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Boy, 14, held over Facebook 'sex attack'

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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in Chicago in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was streamed on Facebook Live. The boy faces charges of aggravated criminal assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. He was not named because of his age.

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North Carolina won the NCAA basketball tournament against Gonzaga

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Uber driver shot while dropping off customer in North Carolina

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At least nine people died this morning in a train car blast between two subway stations in St. Petersburg, Russia, state news agencies said.

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4-year-old saves life of 5-year-old boy who fell off 15-foot cliff

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If it wasn't for a 14-year-old boy's quick thinking actions, one mother's son might not be here today.

Kristen's Hemlock's 5-year-old son Mason was hiking with two friends and his babysitter in Cope Park in Alaska on Wednesday when Mason's foot slipped and he fell 15 feet off a cliff into fast-moving water below.
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Riley, 14, who saw want happened, knew he had to act.

"He flew down and I was like 'Oh my God, that's a really far drop. He hit a rock really hard. He then fell into the water," Riley John told InsideEdition.com. "I really don't know what I was thinking. I reacted as fast I could."

Riley jumped into the freezing water to grab hold of Mason and when they reached a pool of still water he handed the child off to his friend Seth Gerrin. Seth then ran Mason to the paramedics.

"Mason doesn't know how to swim. He said he tried to swim and it didn't work," Hemlock told InsideEdition.com. "They saved his life. He wouldn't be here today if it weren't for Riley. He put his life on the line for Mason."

The boys disappeared before anyone got a chace to thank them, however.

That's when Hemlock wrote a Facebook post in a community group to try to find the heroes and Riley's grandmother responded.

Hemlock was able to meet Riley on Friday at a short ceremony Riley's high school had to honor his heroic acts.

"I was able to thank him and that gave me peace with situation," Hemlock said. ""I am incredibly grateful,"
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Miraculously Mason escaped the ordeal with a few minor scratches, but Riley's bravery will remain etched in Hemlock's mind forever.

"He's only 14 and not many people think like that. He didn't even think of his own safety," Hemlock said.
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14-Year-Old Saves Life of 5-Year-Old Boy Who Fell Off 15-Foot Cliff

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If it wasn't for a 14-year-old boy's quick thinking actions, one mother's son might not be here today. Kristen's Hemlock's 5-year-old son Mason was hiking with two friends and his babysitter in Cope Park in Alaska on Wednesday when Mason's foot slipped and he fell 15 feet off a cliff into fast-moving water below.

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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in Chicago in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was streamed on Facebook Live.

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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in Chicago in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was streamed on Facebook Live. The boy faces charges of aggravated criminal assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. He was not named because of his age.

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3 DEAD AFTER BOILER EXPLOSION IN ST. LOUIS

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Three people died and several others suffered serious injuries after a boiler exploded at a building in St. Louis, sending a piece of equipment flying into the air and through the roof of another building, fire officials said.

The boiler explosion at the Loy-Lange Box Co. left one person dead in that building, authorities said at a news conference this morning.

After the explosion, a piece of the boiler was tossed into the air and pierced the roof of a nearby building, the Faultless Healthcare Linen plant, killing two people, officials said.

The mayor's director of communications described the piece of the boiler as "van-sized."

Two people were in critical condition, and two others suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the fire department said.

Mark Spence, the COO of Faultless Healthcare Linen, confirmed that two Faultless Healthcare Linen employees were killed from debris that came into the plant after the explosion.

"One other Faultless Healthcare Linen employee was involved and the extent of that person's injuries has not been confirmed," Spence said in a statement. "We immediately will be giving what practical help we can to our employees and their families. We are grateful to the firefighters and other emergency responders who have acted heroically in response to this tragic event."

Spence said this location has 106 employees and that it could not yet be confirmed how many were in the building at the time of the incident.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has opened an investigation because the incident involved fatalities, an OSHA spokesman told ABC News. Health and Safety Compliance Officers are at scene interviewing witnesses and employers to see whether any potential safety violations may have led to the incident, the spokesman said.

