Feds: $31M trip-and-fall scam used homeless people as pawns
Authorities say they’ve taken down a criminal racket in which corrupt lawyers and doctors used hundreds of desperate people, including…
Helicopter crashes into Tennessee River; 1 dead, 3 saved
Authorities say one person has died after a helicopter crashed into the Tennessee River August 4, 2020, 12:36 PM 2…
Church volunteer admits to arson attack on French cathedral
French authorities have detained and charged a repentant church volunteer after he told investigators that he was responsible for an…
Video and 911 audio released in Indiana police dog mauling
Authorities have released additional police video footage and 911 audio in the May arrest of a Black northwestern Indiana man…
Small plane crashes into Utah neighborhood; multiple injured
Authorities say multiple people were injured when a small airplane crashed in a suburban Salt Lake City neighborhood on Saturday…
San Francisco bus driver assaulted with bat over mask order
A San Francisco bus driver was assaulted with a wooden bat after asking three passengers to wear a mask in…
Thousands in Puerto Rico still without housing since Maria
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Nearly three years after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, tens of thousands of homes…
Coast Guard makes two rescues from boat before it goes under
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a commercial fisherman who was clinging to a cooler in the Gulf of Mexico after…
New Jersey woman survives mile-long ride through storm drain
A New Jersey woman survived a mile-long ride through a storm drain after a flash flood swept her and her…
Swiss zookeeper dies after tiger attack inside enclosure
The zoo in Switzerland’s biggest city says a 55-year-old keeper was killed by one of the park’s Siberian tigers July…
Scuba diver killed in Australia shark attack
A 20-year-old scuba diver has died after being attacked by a shark off the coast of Australia’s Queensland state July…
5 die after SUV crosses interstate median in South Carolina
South Carolina troopers say five people inside a SUV have died after their vehicle crossed an interstate median and hit…
2 tremors shake Puerto Rico, latest in series of quakes
Two strong earthquakes have shaken Puerto Rico, but there have been no reports of injuries in the latest of a…
Analysts: Fire at Iran nuclear site hit centrifuge facility
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A fire and an explosion struck a centrifuge production plant above Iran‘s underground Natanz nuclear…
Radioactivity hike seen in northern Europe; source unknown
Nordic authorities say they detected slightly increased levels of radioactivity in northern Europe this month that Dutch officials said may…
Michigan seeks disaster declaration after 2 dam failures
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she will request a federal disaster declaration for the Midland area, where a failure of…
Smoky fire prompts evacuations in rural Northern California
Strong winds fed a smoky fire that threatened about 100 rural homes and prompted evacuations in Northern California June 7,…
Workers to begin untangling charred metal web on Notre Dame
Workers suspended from ropes will be lowered into the charred remains of scaffolding that melted atop Notre Dame when the…
Brush fire north of Phoenix forces evacuation of 250 people
Officials say high winds caused a brush fire in a town near Phoenix to nearly quadruple in size and force…
6 killed, 20 injured as bus flips over on China highway
Six people have died and 20 others are injured after a bus flipped over on a highway in southwestern China…
Fire, explosion in Los Angeles injures 10 firefighters
An explosion in downtown Los Angeles has injured 10 firefighters, and more than 200 are trying to douse the blaze…
Truck collision on Indian highway kills 23 migrant workers
A government official says at least 23 migrant workers have been killed when a truck they were travelling in crashed…
Report: Bryant crash pilot had no drugs, alcohol in system
LOS ANGELES — The pilot flying Kobe Bryant and seven others to a youth basketball tournament did not have alcohol…
Puerto Rico to hold statehood referendum amid disillusion
Puerto Rico will hold a nonbinding referendum in November to decide whether the island should become a U.S. state By…
Coroner: French bulldog fatally mauls suburban Chicago woman
Authorities say a suburban Chicago woman was mauled to death by a French bulldog that she recently adopted and that…
Flash flooding kills 2 sisters, ages 7 and 3, in Utah canyon
Two sisters ages 7 and 3 have died in flash flooding that sent torrents of water roaring into a narrow…
Surfer killed in shark attack was passionate about the sport
A surfer killed in a shark attack off a Northern California beach was identified as a 26-year-old man who customized…
Firefighters continue battling fires in Florida Panhandle
Florida firefighters are hoping to hold containment lines around a 2,000-acre fire in the state’s Panhandle, where winds are expected…
Woman killed by alligator in SC was doing homeowner’s nails
