The town of Smithtown, New York, on Long Island decided to rebrand the name of its anti-bias task force as a "unity council," prompting protest from members of the council.
Austin, Texas, Mayor Kirk Watson is being accused of putting politics over public safety for suspending a partnership with state police that had resulted in crime going down.
Air quality alerts have been posted by the EPA for many states from Montana to Ohio due to lingering thick concentrations of smoke from the Canadian wildfires.
A gardener doing yard work on a California property lost his hand and vision in one eye after he unknowingly picked up an undetonated firework, triggering an explosion.
An Oklahoma man driving his pickup truck in downtown Tulsa exited his vehicle and tackled a suspect involved in a foot pursuit, and Tulsa police captured it on camera.
Yaron Litwin, executive of AI-powered company Canopy, explains how "AI can be used for good" in an ongoing chess match with criminals using deepfakes in sextortion scams.
The family of a South Carolina woman who died in 2019 on the Murdaughs' boat during a booze-fueled crash, will received $15 million in a settlement with Parker's Corporation.
A wild cougar was seen at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon. Authorities urged residents to stay away as they worked to get the cougar down from the sea stack.
An Alabama woman who went missing Thursday returned home safe Saturday after "literally fighting for her life for 48 hours," according to her boyfriend.
James Silverstone, 62, was charged with 10 counts of transmitting child pornography on Thursday. Silverstone was a volunteer Santa and ex-official in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida.
A 79-year-old Connecticut pilot suffered a medical emergency while descending into Martha’s Vineyard, so the female passenger took over the controls and crash landed the plane.
A Pennsylvania woman defended her home by shooting two robbery suspects on Sunday morning, Philadelphia police said. Two of the men were located and charged with burglary.
An unidentified 34-year-old driver in Florida died after crashing into a mailbox in Casselberry, Seminole County. Authorities are investigating why the crash occurred.
California Highway Patrol officers assisted a woman in labor outside of Buttonwillow on July 8, the department announced. The officers helped deliver a baby girl on a rural road.
The remains of 2nd Lt. David Murrell Lewis, a Texan who died during World War II after his aircraft crashed in Romania during Operation Tidal Wave, will be buried Sunday.