At least 38 people were shot, seven of them fatally, in Chicago over the weekend. Those killed included teens supposed to start the new school year Monday.
After half a century of captivity, Lolita the orca has died at the Miami Seaquarium in Florida. Lolita died as her caregivers prepared to possibly move her to a natural sea pen.
A day after a state of emergency was declared on Block Island due to a hotel fire, the island has already reopened to vacationers. Firefighters were shipped in from around the state.
A person was killed, and thirteen others were injured in three different Milwaukee, Wisconsin, shootings over the weekend. Police have arrested two shooters.
The final defendants in the Whitmer kidnapping plot are set to go on trial on Aug. 21, 2023. Four people have already pleaded guilty for their roles in the plot.
A train in South Dakota crashed into a car, killing both of the passengers in the vehicle. The train derailed during the accident and crashed into a grain elevator.
A kindergartner in Texas did not come home from his first day of school on his designated bus, but instead was let off at the wrong stop and brought back to school by a random family.
The recent raid of the Marion County Record was over claims that a reporter violated the law by obtaining the driving records of a local business owner, court documents claim.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 5.1 earthquake near Ojai, California, at 2:41 p.m. PT Sunday as Tropical Storm Hilary moved closer to the state.
The Chester County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney's Office said parents of a 4-year-old boy who died from fentanyl exposure in November 2023 were arrested this month and face charges in his death.
A California business owner, Laura Ann Carleton, was shot and killed at her clothing store in Cedar Glen on Friday after a reported dispute over a gay Pride flag, police say.
New York City firefighters responded to a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn on Lee Avenue and Williamsburg Street on Sunday, and earlier in the day rescued three kids from a blaze on Livonia Avenue.