ABC News' Devin Villacis and Jason Volack contributed to this report.

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Adrian Peterson is going to be a free agent next week. If you're hoping your NFL team signs him, please be aware of the following:

There is absolutely no way your team can play Peterson on obvious passing downs. He was a willing but largely incapable pass-blocker during his career with the Minnesota Vikings. If he didn't figure it out in his first 10 NFL seasons, he isn't going to do it now.

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Adrian Peterson is going to be a free agent next week. If you're hoping your NFL team signs him, please be aware of the following:

There is absolutely no way your team can play Peterson on obvious passing downs. He was a willing but largely incapable pass-blocker during his career with the Minnesota Vikings. If he didn't figure it out in his first 10 NFL seasons, he isn't going to do it now.

Your team could get burned if it counts on Peterson to be its first- and second-down workhorse. He has missed at least 13 games in two of the past three seasons, in 2016 because of a knee injury and in 2014 for NFL discipline, and has played a 16-game season only once since 2012. Knee injuries have cost him games in at least three different seasons. Though one might not be connected to the other, a big-picture look at his career arc clearly shows a decrease in availability over time.

Though Peterson has proved to be a unique physical talent, most recently in 2012 when he ran for a career-high 2,097 yards a year after tearing his ACL, history is not on his side. He turns 32 in March, and in 47 seasons since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, there have only been 10 instances of a runner that old producing a 1,000-yard season.

Most NFL teams are phasing out Peterson's favored formations. Nearly 95 percent of his career carries have come when the quarterback was under center. He has only 132 attempts when the quarterback is in the shotgun, a formation most teams prefer now. Meanwhile, he has a notably better average per carry (4.91 yards) when running behind a lead blocker than he does when he was the single back in a formation (4.61 yards). (Research courtesy of ESPN Stats & Information's John McTigue.)

This recitation isn't meant to be a buzzkill or even to play the contrarian role. It's just a sober reminder about the limitations of a 31-year-old running back who has a history of knee injuries along with some on-field imperfections that have grown increasingly relevant. They are issues that any self-aware team must consider before signing him.

Make no mistake. Peterson has been one of the NFL's best offensive players over the past decade. When he was drafted in the first round in 2007, he was a breakaway runner in a bruiser's body. From 2007-13, he produced a league-high 62 rushes of at least 25 yards, 15 more than the next-best player over that span ( Chris Johnson).

Since the start of the 2014 season, however, Peterson has only seven such runs. Part of that dip can be attributed to the games he has missed. Game mortality must also be considered. Peterson is not nearly the long-distance threat he once was.

With all that said, Peterson could still make a difference for the right team in the right situation. As we all learned after his ACL injury, his drive to surpass expectations might be unequaled in the NFL. But no team is going to trust a player to elevate upon all reasonable projections. No one should, at least. You would think that pursuing Peterson as a free agent would be a no-brainer, but clearly it's more complicated than that.

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At least 9 dead after train car explosion in St. Petersburg, Russia

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At least 11 people died today after a bomb exploded on a subway train traveling between two stations in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the country's health minister.

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The blast, which took place at 2:40 p.m. local time, happened between the Sennaya Ploshad station and the Technological Institute station. At least 45 people were hospitalized from the blast.

Russia's Investigative Committee called it an "undetermined explosive device." The committee, which is the country's primary federal investigative authority, has opened a criminal probe into what it has classified as a terrorist attack.

Pictures showed passengers appearing to flee a smoke-filled station as well as what appeared to be a mangled train car.

An improvised explosive device rigged with shrapnel was also found in a third St. Petersburg station, the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station. It was defused by bomb technicians and no one was hurt, officials said.

Russia's Interfax news agency reported that authorities believe this was a suicide attack carried out by a 23-year-old from Central Asia. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov said tonight that the suicide bomber theory has not been confirmed by investigators, according to state-run TASS news agency.

Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin has been briefed on the preliminary results of the investigation.

President Trump called the attack "a terrible thing."