Authorities say the woman attacked and killed by an alligator in a gated community along the South Carolina coast was…
New Orleans issues permit to demolition collapsed hotel
Plans to demolish the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans have been given the go-ahead, after months of disagreements between…
South Korea construction fire kills 38
At least 38 people were killed when one of South Korea’s worst fires in years broke out at a construction…
Curtain lowers on nuke plant a stone’s throw from Manhattan
One of the two operating reactors at an aging nuclear plant in the New York City area will shut down…
Coast Guard: Duck boat changes needed after Missouri sinking
National federal safety regulators say actions by the owners of a tourist boat that sank in Missouri in 2018 and…
Lightning kills at least 10 in India amid heavy rain
A government official says lightning has killed at least 10 villagers during thunderstorms and heavy rain in eastern India April…
Officials: Man angry about stimulus check set shed on fire
Fire Marshals in Louisiana say a man set his mother’s shed on fire out of anger that he didn’t get…
UN food agency chief: World on brink of ‘a hunger pandemic’
The head of the U_N_ food agency is warning that, as the world is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, it…
Study: Warming makes US West megadrought worst in modern age
A new study finds that much of the western United States is baking in what scientists call an emerging megadrought…
PG&E pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in wildfire
Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to plead guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the 2018…
Report: Pilots restarted software, causing fatal nosedive
Desperate pilots of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max reactivated the jet’s flight control software that prevents aerodynamic stalls when…
Chinese hotel used to observe virus contacts collapses
News reports say a hotel in southeastern China being used for medical observation of people who had contact with coronavirus…
Driver dies after jet fuel tanker crash in Indianapolis
A truck driver has died 16 days after he was engulfed in flames when his tanker carrying jet fuel crashed…
Parents sue after daughters’ bodies switched after car crash
The parents of two teenagers killed in a car crash say their bodies were misidentified and switched By CURT ANDERSON…
Authorities: 3 killed in rural West Texas small plane crash
Authorities say three people were killed when a small plane crashed in rural West Texas as the pilot tried to…
Mississippi braces for flooding amid cresting river
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Saturday amid fears the Pearl River at Jackson could reach its…
Third student-runner who was struck by speeding truck dies
A third suburban Oklahoma City high school student has died after a group of cross-country runners was stuck by a…
Missouri dad sues over crash that killed 3 of his children
A father has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in the deaths of three of his children last year in a…
Man hunts down alleged hit-and-run driver after wife killed
A California man who made it his mission to track down the hit-and-run driver who killed his wife and mother…
Iran again fails to put satellite into orbit amid US worries
Iranian state television says the country’s space program has failed to launch into orbit a satellite By AMIR VAHDAT and…
Spain, UK report new virus cases as they hunt down carriers
The U.K. has confirmed its fourth case of the new virus from China and Spain reported its second case By…
Wreckage of small jet found north of Atlanta
The wreckage of a small jet has been found in a remote area of Georgia, north of Atlanta February 9,…
North Carolina police arrest man they say set woman on fire
Police in North Carolina have arrested a man accused of dousing a woman in flammable liquid and lighting her on…
2nd worker dies of injuries from Texas oil well blowout
A second worker has died of injuries from a Central Texas oil well blowout January 31, 2020, 10:18 PM 1…
Suspect in Hawaii officers’ deaths described as unhinged
HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed a…
No jail time for distracted driver who killed 2 cyclists
A Florida woman who ran her car into a group of bicyclists, killing two people, will avoid jail time January…
Pilot killed in Utah plane crash was founder of ski company
The pilot killed when his small plane crashed into a Utah neighborhood Wednesday was the founder of a company that…
911 calls reveal horror, chaos of Vegas fire that killed 6
Newly released audio recordings of 911 calls are revealing the horror that Las Vegas apartment complex residents faced last month…
Defying police, Iranians protest over plane shootdown
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian demonstrators defied a heavy police presence Sunday night to protest their country’s days of…
Fire engulfs nursing home in Croatia, at least 6 dead
Croatian authorities say a fire has engulfed part of a nursing home in northern Croatia, killing at least six people…