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A 55-year-old Brooklyn man is dead following being punched in the face by an unidentified assailant in New York’s Penn Station on Saturday night.

A fire at an apartment building resulted in three lives saved and a firefighter experiencing a close call on Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri. 

A 25-year-old mountain biker died nearly a month after being bitten by a rattlesnake in Irvine, California.

Officials are investigating the death of a 12-year-old girl who died this week after a fight that erupted when a group of students got off a school bus in an Atlanta suburb.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo was escorted out of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo after attempting to enter a restricted chute‑seat area without the required wristband, according to rodeo officials — a confrontation that prompted the entitled Texas Democrat to post a lengthy online complaint accusing staff of mistreatment and “mentality” issues.

A well-known treasure hunter has been released from prison after refusing to disclose the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins found at the site of an 1857 shipwreck.

Governor Greg Abbott has warned Corpus Christi city leaders they must address an imminent water crisis affecting the coastal city’s water supply or face a takeover by the state. Former city officials believe the crisis could negatively affect the city’s fuel-refining industry, which currently ranks fifth nationally in refining capacity.

A Florida woman is accused of giving birth on a toilet and leaving the baby to drown, before later hiding the child in a duffle bag and burying her in a shallow grave. 

The Georgia teen charged with fatally running over a teacher has broken his silence as more details emerge about the normally harmless high school prank that went tragically wrong.

A Southwest flight from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale was diverted to Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday after a passenger who had set a prayer timer for Ramadan became “agitated” in what was reportedly misunderstood as a “possible security matter.”

A second baby has been safely surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box location in Tennessee. 

A local Republican committee in a deep red Virginia county is in turmoil after RINOs and Democrats staged what some members are calling a “coup” by using a disorganized meeting to hold a flawed election to pick a new chairman and oust more than 100 people.

A passenger made quite the scene after she was accused of playing a cellphone video on her loudspeaker once she boarded an American Airlines flight from Miami to Tampa recently.

A measles outbreak is spreading across Northern California and officials said over 100 children may have been exposed to the illness at a recent event.

The widow of the high school teacher in Gainesville, Georgia, who died after a prank gone wrong wants the charges against the students involved dropped.

An art center that serves veterans and their families in Grand Junction, Colorado, is finally getting needed repairs after years of leaks and becoming a target of theft. 

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) has vetoed a bill to create a specialty license plate honoring Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, who was brutally assassinated in September.

A man bled to death after apparently cutting off his penis and mutilating other parts of his body in the dead of night Saturday in downtown Los Angeles.

Officials reportedly said a prison guard in the unit where Jeffrey Epstein was being held Googled his name minutes before he was found dead. 

Man’s best friend has once again proven its ability to detect someone in trouble and lead its human companion to the scene to summon life-saving help.

The second highest-ranking official in the Washington, D.C. police department — also named in a probe into the department’s purported underreporting of crime statistics — has been placed on administrative leave, reportedly over “inappropriate” text messages on his work phone.

A newborn baby was safely surrendered to a hospital in Greenville, South Carolina, on Monday. 

An 82-year-old widower who had been trying to improve safety at a Colorado intersection where his wife was fatally struck during a morning run in 2024 died in a car crash in same location.

A supporter of President Donald Trump who was refused service at a Smoothie King in Michigan said he and his family have been getting threatening messages.

Police are investigating a man wearing camouflage who entered the hotel where Texas Attorney General Kent Paxton is hosting his election night party in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday. 

A Wisconsin nurse is behind bars for falsely accusing a drug-court patient of sexual assault after having sex with him several times. 

Shocking footage emerged Friday of a man hanging onto several moving cars, his pants sliding down as the vehicles motor down a four-lane boulevard in Sacramento, California.

A fire station in Rapid City, South Dakota, has opened the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box. 

A woman accused in the brutal killing of an Uber Eats driver in Chicago on Monday has a lengthy criminal history.

Two drivers in Omaha, Nebraska, found themselves in a frightening predicament Tuesday when the ground beneath their cars gave way.

A toddler screamed for his mother when a coyote chased him outside their home in Pasadena, California, on Monday.

A viral video taken at a Whataburger in Paris, Texas, shows the restaurant manager repeatedly slamming a plastic trash can over the body of an unruly customer who allegedly ventured behind the counter and assaulted the manager. It is not known what the customer ordered, but the video shows what he was served.

A young man’s beloved dog was finally found after he went missing in the Colorado Rockies for 43 days. 

Law enforcement said a North Carolina mother missing for the past 24 years was found alive but does not wish to reveal her exact whereabouts.