A Chicago man killed in an ambush shooting this week died shielding his infant daughter from gunfire, Chicago police confirm. The victim was stuck in morning traffic on the city’s west side when the suspected gunman pulled up next to his vehicle and fired shots at his car.
A Maryland man is accused of killing his mother and stabbing someone this past weekend has been charged in connection with three cold case murders in Washington, D.C., including one dating back nearly 30 years, authorities said Thursday.
A South Carolina girl was rescued by a neighbor Thursday morning during a violent alligator assault within the state, authorities said. The girl was walking alongside her pet when she was attacked by the eight-foot alligator.
A high school student is dead after a shooting Wednesday at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The suspect, believed to be a fellow student at the school, fled the scene before police arrived, authorities said.
A stunned U.S. East Coast woke up Thursday to a rising death toll, swelling rivers and destruction from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which lashed the region with record rainfall days after hitting the Gulf Coast as one of the strongest hurricanes on record to hit the U.S.
Texas has banned abortion for any pregnancy beyond six weeks. The new legislation has been criticized by activists and the President of the United States for going against the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the United States in 1973.
A driver and 10 students were quickly rescued from a school bus that submerged on a bridge in Frederick County near Thurmont due to flooding, according to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO).
A mother walking through the aisles of a Walmart in Washington was able to capture who could be a pedophile obsessed with her little boy, taking pictures of him, the woman asked the man to show her the camera of his cell phone and the surprise was great for her.
A model and social media influencer with millions of Instagram followers was found dead Sunday in her Texas apartment, according to authorities, who believe she was the victim of a murder-suicide.
Flames tore through treetops and drought-stricken vegetation as firefighters scrambled Wednesday to keep a growing California wildfire from reaching a resort town at the southern end of Lake Tahoe after evacuation orders expanded to neighboring Nevada.
Employees of WGNO-TV, a local news and weather station in New Orleans, Louisiana, were forced to evacuate the control room in the middle of live broadcasts as the roof had begun to “peel off” as Hurricane Ida slammed into the city, according to a tweet from Susan Reosgen, a reporter.
A 12-year-old Milwaukee boy died and another, an 8-year-old, was injured after suffering blunt trauma injuries during what is believed to be a hammer attack, according to local reports.
The United States intercepted up to five missiles aimed at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul on Monday, a day before the end of evacuation operations in Afghanistan.
A Los Angeles-area woman used her bare hands to fight off a 65-pound mountain lion attacking her 5-year-old son Thursday, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States, knocking out power throughout New Orleans, blowing the roofs off buildings and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River.
A Massachusetts high school teacher was arrested Thursday amid child pornography charges. Officers found about 40 images of child pornography on the laptop, including images of minors under 12 years old