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The 15-year-old boy who police say carried out the rampage in Raleigh, North Carolina, that left five dead and two others injured was identified as the younger brother of one of the casualties, according to a report. Austin Thompson was behind the deadly shooting spree in east Raleigh that began around 5 p.m. Thursday, local station WRAL reported, citing anonymous sources. The 15-year-old’s brother, James Roger Thompson, a junior at Knightdale High School, was identified earlier as the youngest of the five deceased victims.

SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A 17-year-old girl says she was injured during a brawl at the Kenwood Towne Centre Wednesday night. Cellphone video shows the teenager being held on the floor of Victoria Secret's Pink store by one girl while another kicks her in the head at least three times. The attacker then pulls her hair and repeatedly punches the 17-year-old. The attack continued until a Hamilton County sheriff's deputy broke up the fight. The victim showed WLWT her injuries. She had a large welt on the left side of her head. "I was getting jumped, and she kicked me...

Texting teenagers who stay ‘on call’ all night pay the price in lost sleep Brookline 10th-grader Ashley Olafsson sleeps with her cellphone under her pillow so she doesn’t miss “emergency’’ texts — “like if a friend broke up with her boyfriend.’’ Stephanie Kimball of Waltham, 14, is also available for urgent overnight correspondence, such as, “Hey, seeing if you’re awake.’’ Dedham ninth-grader Courtney Johnson gets as many as 100 texts while in bed. “I just don’t feel like myself if I don’t have my phone near me or I’m not on it,’’ she said. Sure, all that middle-of-the-night communication leaves...

Fox59 2:56 p.m. EDT, August 9, 2010 Bloomington, Ind. — The Monroe County Sheriff's Department is investigating a pitbull attack that left a 7-year-old boy with dozen of stitches to his face and several broken teeth. The attack happened in a backyard at the home on Woodbine Drive southwest of Bloomington Thursday afternoon. "They were having a birthday party and the boys were out there and it jumped up and bit him," said an unidentified man who answered only brief questions after answering a knock at his door.

A 5-year-old boy was mauled by a pitbull Thursday after climbing into a dog pen with the pitbull and its puppies. The boy had six cuts to his cheek and nose. The pitbull also ripped out two of his teeth and chipped a third tooth. The dog’s owner was ticketed for having a vicious animal, police Cpl. Eric Dearcorn said.

Four teenagers were killed early Thursday morning when the stolen SUV they were in and a train collided. It happened in Baytown at Archer Road and Fleming around 3:30 a.m. According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, six teenagers were in the stolen Jeep when the driver apparently did not see a Union Pacific train that had apparently been stalled on the tracks for some time. The SUV slammed into the tanker car at a high rate of speed and went under it into a ditch. Four people in the backseat, three girls and one boy ages 12 to 15,...