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Residents of Wakefield and Reading - 15 miles from downtown Boston - are urged to lock their doors and stay inside Eight 'armed and dangerous' men wearing tactical-style clothing fled into woodland early Saturday morning Two of them have been arrested, but the other six remain at large Police have confirmed members of the group posted videos to a YouTube account named 'Rise of the Moors' The group were seen in one clip waving a Moroccan flag, but insisted that they are not anti-US government

Nine in ‘heavily armed’ fringe group arrested after standoff in Massachusetts Nine people in a “heavily armed” group which “does not recognize our laws” were arrested early Saturday after a standoff with state police in Massachusetts which shut down I-95, according to reports. “We have several armed persons accounted for at this scene on Rt 95. They are refusing to comply with orders to provide their information and put down their weapons,” the Massachusetts State Police said on Twitter.

A 24-year-old homeless woman wrestled to free herself from an alligator after the animal attacked and tried to drag her underwater as she swam in Florida’s Lake Hernando early on Wednesday, PEOPLE confirms. Felicitie Gillette was swimming in the Citrus County lake around 1 a.m. when a 5- to 6-foot alligator grabbed her by her left arm and attempted to drag her underwater, according to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. She was able to fight off the alligator and called 911. “It came up out of nowhere and attacked,” Gillette said in a frantic 911...

A California personal injury lawyer is recovering from a severe beating suffered in New Orleans, and wondering why it happened. Bill Callaham of Sacramento said three strangers beat him unconscious without robbing him -- and he was wearing a Rolex watch and had a cellphone and hundreds of dollars in his pockets. "I don't know if they got interrupted. I don't know if they didn't care," he told The New Orleans Advocate (http://bit.ly/1Cjrv9B). "They apparently made no attempt even to take anything from me."