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State police said it appeared to be a “tragic accident.” An autopsy was scheduled.

Bernard Rittenhouse, 55, of Waycross, was charged with two counts of felony murder and one count of burglary, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

The deaths in Andover come on the heels of a woman allegedly strangling three of her children before she jumped out a window in an attempted suicide at their suburban Boston home.

The car’s owner has not been arrested at this time, authorities said. The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner identified the boy as 12-year-old Elias Armstrong.

A 17-year-old boy died Saturday after he was found buried in several feet of sand at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, authorities said. Seashore law enforcement rangers responded about 2 p.m. to a 911 call about a teenager trapped in a hole that was about a tenth of a mile east of an off-road vehicle ramp in Frisco, the National Park Service said in a statement. The teenager’s family and friends had been looking for him when they found him in the sand, after portions of an adj…

Two people were found fatally shot in a dormitory room Friday morning, an incident that prompted officials to put part of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs on a short lockdown. University police got a report of gunfire in the room just before 6 a.m. local time. Officers “discovered two deceased individuals, each with at least one gunshot wound,” Colorado Springs police said in a post on X, adding that the department is now leading the investigation into the deaths. Residents of a stu…