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Police say a Michigan woman was killed when an out-of-control vehicle slammed into her during a drag-racing event, but she was able to push her 2-year-old daughter to safety in the seconds before the crash.

Safaris draw many to Africa, but travelers can also hike, bike and cruise around the continent, tour its wine regions and explore coastal cities like Mombasa.

Hall of Famer Bill Walton was a two-time national champion at UCLA before winning two titles in the NBA.

Even newbies are clambering aboard at record levels, with a surge in younger passengers deciding weeklong trips at sea aren’t “only for the elderly.”

A 4-year-old boy drowned in a residential pool in New Jersey over the holiday weekend, authorities say. Cops were called to a home in North Brunswick around 7:45 p.m. Saturday for a report of a child found in the pool. When crews arrived, the child wasn’t breathing. They performed CPR on him, but he died at a hospital. It...

A man was killed after getting clipped by the side of a box truck, then hit again by an SUV driver while crossing a street in Brooklyn, according to police.

For the first time in generations, beachgoers were out on the sand in a New Jersey shore community on the Sunday morning before Memorial Day as a Christian religious group fights the state over its regular beach closures there during Sunday services.

A man was slashed in his face in a lower Manhattan attack, and police are looking into what may have led to the incident.

The prosecution and defense are expected to make their final pitch to jurors today. 

Bronx Zoo officials are searching for a few remaining peafowl who escaped yesterday. 

Peafowl went on their own holiday getaway from the Bronx Zoo. Romney Smith reports.

Former Billie Jean King Cup captain Kathy Rinaldi and current Davis Cup captain Bob Bryan will coach the U.S. tennis players at the Paris Olympics.