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It has been a nervous and emotional 24 hours for people who live near where Monday night’s shooting in New Haven took place.

Here’s 10 flags you might see flying at the WorldPride Parade in New York City this Sunday, with a little background on each courtesy of Pride.com.

Thousands of people were expected to come together for an emotional Friday prayer service led by the imam of one of the two New Zealand mosques where 50 worshippers were killed in a white supremacist attack. Two more of the victims were being buried Thursday as authorities identify and release more of the dead.

The family of Tiyaniah Hopkins, one of the victims in the brutal, execution-style murder of two men and two women in a Southwest Philadelphia basement Monday, said Hopkins went to hang out with the other victims that night.

In solidarity with the victims of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue attack, major Jewish organizations have invited people of all faiths to “show up for Shabbat” this weekend. The American Jewish Committee started the Show Up For Shabbat campaign to increase attendance at Friday night and Saturday religious services as a show of support for Pittsburgh’s Jewish community after...

Boston Police Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross was named the city’s first black police commissioner on Monday, replacing William Evans, who is leaving for a new job heading up the Boston College police force.

Two black men were arrested Thursday after Starbucks employees called police to say the men were trespassing. The arrest, which was captured on video and posted online, prompted accusations of racism on social media.

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus” won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday. He was 86. Forman died about 2 a.m. Saturday at Danbury Hospital, near his home in Warren, Connecticut, according to a statement released by the former director’s agent, Dennis Aspland. Aspland said Forman’s...

Boston’s popular St. Patrick’s Day parade is all about veterans — but not all who’ve served in uniform will be allowed to march this weekend. Parade organizers say new leadership of the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which runs the annual event, marks the beginning of a new era of inclusion. The council drew furor nationwide for banning gay...

Even after two terror attacks and a driver’s deadly rampage through Times Square, New York City is on track to smash its modern-era low for homicides in a year.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says a witnesses account matches that of an officer who shot a dirt bike rider during a traffic stop after that man brandished a gun.

An armed man pulled over after riding a dirt bike in North Philadelphia was shot and killed by a police officer during a confrontation Thursday evening, officials said, with surveillance video showing the officer shot the man while he was running away.

Two people were killed in a shooting in South Boston Friday night. The suspected shooter has been hospitalized after being shot by police.

Chrissy Metz and Milo Ventimiglia break down Thursday’s episode, which touches on everything from the emotional fallout of Jack and Rebecca losing one of the triplets to Kate deciding it’s time to take a break from her relationship with Toby.

The Philadelphia police department took the viral video to a whole new level when it posted what amounts to a Frankenstein version of Internet memes.

Seventy-five potential jurors were questioned by a judge in Baltimore Circuit Court Monday as the first trial in the death of Freddie Gray got underway.

Video appears to show the officer trying to extort money from someone he stopped for an alleged traffic violation.