most blistering attacks were reserved Trump, McQuaid hardly spared Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, calling her "a selfish, self-centered, sanctimonious prig."
The Union Leader is the latest conservative-leaning newspaper to break from tradition and refuse to endorse the Republican nominee.
The Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle have both announced their endorsement of the democratic ticket, backing Clinton and Kaine, while North Carolina's Winston-Salem Journal and Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch have recommended Johnson.
Donald Trump responded on Twitter to Colin Powell's leaked emails calling him a "national disgrace," dismissing the criticism.
"I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster. We can do much better!" Trump wrote on Twitter.
In one email, the former secretary of state called Trump a "national disgrace" and "international pariah" — adding that the GOP presidential contender was "in the process of destroying himself, no need for Dems to attack him."
The family of Sandra Bland, who was found dead in a Texas jail after a routine traffic stop last year, has reached a $1.9 million settlement with the Waller County Sheriff's Office, family attorney Cannon Lambert confirmed to NBC News.
The settlement also includes changes to jail procedures. The Waller County Sheriff's Office has agreed to install automated sensors to assure accurate and timely cell checks at the jail and staff an on-duty nurse around-the-clock, Lambert said.
Bland, a 28-year-old African-American woman from suburban Chicago, was found hanging in her jail cell in July 2015, days after she was arrested for failing to use her turn signal.
The situation escalated after Bland appeared to pull out her cellphone and record the stop. Trooper Brian Ecinia later said she was becoming "combative and uncooperative." Bland was taken to jail and booked on a third-degree felony charge.
Correct the Record, a well-funded super PAC Hillary Clinton's ally David Brock founded, is creating a WikiLeaks-style project to pay anonymous tipsters for scoops, which they're calling Trump Leaks, NBC News reported.
While the effort is focused on uncovering previously unreleased audio and video recordings, Brock is interested in just about anything on Trump — as long as it's new, unflattering and procured legally.
"We're chasing everything," Brock told NBC News. That could be internal documents about Trump's business empire, his tax returns or perhaps something more personal.
Posting a bounty for dirt on a political opponent is highly unusual in modern politics and seems to cross a new line in the rules of war. "We're going to extraordinary lengths because this is an extraordinary situation," Brock said.
Officials at Florida State University are advising all students that live on or near campus to sanitize their houses after an outbreak of a virus usually contracted by infants and toddlers.
Called hand, foot and mouth disease, the virus has struck several students who live on campus.
“We are aware of more than a dozen cases so far,” said Lesley Sacher, director of the FSU Health and Wellness Center in a university release.
Hand, foot and mouth disease is a “common viral illness” usually contracted by infants and children under the age of five, but can sometimes occur in adults. There is no treatment for the the virus, which can cause mouth sores, skin rashes and fever, according to the Center for Disease Control.
But, the CDC warns, adults can show no symptoms at all and still pass the virus on to others. University officials say the infection takes about five days to run its course.
It’s a highly contagious disease that can be transmitted from person to person via direct contact with unwashed hands, by coughing and sneezing, or contact with blister fluid or surfaces contaminated with feces, the CDC said.
FSU crews have been wiping down dorms with bleach and enacting "sanitation protocols" for public spaces on campus. The university has advised those who live in fraternity and sorority houses to do the same.
“The most important piece of advice is to wash your hands often with soap and water,” Sacher said.
FSU has reached out to businesses near campus – including restaurants and bars – and encouraged them to sanitize their buildings as well.
Two New Jersey high schools are also grappling with the disease. Kinnelon High School was forced to postone its girls and boys soccer games Thursday after a recent outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease, NJ.com reported. Last week, Pequannock High School had to reschedule its season-opening football game because of a hand, foot and mouth outbreak, according to The Associated Press.
The New Jersey school bus driver seen in dramatic video swerving into the wrong lane to get ahead of a slower-moving FedEx tractor-trailer and then nearly getting rammed by the larger vehicle has been fired.
Representatives for Jay's Bus Service, which serves schools in Ocean County, told NBC 4 New York the driver was fired Wednesday night as soon as the owner of the Lakewood-based company saw the video.
