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Local organization prepares to help Hurricane Harvey victims Local organization prepares to help Hurricane Harvey victims Updated: Sunday, August 27 2017 10:12 PM EDT 2017-08-28 02:12:08 GMT It could be several weeks before people are able to get back into their homes following Hurricane Harvey . But one local organization is already preparing to help Texans on the road to recovery. More >> It could be several weeks before people are able to get back into their homes following Hurricane Harvey . But one local organization is already preparing to help Texans on the road to recovery. More >> Volunteers mobilizing across the mid-state following Hurricane Harvey Volunteers mobilizing across the mid-state following Hurricane Harvey Updated: Sunday, August 27 2017 3:54 PM EDT 2017-08-27 19:54:51 GMT The Volunteer State always comes together in times of crisis. Red Cross volunteers are mobilizing for the trip to Texas and Louisiana. Right now, they are on standby, ready t...

Little Rock police say a robber took a man’s cash and cellphone, then demanded the shoes off his feet Thursday afternoon . The robber approached a man and woman around 3:30 p.m. at Fair Oaks Apartments on West 36th Street , according to a Little Rock Police Department report . He was wearing a red shirt and carrying a black and silver pistol, the report said. The victims told police he demanded everything out of the man’s pocket. After the man handed over $865 and his cellphone, the robber told him to take off his shoes, police said. When officers arrived at the scene, they searched the apartment complex for the robber and two others, police said. It wasn't clear how the other two people were involved. As of Friday, no arrests had been made.

FAYETTEVILLE -- Fayetteville Police are investigating a double homicide at the Barrington Place apartments - formerly known as Cambridge Arms. Two bodies were discovered around 5 a.m. Thursday at an apartment in the 300 block of Barcelona Drive. Click here to view a map of the area Authorities said a man and a woman were found shot to death in apartment #28 C, after someone passing by the rear of the apartment noticed a broken glass door . One body was found near the back door, while the other was in the kitchen. Police and family members identified the victims as 18-year-old Shaniqua Simmons and 29-year-old Jacoy Mahorn. "My sister's gone," cried Anita Simmons , who also lives in the complex. "She is fun. She is outgoing. She liked to have fun. She tried to live her life. She was so young." Simmons said her sister worked at the Sonic on Cliffdale Road and had spent all of Wednesday with Mahorn. She said the two were just friends, and she doesn't kno...

Valentina Livshits says the mysterious visitors came to her in Rostov-on-Don about a month ago, offering to buy her plot of land in the center of the southern Russian city at a knockdown price. The two men said they were "realtors" who "must report to the head of the city administration" about their "work with residents," Livshits, 62, told RFE/RL's Russian Service . "They got very upset when I refused. They vowed that the court wouldn't rule in my favor and that I'd simply be kicked out of my home," she said. Stories of similar ominous visits to the neighborhood by unidentified men had been bubbling for weeks before a massive fire tore through the area on August 21, damaging or destroying 123 residential buildings and killing one man . Numerous locals believe the blaze was deliberately set amid a battle for land in a rundown district that locals call "Govnyarka," or "Crapville." The neighborhood is not far fr...

(Source: WBRC video) (Source: Tuscaloosa Co. Metro Homicide) TUSCALOOSA, AL (WBRC) - Tuscaloosa authorities are looking for a man in connection with a shooting at Aspen Village apartments . Warrants have been obtained against Roy Willingham, 21, for attempted murder and second-degree assault.  Police say the shooting happened around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday at the complex off Skyland Boulevard. Two 21-year-old black males were shot. One of the victims told investigators that he and the other victim went to get some belongings from an apartment that one of them had just moved out of.  Police say when the two victims got to the apartment an altercation happened and a man inside the apartment came out and shot both of them. One victim has life-threatening injuries. The other victim received a graze wound to his back. Police say at this time the shooting does not appear to be related to any of the shootings from the previous days. Copyright 2016 WBRC. All rights reserved.

​ CLEVELAND -- The mother of a Cleveland 4-year-old boy shot in the head while riding in a car with her on I-90 spoke publicly for the first time Friday. Cecelia Hill thanked everyone for their thoughts and prayers. "I lost my faith that night; I wasn't able to protect my kid. I had to put my child in God's hands," she said. Hill said her son, Marquis Wellington, Jr., is doing well; she called him the "coolest, strongest kid you'll ever meet." Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital pediatric Surgeon Dr . Krystal Tomei also spoke. Dr. Tomei said the bullet tracked through the front part of the child's brain and his skull. "He was incredibly lucky. We don't always see kids that undergo the same type of procedure have the same outcome." Dr. Krystal Tomei of Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital speaks out about 4-year-old boy shot in Cleveland "He's doing great, all things considered -- had an excellent post-operative c...