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Jeff Malachowski Daily News Staff @JMalachowskiMW MARLBOROUGH – Firefighters quickly put out a blaze inside an unoccupied residence at the Royal Crest apartments Tuesday afternoon , mostly limiting the damage to that one apartment, said Fire Chief Kevin Breen . A resident of the apartment complex called 911 after seeing smoke emanating from a third-floor balcony of one of the residential buildings at the facility around 12:45 p.m., said Breen. Fire crews arrived moments later and encountered heavy smoke and fire. Firefighters immediately began an aggressive outside attack on the blaze and were able to quickly put it out, said Breen. The apartment was empty, which aided crews in containing the fire to the apartment. Breen said if there had been furniture and other materials in the apartment, the fire could have spread and the damage could have been much worse. “The fire was just ready to break from the area of origin,” said Breen. “We were very fortunate.” The apartment ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — After three days, Orlando police have yet to find any sign of Baby Willow. Investigators, along with city of Orlando crews searched sewer lines for any sign of the missing infant on Wednesday. Those searches and the reexamination of dumpsters from the Willow Bend Apartment Complex failed to yield any evidence, police said. Advertisement Related Content Officers were called to the Willow Bend Apartments , off Silver Star Road and Coast Line Drive , for a report of a placenta and afterbirth found in the parking lot Monday . Homicide and crime scene investigators arrived at the scene, and multiple teams of dogs and searchers canvassed the area, including every dumpster. They were ultimately unsuccessful in finding the baby, now dubbed "Baby Willow." According to a police report, bloody shoe prints led them to a home where neighbors said a pregnant woman lived . "We were consistently told how the female's pregnancy appeared to be nearly full term,...

The only remains of the birth of "Baby Willow" were washed away from an apartment complex parking lot Tuesday morning as distraught neighbors looked on. A day earlier Orlando police responded around 3 p.m. to Willow Bend Apartments after someone reported seeing a possible placenta in the parking lot. Homicide and crime- scene investigators determined "that a full term baby had been born and discarded," police said. Officers found the mother, 30-year-old Susan Richardson, on Monday but no baby. She only admitted to giving birth to the girl, according to police. Richardson was taken to the Orange County Jail on an aggravated child neglect charge Tuesday afternoon , police say. Police conducted an extensive search of the complex in the 4700 block of Silver Star Road near Evans High School — including inside Dumpsters and trash cans — with cadaver dogs and 14 trained searchers from the nonprofit support group Search and Rescue of Central Florida but came up emp...

SOUTH PASADENA >> A woman suffered serious injuries after an explosion and fire at an apartment complex Tuesday morning . Authorities said the fire displaced residents from six apartments. Mark Dondaville,division chief for the San Marino and South Pasadena fire departments , estimated damages at $200,000. He said the cause of the explosion is under investigation. “It’s not suspicious,” Dondaville said. • Photos: An inside look after the explosion Several 911 callers reported an explosion and fire at the 12-unit complex in the 1700 block of Huntington Drive at 6:33 a.m. Dondaville said the explosion happened in one unit. “It looks like it possibly started in the kitchen,” he said. He added that the resident was sleeping at the time. Dondaville said other residents at the complex heard the explosion, found the injured woman and called authorities. The injured woman was taken to Huntington Hospital and later transferred to Los Angeles County Medical Center , according to Dondavill...

SILVER SPRING, MD — Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the devastating explosion at the Flower Branch Apartments that killed seven residents, two of whom were children, and displaced about 100 people. A vigil will be held to remember the victims Thursday evening . The Aug. 10, 2016 blast was caused by a natural gas leak . A total of 28 apartment units were destroyed, and 50 families were displaced by the disaster. Dozens of residents were injured at the scene, some from burns and others from broken bones as they jumped from the third and fourth floors of the buildings. The vigil will be held by the nonprofit CASA from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot across the street of 8658 Piney Branch Rd. The vigil will honor those lost and the families of the victims will be invited to speak. The victims killed in the blast were: Deibi “David” Samir Lainez Morales, 8 Fernando Josue Hernandez Orellana, 3 Augusto Jimenez Sr., 62 Maria Auxiliadorai Castellon-Martinez, 53 Saul Pa...

MIDWEST CITY - Midwest City police said a shooting happened around 11:23 a.m. at the Meadowood Village apartment complex . Police said a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old were fighting in the parking lot but it escalated when the 16-year-old picked up a gun and shot the 18-year-old. “We received a call of a shooting at 6447 East Reno at the Meadowood apartments . When we arrived, we found a 16-year-old male and an 18-year-old female, who was the victim," said Chief Brandon Clabes . Midwest City police are now going door-to-door and combing through the neighborhood to try to determine why the teenager allegedly shot his girlfriend. “Apparently, the 16-year-old male was dating the female,” Clabes said. However, Thursday, the relationship took the violent turn. “They got into a domestic this morning and, as a result, the 16-year-old male shot the 18-year-old female and struck her in the buttocks area,” Clabes said. The shooting happened out in the parking lot of the apartment, whic...