The video, captured Wednesday afternoon on Airport Road by Stephen O'Connor and posted to Facebook, shows the bus weave around the FedEx truck, going across the median and trying to pass the truck near a traffic light. The truck, though, veers left, also going across the yellow line, and appears to try to cut off the bus, forcing the bus all the way into the opposite lane of the road.
The yellow school bus speeds up again and cuts back into the right lane, ahead of the FedEx truck. No students were on the bus at the time the video was taken; it was either on its way to a school or another bus parking depot.
FedEx said it takes "safety very seriously" and is looking into the matter.
Police also said they are investigating.
O'Connor, whose Facebook video was viewed more than 165,000 times in 20 hours, told NBC 4 New York the situation could've been disastrous.
A 33-year-old Florida woman was arrested after authorities say she hid marijuana inside a child's lunchbox during a traffic stop.
Shortly before 9 p.m., Broward County Sheriff’s deputies pulled over Tasha Sims in Pompono Beach Wednesday because the registered owner of the car she was driving didn't have a valid license.
A deputy approached the car and saw a young girl sitting in the front seat without a seatbelt, according to the arrest report. The deputy said he smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car and asked Sims if she had anything illegal inside.
Sims admitted to hiding marijuana in the child's lunchbox because she knew her license was suspended and got scared when he pulled her over, the report said.
She was placed under arrest and charged with child neglect, possession of marijuana and driving with a suspended license.
Sims was booked into the Broward County jail and was being held on $1,000 bond Thursday, records showed. It was unknown if she's hired an attorney.
An inmate in Maryland left a work detail Wednesday and went to a bar 10 minutes away, according to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.
Andrew Willett, 28, left a Frederick County work release center about 6 a.m. Wednesday with another inmate and went to his job in Frederick, according to the sheriff’s office.
A coworker told an investigator he was supposed to drive Willett back to the work release center, but Willett said his mother was going to pick him up and take him back and that she was an authorized driver for him, which she isn’t, according to the sheriff’s office.
Willett's coworker also told the investigator Willett made many phone calls to a woman throughout the day and it sounded like they were arguing each time.
After Willett failed to return to the work release center by 7 p.m., the Frederick Police Department assisted the sheriff’s office in searching for him.
Just after midnight, police found Willett, in the Olde Town Tavern in downtown Frederick. He tried to run but was quickly taken into custody.
Willett faces a charge of escape, the sheriff’s office said.
A police officer fatally shot a 13-year-old boy he was trying to detain in Columbus, Ohio, following reports of an armed robbery, NBC News reported, citing officials.
Authorities identified the child as Tyree King. The Columbus Division of Police said in a statement that King "pulled a gun from his waistband" when officers attempted to take him and another male into custody Wednesday night. King was shot "multiple times."
Following the shooting, police said investigators recovered a BB gun with an attached laser sight from the scene, Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said at news conference Thursday morning. She showed a replica image of that BB gun.
The officer who fired the shots was later identified as Brian Mason, a nine-year veteran of the force who just recently transferred to the zone where the incident happened. He was being placed on administrative leave for about a week.
The incident comes almost two years after 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot dead by a police officer in Cleveland, Ohio.
A man with a cleaver attacked NYPD officers outside Penn Station, striking one of them in the face before he was shot by police, law enforcement sources say.
The officers were attacked near the busy Midtown commuter hub at the height of the evening rush hour.
At least one officer was hit by the cleaver and was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, sources said. Four other officers were taken to the hospital to be evaluated for trauma.
The suspect, who was grazed by a bullet, was taken to a local hospital as well.
Two law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Akram Joudah of Queens, who's been arrested 15 times in the past.
Police have swarmed the area, and West 32nd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues was shut down to vehicular traffic.
The FBI is sending agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force to the scene as a precaution, an official said.
Two years ago, a hatchet-wielding man ambushed a group of NYPD officers in Jamaica, Queens, gashing a rookie cop in the head with the 18-inch ax. Two other officers shot and killed the suspect, Zale Thompson, on the street.
Thompson was a self-radicalized "lone wolf terrorist," police officials said after the attack.
A motive in Thursday's attack wasn't clear.