"Terrible. Terrible thing. Happening all over the world. Absolutely a terrible thing," he said.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer today condemned the St. Petersburg attack, saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the injured as we extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones."

"Attacks like these on ordinary citizens going about their lives remind us that the world must work as one to combat violence in all forms," Spicer said at a White House press briefing in Washington. "The United States is prepared to offer assistance to Russia and may require investigating this crime."

Mark Toner, acting spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, said in a statement, "The United States condemns today's reprehensible attack on passengers of the St. Petersburg metro system. We extend our deepest condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed, and our thoughts and prayers are with those injured in the attack and with the Russian people."

Putin, who is in St. Petersburg for a forum, spoke in front of cameras after the explosion, alongside the president of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko.

"The causes are not yet clear, and so it's still early to talk about that, the investigation will show," Putin said. "But, naturally, we always examine all versions, ordinary and criminal - above all, incidents of a terrorist character."

The entire St. Petersburg subway system, which serves some 2 million riders a day, was shut down and evacuated. The subway system has since resumed operations.

Three days of mourning will be observed in St. Petersburg beginning Tuesday, according to Russian officials.

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At least 11 people died today after a bomb exploded on a subway train traveling between two stations in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to the country's health minister. The blast, which took place at 2:40 p.m. local time, happened between the Sennaya Ploshad station and the Technological...

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A 38-year-old woman and her daughter, died Sunday morning when the tornado with winds of 100 mph blew their mobile home off its foundations.

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An Uber driver was shot while he was dropping off a customer in Ballantyne on Saturday. The Uber driver got into some sort of altercation with a suspect, in this case the customer he was dropping off, who then fired a handgun multiple times into the Uber driver's car. The Uber driver was hit only once.

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The teens --a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy -- face charges including aggravated criminal sexual assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography, police said in a statement.

The 14-year-old, who was charged Saturday, was the "first of several juvenile offenders" from the March 19 assault to be arrested. Police have previously said they were looking for as many as six people who were shown in the video of the assault.

The 15-year-old turned himself into police and was accompanied by his mother, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted Monday.

The suspects will be charged as juveniles, according to Guglielmi.

Police spokesman Jose Estrada told CNN after the assault that the video showed mostly closeups of body parts, and identifying the suspects had been a challenge for investigators.

Online harassment

Police said the teenage victim has received online taunts and harassment during the course of their investigation into her assault, and they were working to ensure her safety and well-being.

The teen was reported missing the afternoon of March 19 after she didn't return from a store in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood.

It was between then and the following morning when her mother saw the live broadcast.

Police alerted

On March 20, her mother approached police Superintendent Eddie Johnson outside the 10th district headquarters and brought to his attention the live stream.

The teen's mother told him her daughter had been missing for 24 hours and she showed Johnson screengrabs of the live broadcast, police said.

At least 40 people were watching the live stream, but none of them reported it, police said.

The teen was treated at a hospital after the assault before returning home to her family.

CNN's Nicole Chavez and Deanna Hackney contributed to this report.

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The teens --a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy -- face charges including aggravated criminal sexual assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography, police said in a statement. The 14-year-old, who was charged Saturday, was the "first of several juvenile offenders" from the March 19 assault to be arrested.

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Eleven people were killed in a blast on the St. Petersburg metro on Monday, the Russian health ministry said, in what authorities described as a terrorist attack.

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The explosion tore through a train as it was traveling between two stations in Russia's second-largest city.

A second, larger device was found and defused at another station, Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which led to the shutdown of the city's metro system.

Alongside the dead, 51 people were injured in the incident, according to CNN affiliate RBC.

Four of the injured are in critical condition, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said from the Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Medicine, where many of the wounded are being treated, according to the state-run Tass news agency.

President Vladimir Putin, who had been in St. Petersburg earlier in the day, laid roses at a makeshift memorial with candles outside the bombed metro station.

US President Donald Trump spoke briefly with Putin on Monday, according to a senior administration official. Trump expressed his sympathies for the Russian people in the wake of the terror attack.

