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A pair of fishermen and a Mississippi fishing guide were surprised out on the water when they were confronted with 38 dogs in danger of drowning.

A man was found alive Thursday after being lost and spending nine nights alone in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains.

A family in New York adopted another child on Friday to reunite him with his sister after the two spent a long time in foster care.

Treasure hunters in Brevard County, Florida, made an exciting and historic discovery in May that has drawn lots of attention.

The FBI is offering a monetary reward for information leading to those responsible for the pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people in the past week.

An elderly man who was killed on June 12 when a truck accidentally hit him at a Brooklyn crosswalk was reportedly a former mobster.

Three people were missing on Saturday after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in southeastern Switzerland caused a landslide, authorities said.

An Amazon delivery driver in Queens took matters into his own hands when an alleged would-be carjacked targeted his female coworker.

A Pennsylvania couple tragically drowned while on vacation in Florida with their six children, authorities said.

The California Supreme Court blocked a ballot initiative for the first time in 25 years Thursday in a unanimous decision against a referendum that would have required voters to approve any state or local tax increases.

Voters in Temecula, California, have narrowly recalled Temecula Valley Unified School District board president Joseph Komrosky, who led a conservative backlash against a left-wing curriculum backed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

Two men, initially from Venezuela, are accused of strangling 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray and leaving her for dead in a creek.

A 12-year-old girl from Houston, Texas, was brutally strangled to death, and her body was dumped in a creek, officials said.

A family of Texas taekwondo instructors stepped in to save a woman from a sexual assault after hearing her screams near their dojo. 

An elderly couple was the victim of a deadly attempted robbery at a rest stop on an interstate in Nebraska on Wednesday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided the private home of “progressive” Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on Thursday morning — just days after a recall petition against Thao qualified for the November 2024 ballot.

The battle against homelessness in the Portland, Oregon, area reportedly came with a high cost in 2023, with most of the money going to temporary shelter, services, and housing placement.

A mayor in Florida shocked residents by resigning after issuing a letter to his neighbors about “corruptive behavior” among local leaders.

A new high-rise residential tower for the homeless that cost $600,000 per unit to build opened Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles.

Two Texas cyclists were run over by a brazen hit-and-run driver near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Tuesday.

Savage New Mexico wildfires near Ruidoso led to the evacuation of approximately 8,000 residents. At least one person died and more than 1,400 structures were burned in the South Fork and Salt Fires. The fires consumed more than 23,000 acres

The infant surrender marks the fiftieth baby box surrender nationwide since Safe Haven Baby Boxes began in 2015.

A man from Oakland, California, who is suspected of being involved with the firebombing of a University of California Police Department (UCPD) car and several other incidents was arrested on Monday.

Human remains believed to be those of a woman named Kimberly Langwell were found at her ex-boyfriend’s home on Friday in Beaumont, Texas.

Pizza Hut has reportedly closed 15 eateries in Indiana on Friday while 120 other locations are in danger of the same fate.

Automaker Stellantis is recalling almost 1.2 million vehicles due to a software glitch the company says can be fixed with an update.

The Village of Ruidoso in New Mexico announced that residents were being ordered to immediately evacuate from the village due to the ongoing spread of the South Fork Fire.

A Pennsylvania woman won $1 million from a lottery ticket just weeks before her husband died from a brain tumor.

A 21-year-old man was sentenced to a week in jail and ordered to pay a hefty fine after an incident at Yellowstone National Park. 

A woman was shocked to learn that a $40,000 car she bought for her retirement was actually stolen — three years after she purchased it.

Police in Delaware are looking for a suspect accused of getting away with a mountain of loot from a local pharmacy.

Major wildfires broke out in California this weekend up and down the state, forcing the closure of the southbound side of Interstate 5, just north of Los Angeles, on Sunday.

A single waste management facility in Pennsylvania has collected $10 million in lost coins since it began picking them out of the trash in 2017, a company executive said.

A “very polite,” but quite surprising, intruder broke into five Southern California homes on Thursday.

Two Florida brothers heroically helped multiple people involved in a fiery fatal car crash on Thursday, encouraging others to do the same.

Dozens were trapped upside down in the air for more than 20 minutes when an amusement park ride in Portland, Oregon, malfunctioned on Friday.