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Damian (left) and Chris Amaya-Pineda. Police are searching for the driver who allegedly struck a car carrying four relatives in Los Angeles, killing a teenager and leaving a toddler on life support before speeding away from the scene, multiple news outlets report. On Jan. 9 around 8 a.m., Chris Amaya-Pineda, 13, and his family were on their way to their grandmother’s house when the driver of a Mercedes ran a red light and hit the SUV, sending it into a fence and a parked car,KTLA reports....

Tyre Sampson.Photo: Facebook New details have been released about the investigation into the death of a 14-year-old boy whofell from an amusement park ridein Florida last week. Missouri teenTyre Sampsonwas visiting ICON Park in Orlando on Thursday when he boarded the Orlando FreeFall ride, a 430-foot drop tower, around 11 p.m. The report went on to note that Sampson’s “harness was still in a down and locked position when the ride stopped....

Photo: Jordyn’s Cause Funding Research and Recovery/FacebookDoctors are searching for answers after a Missouri teen returned from a cruise with a mysterious illnessthat left her blindand without a sense of taste or smell.In July 2017,Jordyn Walkerhad fun on a cruise with her family. But when they returned, she started experiencing stomach pain and bloody stools.“It just went haywire from there,”Walker, 15, told WDAF. “Everything started swelling.”She went to doctors in North Carolina, buttheir tests were inconclusiveand they believed it was just a sinus infection....

Asian elephant herd.Photo: CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock More than 150,000 people have been evacuated in southwest China’s Yunnan province to clear a path for a pack of14 escaped Asian elephants. Wan Yong, who oversees an organization that was tasked with returning the wild animals to the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture nature reserve,told reporterson Monday that in addition to the evacuations, 25,000 police and staff have been employed to make sure the elephants stay on track, according to local news outlet Xinhua....

Twins.Photo:Getty Getty A school district in Pennsylvania just gota massive haul of multiples. Next week, 17 sets of twins will be starting theirfirst day of kindergartenclasses in the Colonial School District. With seven pairs of twins heading to Ridge Park Elementary School, six sets of twins enrolled at Whitemarsh Elementary School and four pairs of twins beginning at Plymouth Elementary, their teachers will be seeing a lot more than double (and might appreciate a large shipment of name tags!...

Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage; Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage 01of 17Busy Philipps & Colin HanksBusy Philipps/InstagramThe actors dated in college when they were both students at Loyola Marymount University in the ‘90sand have since become friends.“He was my college boyfriend!” Philipps said onLive with Kelly. “We met when I was 18 and Colin was 19… We are very very close friends now — his wife and I are tight, he and my husband hang out....

Troy Yoda.Photo: GoFundMe A California family is in mourning after officials say their 19-year-old son fatally crashed his car on a local freeway. Troy Matthew Yoda was identified as the victim in Sunday’s single-vehicle crash,according to a statementfrom the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Coroner’s Division. The coroner said California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers responded to the incident on the southbound Interstate 15 and Alvord Mountain Road in Harvard just after 7 a....

Photo: Agencia EL UNIVERSAL/Salvador Corona/EELG via AP A roller coaster ride took a fatal turn at an amusement park in Mexico City this weekend. Two people are dead and two are seriously injured after the last car on the Quimera roller coaster at the La Feria de Chapultepec amusement park became detached from the rest of the train and fell more than 30 feet, hitting a steel support beam on the way down, theOC Registerreportedon Sunday....

A 2019 Tesla Model S.Photo: David Zalubowski/AP/Shutterstock Two men died after their Tesla crashed into a tree and caught fire — and the car may have been on autopilot, authorities told multiple outlets. The fatal incident unfolded on Saturday evening around 11:25 p.m. in the Carlton Woods subdivision of Spring, according to CBS affiliateKHOU. Harris County Pct. 4 Constable Mark Herman told the local outlet that a 2019 Tesla Model S was driving at a high rate of speed with two men, ages 59 and 69, inside when it came to a slight curve on the roadway....

Photo: KTRK A freeway shooting during evening rush hour Thursday in Houston, Texas, left two men dead with a “high probability the murders are drug-related,” Houston’s police chief said Friday. Multiple media reports carried accounts of the incident, as authorities said the manhunt for the suspect continued into Friday afternoon. Officers at the scene of the shooting.KTRK • Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?Click hereto get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter....

Emily Hackett-Fiske and Rep. Alyssa Black. Both lost a child to suicide and now they are fighting for laws to make gun owner responsible if their weapon is not secured.Photo:Angela King Angela King The nightmare that has consumed Emily ­Hackett-Fiske’s life started with a phone call. She and her husband, Jason, a police officer, were spending time in New Hampshire, two and a half hours from their home in Williston, Vt....

Two pilots are lucky to be alive after their plane crashed along the coast in Western Australia. “Both have received medical attention, have been released from hospital and are now recuperating,” continued Coulson’s statement, which was released Tuesday. “They were deeply shaken to have something like this happen while fighting for the community and are grateful they were able to walk away from the accident.” Coulson added that he is “grateful” for the support being shown to his team members and the pilots involved....

Adriana and Mariel Gil.Photo: gofundme A Washington man with extreme religious beliefs and his two teenage daughters were found dead inside his apartment, leaving their mother to pick up the pieces and find out what led to their mysterious deaths. On Saturday, Dec. 11, at about 10:48 a.m., police in Renton, responding to a call from the owner of a rental property who had inspected his unit, discovered the dead bodies of three people, later identified as sisters Adriana Gil, 17, and Mariel Gil, 16, and their father, Manuel Gil, 33, police say....