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A quiet night in a Hialeah neighborhood ended in tragedy after a man died when his car crashed into a home Saturday. Hialeah Police officials said the driver of a car carrying a man, woman and child lost control of the vehicle in the neighborhood near 5th Avenue and West 44th Place. The car hit a tree before slamming into…

NBC 6’s Victor Jorges has the latest on a car that crashed into a Hialeah home overnight.

A car crashed into a fallen tree in South Windsor, Connecticut Wednesday.

Dozens of cars, including two Iowa State Patrol cars, got stuck in a pileup on an icy interstate outside of Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday.

Here’s what science has to say about a twice-yearly ritual affecting nearly 2 billion people worldwide.

Here’s what science has to say about a twice-yearly ritual affecting nearly 2 billion people worldwide.

In the days after our chronically sleep-deprived country “springs forward,” costing us an hour of rest, disoriented Americans face a slightly greater risk of heart attack and stroke. There are more car crashes. Workplace accidents increase, too. For decades, most of the United States has observed daylight saving time, dutifully changing the clocks twice a year, NBC News reports. But...

The experts at Consumer Reports were once teenagers themselves, and they have some advice on how to go about buying your teen that first car.

The Florida Legislature approved a measure that would make it permanent, but such a move would have to get the approval of Congress before becoming official.

It used to be the stuff of stoner comedies and “Just Say No” campaigns. Today, marijuana is becoming mainstream as voters across the country approve ballot questions for legalization or medical use. In response, state governments are testing ways to ensure that the integration of this once-illicit substance into everyday life doesn’t create new public health risks. These efforts are...

A new study out Wednesday found that nearly twice as many children died from gun injuries in 2016 than from cancer, making guns the second-leading killer of children in the U.S., NBC News reported. Only car crashes killed more children than guns, and the U.S. gun fatality rate for children — which rose 28 percent between 2013 and 2016 —...

A powerful storm swept across Texas and the Midwest on Wednesday causing residents to evacuate their homes in boats. The storm pushed heavy rain, snow, and ice into both regions, resulting in hundreds of car crashes, several fatalities and killing four people at an interstate in Nebraska.

New York City filed a $500 million lawsuit Tuesday against prescription opioid manufacturers and distributors, seeking to hold them accountable for their alleged part in the city’s opioid epidemic.

An indictment in October was the first by a nationwide group of federal law enforcement officials that, armed with new access to a broader array of prescription drug databases, Medicaid and Medicare figures, coroners’ records and other numbers compiled by the Justice Department, aims to stop fraudulent doctors faster than before. The department is providing a trove of data to...

Florida, with some of the nation’s deadliest roads, is one of the last states to not fully ban texting while driving, but the Legislature will soon consider a bill that would – although studies conflict over whether such bans have any effect.

U.S. deaths from drug overdoses skyrocketed 21 percent last year, and for the second straight year dragged down how long Americans are expected to live. The government figures released Thursday put drug deaths at 63,600, up from about 52,000 in 2015. For the first time, the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins played a bigger role in the...

Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies return to prime-time television this weekend – but not by choice.

Loved ones are mourning a 13-year-old New Jersey boy who died from a mix of heroin and fentanyl.

It may be reprehensible and morally outrageous, but legal experts say a group of Florida teens had no obligation to rescue a drowning disabled man who they instead mocked, laughed at and recorded on a video that was later posted online. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a 2012 legal argument, summarized that across the U.S. there’s no general duty...

Montgomery County, Ohio, has become America’s overdose capital, NBC News reported. “We’re on a pace to have 800 people died this year due to overdose in our county, Sheriff Phil Plummer said. “Per capita, we’re no. 1 in the nation in overdose deaths.” According to data from the Mongomery County coroner, 365 people have died of drug overdoses from January...