Eight young children were stabbed to death in a gruesome attack on a Queensland, Australia home today.

According to reports, a fifteen-year-old Chicago boy died saving his twin brother from armed assailants this weekend.

Dave Benton, an Illinois news anchorman, made a heartbreaking on-air announcement Thursday that his doctors believe he only has four to six months left to live.

Chicago Fire actress Molly Glynn died this weekend after getting caught in a fast-moving storm during a Friday afternoon bicycle ride in Chicago.

The police report from the tragic accidental gun range shooting involving a nine-year-old girl was apparently released today, and it's being described as a "chilling portrait" of a family whose lives were forever changed in a split second.

Police say a drunk 21-year-old woman driving over 100 miles per hour the wrong way down a freeway collided head-on into another vehicle early Sunday morning, killing six people. And an eerily similar collision killed five people driving on a Florida interstate around the same time.

An eight-year-old old boy died on Monday after he rescued six family members from a house fire and went back to warn two more.

Prosecutors say that a Texas man driving his wife and four children around in his SUV was so drunk that he didn't notice his four-year-old son get fatally ejected from the backseat of the car as he twice collided into a Chicago highway guardrail.

A father and his 15-year-old son drowned on Christmas day during a cave dive in north Florida. The two were reportedly testing new diving equipment the 15-year-old had received that morning as a Christmas gift.

The two-year-old son of Minnesota Vikings running back and NFL MVP Adrian Peterson died on Friday afternoon, following an apparent beating from his mother's boyfriend.

Early Thursday morning, a 35-year-old woman on a first date fell to her death from the 17^th floor of her Manhattan apartment building. The woman, an ad executive, was on her balcony having a cigarette when the railing apparently gave way.

A 5-year-old boy whose family's home was destroyed during last month's tornado in Oklahoma was killed by a bull mastiff over the weekend. The dog belonged to a family friend, who the boy had been staying with since the tornado.

In a desperate bid to prevent police from arresting her drug trafficking sons, a 74-year-old woman from Aragon, Spain, swallowed their entire stash, causing her to suffer a heart attack and die.

According to Pennsylvania State Police, on Saturday a 16-year-old stabbed his 17-year-old girlfriend to death as the two were in the middle of an argument. When the teenager returned home, bloodied and crying, he reportedly confessed to his mom.

Late Saturday night, five women on the way to a bachelorette party died after a fire broke out in their limousine. The bride, who was just recently married, was among those killed. The driver and four other women managed to escape.