HAYWARD, Calif. -- A Hayward police officer shot a woman Tuesday night and she later died from her injuries. It happened on Foothill Boulevard and Grove Way at the Summerwood apartments . The Hayward police were called by another police agency to conduct a welfare check on a woman around 7 p.m. According to the Hayward police , the 62-year-old woman had made several 911 calls before they arrived. They went to the woman's second story apartment , spoke with her at her apartment and displayed a handgun in a threatening manner. The police say that's when officers retreated to the parking lot of the complex, while telling the woman to drop the weapon. They say she advanced towards officers and that's when one officer fired his weapon. Neighbors we spoke with say they heard a woman yelling and then they saw a Hayward police officer take cover behind a car and fire at least four to five shots at the woman. She tumbled halfway down the stairs and that's when more neigh...

A College Station man was arrested Monday night after police say he threatened his neighbor with a machete. According to College Station police , a man called 911 around 8:30 p.m. Monday and said someone was attacking his stepfather with a machete. Police responded to an apartment complex in the 2700 block of Longmire Drive and spoke with Larry Darnell Moody , 66, and another man. The man said he had arrived home from shopping and saw his wife outside arguing with Moody, who is the couple's neighbor. The woman said Moody had offered the couple's children cigarettes, and the victim said he told Moody that if he caught him trying to give the children tobacco, there would be "a problem." According to a police report, Moody then picked up a machete and raised it in the air. The report states Moody told officers he was defending himself. No injuries were reported. Moody is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second- degree felony punishable b...

SOUTH BURLINGTON , Vt. — Kelly Cooney, 35, was all smiles Tuesday as she walked out of Vermont Superior Court . She and her boyfriend, Justin Perkins, 33, pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty charges at their arraignments. Advertisement "Ms. Cooney may not buy, possess or have any animal or pet in her home," said Judge Nancy Waples . The charges stem from an alleged animal cruelty situation last week at the O'Dell Apartments on Farrell Street in South Burlington . Police said a neighbor called 911 last Thursday to report a rumor about a kitten thrown into a dumpster. When first responders arrived, they said they heard sounds of a cat crying coming from the trash container at the apartment complex. Officer Sarah Bellevance said when she looked inside, she saw a kitten's face pressed up against a white trash bag . In court documents, the officer said she quickly tore the bag open and removed a small, wet, crying black kitten with brown discharge coming out ...

CBS12 reporter Yaremi Farinas has the latest on the Stonybrook apartment fire . (WPEC) RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) —  A newly released report shed light on the circumstances surrounding the apartment fire that nearly claimed the lives of three children. The report says Trenice Smith, the mother of the children, ran out of the apartment half naked after 22-year-old Velmando Williams, the father of her two sons, stabbed her in the back of the head with a knife during an argument. Latoya Rentz remembers the moment Smith noticed her three small kids were trapped inside a burning apartment . “When I looked at the window and they started getting black and stuff I'm like, 'Oh my God,'” Rentz said. “The girl Trenice was saying the kids were locked in." Williams locked Smith out of the apartment as she called for help, police said. “He don’t even know what he did to Trenice, what he did to her family,” Rentz said. Below is the recording of a 911 call that captured the cha...

Richmond County Sheriff ’s Richard Roundtree and his deputies were out in force Thursday trying to ease concerns of River Glen Apartment after recent violent incidents , as part of “Operation No One Wins”. “Over the last year, it’s been a roller coaster, up and down. Sometimes, we have our good moments. Sometimes we have our bad moments,” said River Glen Apartments resident Michelle Mapp . Mapp has lived at River Glen Apartments for more than a year. Thursday afternoon, the Augusta mother talked with Richmond County Sheriff ’s Office deputies about some of the problems she’s facing at the apartment complex. “About a couple of weeks ago, I had a bullet come above my window and a couple of inches down, that could have been me because it was me and my daughter sitting on the couch,” Mapp said. That’s why Sheriff Richard Roundtree wants to make sure that Mapp and the other River Glen residents no longer have to worry about the violence. He met with tenants to get a better understandin...

A nurse assistant pulled a 62-year-old man from a burning apartment Tuesday night in Hoffman Estates . He's being treated in the burn unit at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. rescue personnel responded to a fire at Barrington Lakes Apartments in Hoffman Estates Tuesday night . Here, evacuated residents walk the grounds with a pet." width="600" class="lazyImg" />   Fire and rescue personnel responded to a fire at Barrington Lakes Apartments in Hoffman Estates Tuesday night . Here, evacuated residents walk the grounds with a pet. - Patrick Kunzer | Staff Photographer Malgorzata Rostecka, who lives near the apartments in the 2000 block of Hassell Road where the fire occurred, said she and her 8-year-old daughter were out for a walk when they smelled smoke. She sent her daughter to call 911 and saw beyond an open door a man leaning against a wall in his burning apartment . She told the man to leave t...