Train conductor may have saved lives

The blast occurred just after 2:30 p.m. (7:40 a.m. ET) as the train was traveling in a tunnel from Sennaya Ploshchad to Tekhnologichesky Institut stations in the city center. In the confusion, initial reports suggested there were two blasts.

Investigators are seizing items relative to the investigation, questioning witnesses and metro employees and working to confirm the number of dead and injured, Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The train conductor possibly saved lives, the committee said, because rather than stop the train after the blast, he continued on to the next station, which allowed passengers to evacuate and rescuers to tend to victims.

Photographs show the facade of one of the cars ripped off and passengers running from the Tekhnologichesky Institute station as it filled with smoke. Victims said they helped each other escape the train.

Bodies were seen strewn across a station platform outside the train. Rescuers carried bandaged and bloodied victims out of the station.

'We expected death'

Passengers described the horror in the aftermath of the blast.

"In the metro car, everyone expected death, if I can say that. After the explosion, everyone expected consequences. Then we were taken out, and people began to help each other, brought others out. Most were covered in blood," a passenger on the train told state-run TASS.

Another passenger at the Sennaya station, Stanislav Listyev, said he felt the explosion and saw smoke coming out of the tunnel.

"I was going down the escalator at Sennaya Square at about half past 2, and at that moment I felt an explosion wave underneath. Everything was filled with smoke, people started panicking. So the trains stopped and almost immediately the evacuation started," he told CNN.

People didn't have 'whole bodies'

Alexey Chirochkin was sitting on a bench in the subway station with his earphones on when he noticed a woman approaching him, he said. As he got up to give her his seat, the woman fell and he grabbed her.

Her face and hands were bloody, and she started crying when he asked if she needed an ambulance, he said.

"Then I take my earphones off, I look around (and I see that) the station is full of smoke," Chirochkin said. "People are running, panic (takes over). But there was no crowd. (People) did not jump over each other, did not push each other ... Some were jumping out of (the metro car's) windows."

"I saw a lot of injured people," he said. "People were crawling while bleeding. They had such a look in their eyes. A girl was yelling, 'Please help my guy!'"

Subway employees ordered people to leave the scene, he said.

Chirochkinrecalled helping a man pry open the jammed, bent train doors to pull a victim out of a car and lay him on the platform.

"It is possible that a person that I dragged out was dead," Chirochkin said. "He had a lot of blood on his jacket."

The scene inside the train cars horrified him.

"People there did not have whole bodies ... They were not asking for help. They were not moving," Chirochkin said. "Their eyes were glassy. They were bleeding out. Not a pleasant thing to see."

Investigation underway

A spokesman for the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the blast was caused by an unidentified explosive device in one of the train's cars.

"So far, we say it was an unidentified explosive device as investigators and the Federal Security Service's bomb specialists are to establish the exact cause of this explosion," Andrei Przhezdomsky told state-run Russia 24.

A second device was found at another metro station -- Revolutionary Square -- and was disabled, the committee said in statement. That device, hidden in a fire extinguisher, was larger than the one that went off, according to state media reports quoting law enforcement. It carried about a kilogram of TNT, the reports said.

Authorities closed down the entire metro system, whose five lines carry 2.3 million people a day.

Putin statement

Putin offered his condolences to the victims and said he has been in contact with the security services about the investigation, according to state media.

"The reasons for the explosion are unknown, so it's too early to talk about it. The investigation will show what happened," Putin said, at the beginning of a meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko. "Naturally, we always consider all options -- both domestic and criminal, primarily incidents of a terrorist nature."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin had been in St. Petersburg speaking at a media event.

Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, said that the choice of St. Petersburg as a target may have been tied to Putin's visit.

"The choice of the place and the timing of these blasts is not accidental. The president of Russia is in (St. Petersburg). The media forum is taking place there. There are many journalists," Ozerov said.

Medvedev said victims would be provided with "all necessary assistance." He said in a Facebook message: "My most sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the explosion."

Russia was once a hotspot for terror attacks, but the country has experienced relatively few in recent years.

