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A drone attack late Sunday evening that struck a military base in eastern Syria, where U.S. troops are stationed, left at least six allied Kurdish soldiers dead, officials said. The attack hit a training ground at al-Omar base in Syria’s eastern province of Deir el-Zour, the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement Monday. According to the statement, the drone attack struck an area where the forces' commando units were being trained. No U.S. troops were killed or injured in the attack, they said. The strike was the first significant attack in Syria or Iraq since the...

Six people were confirmed dead in a series of highway collisions Monday in rural Illinois that were blamed on a blinding dust storm, authorities said. More than 30 people, ages 2 to 80, were hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening, Illinois State Police Maj. Ryan Starrick said at an early evening news conference.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – At least four people are dead, including the shooter, following an “active shooter” situation at a school in Green Hills. The Nashville Fire Department said the incident happened at Covenant School located at 33 Burton Hills Boulevard. Metro police reported that officers engaged the shooter, who is dead. A spokesperson with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt confirmed to News 2’s Kendall Ashman that three children were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, but have died from their injuries. Hospital officials also said two adults were transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and have...

Originally from Associated Press, so link only..Six people are dead and three injured.

A few minutes ago SWAT found out that the PTSD gunman who killed four in Souderton and Lansdale, Pa was not in home in Souderton, PA. Escaped. Whereabouts of gunman unknown, more deaths expected. New crime scene in Pennsburg, Pa with police investigating.....unknown.

DELAVAN, WIS. -- A shooting inside a home left six people dead, and a child was found in a nearby vehicle with a gunshot to the chest, the Delavan police chief said Sunday. Police were responding to a report of shots fired Saturday night in this southern Wisconsin city, Chief Tim O'Neill said. The child, a 2-year-old girl, was taken to a hospital in Rockford, Ill., on Saturday night, where she was in critical condition, hospital officials said. Rockford Memorial hospital officials said the child was then transferred by helicopter to University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. Her condition there...

<p>Fire investigators in Yazoo City sift through debris at the scene of a deadly early morning house fire.</p> <p>YAZOO CITY — Almost a year after six children left alone died in a mobile home fire in Tchula, the deadly scenario played out again early Monday morning. Five children died in a house fire here after being left by themselves. One child was rescued.Police say they believe the children's mothers, two sisters, were across town at a night spot.</p>