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Craig Alercia, 55, faces child endangerment counts after police in Easton, Pa., said he left three children, including a 10-year-old boy who had a jacket and two girls, ages 10 and 11, who didn’t, at a McDonald’s restaurant and told them to walk home in 14-degree weather.

Jeremy Lemons said a neighborhood flier for a “Christmas lingerie/pajama party” billed it as a 21st birthday celebration, a revelry that resulted in the arrests of nearly 70 people, mostly on drug possession charges, after police in Cartersville, Ga., responded to a report of shots fired.

Jeff Strayer, a police sergeant in Columbus, Ohio, said doctors successfully delivered the baby son of a woman who was 35 weeks pregnant when she was shot during a robbery at a house, a crime that resulted in the death of her and a man, and the wounding of a third person.

Jacob Pierce said he and other hikers on a trail in Berea, Ky., heard someone yelling for help and found an injured woman who had spent the night outside in below-freezing temperatures after falling about 50 feet.

Amber King, a 7-monthold baby, was found safe in her car seat on a rural road in north Harris County, Texas, after a thief jumped into the driver’s seat of the car and took off while the baby’s mother, Allison King, was in a convenience store in Humble.

David Mosher of East Windsor, Conn., married his 31-year-old wife, Heather, who wore a wedding gown and oxygen mask during the rite at a hospital where she was being treated for an aggressive form of breast cancer, just 18 hours before she died.