In December 2013, a suicide bombing at a train station in Volgograd killed at least 16 people. The following day, in the same city, a suicide bombing on a trolley bus killed 14 people.

In 2010, two female suicide bombers blew themselves up at two Moscow metro stations, killing 40. They were linked to the Chechen insurgency.

And in 2002, Chechen rebels killed 170 people in a theater hostage situation in the capital, Moscow.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story attributed the terrorism motive to the Russian prosecutor general. It was the city's prosecutor general.

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The explosion tore through a train as it was traveling between two stations in Russia's second-largest city. A second, larger device was found and defused at another station, Russia's Anti-Terrorism Committee said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, which led to the shutdown of the city's metro system.

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The Russian authorities are sensibly being cautious before apportioning blame for Monday's metro blast. An earlier quote by the prosecutor-general that it was an act of terrorism was quickly retracted.

The FSB security service, the successors to the Soviet-era KGB, have skilled investigators, including forensic explosive experts. They will have been examining security camera footage and the explosive residue for clues, as well as the second device that was found intact and defused.

Their suspicions are likely to focus on two possible suspects, neither yet confirmed. First, an IS-inspired group enraged by recent Russian airstrikes in Syria. And second, Chechen nationalists (or even a combination of both).

Chechen militants and international jihadists do have a track record of plotting to attack Russia's transport hubs, notably in Moscow. An estimated 7,000 Russians have travelled to Syria to join extremist groups - and some have returned.

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Giants' Bumgarner 1st pitcher to hit 2 homers on Opening Day.

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One dead and eight hospitalized because of carbon monoxide in an indoor pool at a hotel

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Mr. Kohl- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee will give Neil Gorsuch the OK to get a vote in the Senate, and at 49, Gorsuch would be the youngest Supreme Court Justice in years.

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"You shouldn't change the rules. You should change the nominee," said Schumer, who predicted on "Meet the Press" that Gorsuch will not receive the support of 60 senators.

"It's a big deal," said Norm Orenstein, scholar at the center-right American Enterprise Institute. "You have a situation where you have rules and you have norms of behavior. The rules provide some significant check, but you still gotta operate with norms."

And while both Republicans and Democrats are aware of the calamity of the impending outcome, they also recognize that damage might be beyond repair after years of increased partisanship.

Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona has been engaged in conversations with some of his Republican and Democratic colleagues to stave off the worst-case scenario, but those haven't yet led to true negotiations.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is one of the Democratic senators McCain has spoken to, but Coons said there is "not a lot of common ground" to work with.

"There is not a lot of trust between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate," Coons told NBC News.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri who is up for re-election in 2018 in a state that Trump won, announced her opposition to Gorsuch on Friday, and said she'd go a step further and support a filibuster against him. She admitted in a Medium post that her decision could have deep political ramifications in the future.

"I remain very worried about our polarized politics and what the future will bring, since I'm certain we will have a Senate rule change that will usher in more extreme judges in the future." McCaskill wrote.

Democrats forced a rules change in 2013 after Senate Republicans blocked most of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees and several cabinet positions. The "nuclear option" imposed then reduced the threshold for passage from 60 votes to 51 votes for all cabinet and judicial positions other than the Supreme Court, allowing Obama's nominees to pass. It's a decision that Schumer has said he laments.

But McConnell's refusal to even consider President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, not giving him a hearing or even holding meetings, inflamed tensions.

The Republican leader has cited election-year politics as the reason for that decision - and it is one that Democrats admit is playing into their considerations on Gorsuch, who would assume the seat that has sat vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia died more than a year ago.

"As I talk to Democrats, I think we are all outraged at how Merrick Garland was treated in the process and that got us to where we are today. As I talk to Republicans, they remind me of the 2013 changes in rules," Coons said. "And frankly there is a long list of back and forth, back and forth about we believe they badly mistreated Barack Obama's nominees and they believe that Barack Obama overreached and that we were oblivious or unconcerned about their issues to executive overreach."

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13 year old killed by oncoming subway after retrieving her phone that she dropped on the tracks.