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Lesley Vogel described Panettiere’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson as someone the family had been “trying to get rid of for quite some time.”

Firefighters battling a blaze at a Bedford County, Virginia, middle school encountered more than just smoke.

Hayden Panettiere’s boyfriend and his brother were at the South Carolina apartment complex where the ‘Heroes’ actor went into cardiac arrest and died Sunday.

Philadelphia police asked for the public’s help to find a man wanted for assault who donned a Chucky-style horror mask and “made threatening comments” while chasing a woman near City Hall, officials said Tuesday.

MIAMI — A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law is set to be executed Tuesday, continuing the state’s aggressive use of the death penalty in Republican Gov.

A judge ordered the release of a Kentucky woman, Melissa Farris, who was accused of vandalism at the World War II Memorial in Washington, court records showed.

The ex-wife of Chad Hickman, who issuspected of gunning down five people in rural Michigan, said he would have been in prison if local authorities had not given him a plea deal she said was far too lenient.

Panettiere was a prolific actor who rose to fame as a star on NBC’s “Heroes” and scored a crossover TV-music hit with the series “Nashville.”

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A man charged with arranging the fatal ambush of a Microsoft design manager is headed to trial Monday in Florida, more than four years after the victim was repeatedly shot outside his vehicle while his 2-year-old child was strapped in a car seat.

The girl’s grandfather told NBC News she managed to call 911 and describe the gunman and his vehicle despite having been shot.