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The Rutledge family of Simsbury, Conn., decided to make a sign for their front yard to thank essential workers during the pandemic – then the requests from neighbors started rolling in. The family of five has now made almost 1,000 signs and raised $11,000 in donations to help make PPE for nearby medical facilities.

Families in the Northwest D.C. area are asking neighbors to participate in a scavenger hunt for teddy bears, all while keeping a social distance. News4’s Tommy McFly reports.

The reward for information leading to a 5-year-old New Jersey girl climbed to $35,000 Friday as a search that involved more than one hundred local and federal officers failed to turn up the missing child.

The grandmother of a 5-year-old girl now missing for the last 72 hours from a park in Bridgeton, New Jersey, pleaded for the public’s help Thursday.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a young girl who was taken while visiting a South Jersey park.

A family of nine in Prince William County, Virginia, says they are overwhelmed by an outpouring of support after a fire forced them out of their home.

Connecticut State Police have issued an AMBER Alert for a missing 1-year-old baby girl after responding to a home in Ansonia, Connecticut, Monday night and finding the baby’s mother dead and no sign of the child, according to police.

Days after hundreds of people mourned five children killed in a car crash in Bowie, Maryland, a man who was a passenger in the car has also died.

A mother, a father and their four sons were found wounded in a home in San Diego’s Paradise Hills community Saturday morning in an apparent case of murder-suicide, investigators confirmed. Five of the family members died.

“The Casagrandes,” Nickelodeon’s new original animated series that centers around an 11-year-old girl trying to survive a big city, is one of the first cartoons in the U.S. to feature a multigenerational Mexican American family. The long-awaited spin-off from the network’s popular animation series, “The Loud House,” premiered Monday and comes as more networks are taking chances on Latino-themed shows....

A Cuban man who legally sought asylum died by apparent suicide while being detained at an immigration jail in Louisiana, authorities said Wednesday.

A Maryland woman pleaded guilty to manslaughter Friday in connection with a car crash that killed five children — including her two daughters — and a 23-year-old man earlier this year.

A Northern Virginia man arrested this week on gun charges is a neo-Nazi who has bragged about committing racially motivated violence, authorities said Friday.

A report of a suicidal man led to the discovery of 50 guns, eight inert grenades, pipe bomb materials, swords and more than two thousand rounds of ammunition inside a Philadelphia home Wednesday, according to police.

A Virginia fire department remains hopeful one of their firefighters and his friend and fellow firefighter will be found after not returning from a fishing trip.

The U.S. Coast Guard called off its search for two firefighters who didn’t return from a fishing trip, but the department where one of those men worked remains hopeful. Drew Wilder spoke the assistant fire chief.

U.S. Coast Guard officials say they plan to suspend the search for two missing firefighters who disappeared after leaving a Florida port on a fishing trip last week.

The U.S. Coast Guard and a number of other law enforcement agencies are in a “race against time” to find two missing firefighters — including one from Fairfax County, Virginia — as the search for the men stretches into a sixth day.

It’s been five days since two firefighters, including one from Fairfax County, were last seen leaving for a fishing trip in Florida. The wife of Firefighter Brian McCluney spoke on Tuesday. 

A massive search continues in Florida for two firefighters, one of them from Fairfax County, Virginia, who never returned from a fishing trip on Friday.