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A fire at a Wisconsin Dairy Plant resulted in melted butter entering a storm sewer system and ultimately spilling into an adjacent canal.

A man was arrested after allegedly using a sledgehammer to desecrate the altar at the Subiaco Abbey church in Arkansas on Thursday.

A Virginia inmate was honored Tuesday with a Citizen’s Service Award after saving a deputy who was choking on his food.

A 16-year-old student died after suffering a “medical emergency” during a flag football game Thursday in Las Vegas.

“Climate change” is putting women in Asia and Africa at an increased risk of becoming victims of domestic violence, a Washington Post article claimed on Tuesday. 

A family from Miami was walking around a frozen lake in Lac Beauport, Quebec, on December 30 when they discovered a dog had fallen through the ice and was trapped, crying out in the cold water.

A suspect who allegedly chewed off a 78-year-old man’s ear on a Portland suburb train platform thought the victim was a robot, according to prosecutors.

A Colorado funeral home director was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for illegally stealing and selling body parts without the consent of the families of the deceased, the Department of Justice stated in a press release. 

A Chicago carjacking suspect was arrested after running from pursuing police officers but was then caught hiding in a dumpster behind a police dispatch building, according to CWB Chicago.

Walter Cunningham, who was the last surviving astronaut of the Apollo 7 mission, died Tuesday morning at the age of 90, NASA announced.

An 18-year-old pilot remained calm, cool, and collected when he was forced to make an emergency landing on Route 66 after the engine failed in his small plane.

A professor from New York is facing criticism for accusing two Suffolk County police officers of murder after they fatally shot a suspect who stabbed them with a knife, leaving them both with severe injuries.

A Good Samaritan gave a Los Angeles ice cream shop owner a huge helping hand after his store was looted and vandalized on New Year’s Eve.

A Memphis man charged with first-degree murder was rearrested after being mistakenly released from jail with no bond on Sunday. 

A U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was robbed in Chicago Friday evening as mail theft incidents continue to rise in the city and surrounding suburbs.

The first homicide of 2023 in Chicago occurred 90 minutes into the New Year when a 38-year-old male was shot to death at a hookah lounge, CWB Chicago reported, citing police.

A good Samaritan is being praised for saving the lives of two police officers during the arrest of an armed robbery suspect that almost turned deadly.

Gigi Jordan, 62, a multimillionaire pharmaceutical executive convicted of killing her 8-year-old autistic son, was found dead in her Brooklyn home on Friday morning in a suspected suicide, according to multiple reports.

A university has declared the acronym “GOAT” banished for 2023, along with other common words and phrases such as “Amazing” and “It is what it is.”

A brother and sister said they had to stop six times in one day while driving a rented Tesla because the cold weather caused the battery to drain quickly and charge slowly at power stations. 

High inflation is causing single individuals to adjust their spending habits when considering outings for a first date, according to a recent survey conducted by Match Group Inc.

An American Airlines regional carrier ground crew employee was killed in a workplace accident on New Year’s Eve at Montgomery Regional Airport in Alabama.

A suspect with possible Islamic extremism ties is in custody after three police officers were injured in a machete attack near Times Square on New Year’s Eve.

A 16-year-old Massachusetts student-athlete is facing charges after allegedly punching a referee during a high school basketball game on Wednesday.

An Arizona man was arrested after he was caught on video allegedly sexually molesting a 4-year-old boy, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office. 

North Carolina State University radio commentator Gary Hahn was suspended Friday for his on-air comments about “illegal aliens” in El Paso, Texas.

A measles outbreak in central Ohio has infected at least 82 children, including 32 who have been hospitalized, according to Columbus Public Health (CPH).

Police officers escorted an unruly woman from a Broadway theater Tuesday after she disrupted a performance of the Arthur Miller classic “Death of a Salesman.”

A gunman fatally shot a woman in the stomach outside a liquor store Wednesday night in Detroit before escaping with the victim’s vehicle.

A debate is emerging over whether to preserve or destroy the Confederate monument that is soon be removed from Arlington National Cemetery.

GoFundeMe donors are raising money for the woman who saved a mentally disabled man who was stuck outside her home during the historic blizzard over the Christmas weekend in Buffalo.

A North Carolina homeowner and two deputies helped save a German Shepherd on Christmas Eve after it fell into a swimming pool while temperatures were below freezing.

A vehicle was caught on video driving down a frozen canal in downtown Indianapolis before it crashed through the ice late on Christmas Day.

The body of a Michigan doctor was found in a frozen pond near his home after he had been missing for five days. 

A Buffalo woman is being hailed as a hero after she rescued a 64-year-old mentally disabled man who became lost outside her home during the historic winter storm that gripped western New York and the nation. Sha’Kyra Aughtry was at

A career criminal was arrested Christmas Eve after he allegedly went on a stabbing spree that resulted in two people murdered, including a pediatrician.