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Courtesy Carolyn Potter (FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.) — Dangerous fire conditions are creating the perfect fuel for wildfires to scorch through the arid landscapes of the Southwest. The Tunnel Fire, which sparked Sunday about 14 miles northeast [Read More…]

ThinkStock/Getty Images (SYRACUSE, N.Y.) — Police officers in Syracuse, New York, are under scrutiny after a video went viral of an 8-year-old boy being put into the back of a police cruiser after allegedly stealing [Read More…]

MoMo Productions/Getty Images (MILWAUKEE) — Milwaukee Public Schools reinstated the school district’s mask mandate Tuesday after just one day of making face coverings optional for students. In a press release, MPS cited “significant transmission” of [Read More…]

Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (SANTA FE, N.M.) — Rust Movie Productions was issued a “willful” citation, including a $136,793 penalty, on Wednesday for failures that led to cinematographer Halyna [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An alleged “intruder” at the Peruvian Embassy in Washington, D.C., was shot and killed by Secret Service Wednesday morning, according to authorities. The suspect was found smashing windows of the [Read More…]

Joel Carillet/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Brooke Tansley and her husband Scott Herrmann were aboard a Delta flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles on Monday with their two young children when the pilot told passengers [Read More…]

Indiana State Police department (NEW YORK) — Police are urging the public to help them identify a little boy mysteriously found dead in a suitcase in rural Indiana. The boy, about 5 years old, was [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lori Vallow pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder charges related to the deaths of her two children in 2019. Her husband Chad Daybell had previously pleaded not guilty on [Read More…]

Stockton Police Dept (STOCKTON, Calif.) — A suspect has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl at a high school in Stockton, California, in what officials said appears to be [Read More…]

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (PONTIAC, Mich.) — The parents of the accused Michigan school shooter were denied a request to reduce their bond on Tuesday. Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Matthews said the events leading to the [Read More…]

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — A man who has spent 32 years in prison for being wrongly convicted of murder was exonerated by San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Monday. Joaquin Ciria was [Read More…]

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (PONTIAC, Mich.) — The parents of the accused Michigan school shooter were denied a request to reduce their bond on Tuesday. Circuit Court Judge Cheryl Matthews said the events leading to the [Read More…]

Apu Gomes/Getty Images (COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz.) — A woman died after she was caught on a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a local sheriff’s office. On April 11, Cochise County, Arizona, deputies were [Read More…]

Lauren Owens Lambert/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (BOSTON) — It was a triumphant and emotional moment for Henry Richard as he threw his arms up in the air and crossed the finish line at the [Read More…]

kali9/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over the holiday weekend, 12 people were shot at a Columbia, South Carolina, mall. In nearby Hampton County, nine people were shot outside a nightclub. And in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, two [Read More…]

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — The New York City Police Department is searching for the person who stabbed a New York City mother to death and dumped her body in a large rollable duffel bag, police [Read More…]

iStock/ChiccoDodiFC (LOS ANGELES) — A 15-year-old girl was fatally stabbed by an intruder at a high school in Stockton, California, on Monday, according to officials. The student was killed when a man in his 40s [Read More…]

Craig Hastings/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Colorado River, a major freshwater source for over 40 million people in seven southwestern states and parts of northern Mexico, has lost 20% of its water levels over [Read More…]

iStock/nirat (NEW YORK) — Kentucky state Sen. Karen Berg went viral last month for an impassioned speech in the Senate chambers against the state’s new law that bans abortions after 15 weeks, calling the legislation [Read More…]

iStock/Motortion (ORLANDO) — Operator error is suspected as the primary cause in the death of a 14-year-old boy who slipped out of his seat on a drop-tower ride at a Florida amusement park and plunged [Read More…]