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An apartment resident shot and killed an alleged intruder around 1 a.m. Monday morning in Atlanta, Georgia. 

The Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health is developing a policy that could ban people from smoking in their own apartments.

A man was crushed to death by a trash compactor after climbing into the garbage chute in a Brooklyn apartment building. 

Seoul’s government announced plans on Wednesday to ban basement apartments in the South Korean national capital — a style of subterranean home depicted in the Oscar-winning film Parasite — after four people drowned to death in such apartments in recent days during record floods, the BBC reported.

New York City police are looking for three suspects they say tossed an elderly woman to the ground during a robbery, causing her to break a hip. 

New Jersey mother Kristhie I. Alcazar, 26, has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing her 5-month-old infant daughter to death. 

A man allegedly broke into a Eugene, Oregon, apartment Monday morning then died after the male resident shot him.

A 24-year-old man from Spain climbed a two-story building to rescue an 80-year-old woman from what could have been a fatal fall, according to videos of the incident.

An Asian woman was brutally attacked in Midtown Manhattan in New York City on Monday while the staff in a nearby building watched and did nothing to help, according to a video.

A 34-year-old New York City woman was discovered dead in a Staten Island apartment’s garbage chute, police said.

Explosions rocked apartment buildings in two Swedish cities within minutes of each other this week as the problem of bombings continues across the country.

The wealthy young college student from New York City accused of rioting in Lower Manhattan allegedly revealed plans to take over luxury apartments abandoned by “white flight,” and defend them from other people taking over by tossing bricks off the rooftops.

Portland Police declared a riot outside the high-rise apartment building where Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler lives, making 19 arrests Monday night.

Contrary to grim forecasts, rent shortfalls across the country have not come to pass. About as many Americans are paying rent as were last year.

A homeless woman who was living out of her vehicle with her two dogs has finally found a home thanks to two strangers who posted on a local social media site to find out more about her.

A 35-year-old man with extensive experience in roofing and construction used his skills to scale a 19-story building to rescue his mother trapped in a building during a fire.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently minimized the rvalueof her luxury DC apartment, likening it to a Queens public housing unit.

At least 30 people were injured after the floor collapsed at a Clemson apartment, causing people to fall into the basement early Sunday morning.

A man set his New York City apartment ablaze Saturday, killing his girlfriend and himself after he caught his girlfriend having an affair with another man, police said.

A California man who reportedly attempted to kill a spider using a torch lighter wound up destroying more than a small insect.

A man from Queens, New York, who allegedly molested two children at a birthday party, died hours after the alleged incident, police said.

A man died after he crashed a car with four propane tanks inside into his former girlfriend’s Florida apartment, police say.

A registered sex offender who was released from prison six weeks ago is back in jail after he allegedly broke into a stranger’s Kansas apartment to rape a 7-year-old girl.

Two Texas cities — Austin and Houston — are among the top ten metropolitan areas in the United States that had the highest percentage increases in rental prices last year. San Francisco and San Jose, California were ranked first and second, both with median rent prices of over $3,000 per month. Austin was ranked sixth and Houston eighth.

A 13-year-old Boston terrier that miraculously survived a 15-story fall and then landed in a jacuzzi, in one of Sacramento’s tallest high rises, was able to walk away with a few fractured ribs and a fractured pelvis. “Whenever I tell