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A 17-year-old boy in Florida who is accused of killing his mother on Sunday also allegedly killed his father in 2023. 

A Good Samaritan put himself in danger to rescue a driver on Wednesday in New Orleans, Louisiana, during Hurricane Francine’s flash floods.

LOS ANGELES, California — An earthquake measuring 5.1 magnitude rocked Los Angeles on Thursday morning just before 7:30 a.m., with the epicenter in the coastal community of Malibu, north of the city, famed for its surfing.

Two complete strangers made a daring rescue when a driver became stuck in his sinking pickup truck in Florida, with one of the heroes saying she just did “what needed to be done.”

A recall of apple juice has expanded to 133,500 cases of the drink sold in stores across America.

Wildfires fueled by soaring temperatures in the western United States have scorched thousands of acres, forcing hundreds of families to flee, US officials said Monday.

A farm in Bonduel, Wisconsin, is recalling two brands of eggs after numerous people fell ill due to salmonella.

Longtime Waffle House president and CEO Walter G. Ehmer has died at the age of 58, the Atlanta Police Foundation announced Saturday.

Automaker Stellantis is recalling over one million Ram pickups due to an issue linked to their electronic stability control (ESC).

Sept. 7 (UPI) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have extended home loans to undocumented immigrants under a program designed to increase homeownership in the state.

A child who went missing in Washington State is safe again thanks to first responders and a fisherman who worked together to find her.

An Arizona good Samaritan rescued a five-year-old boy with special needs who wandered into a busy intersection.

Wisconsin police reported that a suspected Venezuelan gang member was arrested and charged with the sexual and physical assault of a woman.

Hunters in Mississippi are reveling in the glory of catching a monster in the Yazoo River on the opening day of alligator hunting season.

Vacationers onboard a Carnival cruise ship were upset recently when they learned their trip was not going to be quite as they had planned.

Footage of a police chase shocked viewers when cops realized the suspect was fully nude and had his four-year-old son in the car.

Good Samaritans in New York City banded together to lift a minivan that had flipped over in a chaotic multi-victim crash on Saturday.

A woman is accused of stealing a casket with a body inside from a funeral home in Las Vegas and dumping the body outside the establishment.

The conservative Republican lieutenant governor of Virginia, Winsome Earle-Sears, is reportedly planning to run for governor in 2025.

A heroic California dad saved his five-year-old son from a vicious mountain lion attack over Labor Day weekend, the victim’s family said.

The body of a female infant was found at Lake Ft. Phantom, north of Abilene, Texas, on Saturday, according to police.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has called a “special session” of the state legislature to pass bills deal with high gas prices — but Democrats on either side of the state capitol cannot agree on whether to have the session at all.

Hundreds of homes in the coastal Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes have lost power due to a slow landslide that has resulted in several houses being deemed unsafe for occupancy.

A former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and her husband were arrested Tuesday, according to a law enforcement official.

Police are investigating the fentanyl death of a baby in Northwest Washington, DC, as a homicide, WTOP News reported on Sunday.

A couple in Phoenix, Arizona, survived when a car crashed into their house as they were eating dinner on Friday evening.

A missing three-year-old boy in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was found safe thanks to law enforcement’s use of a thermal drone.

The baby girl was born on July 30 and is now in the custody of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, state officials announced.

Black legislators were furious Saturday as a pair of bills to fund reparations stalled in the California state legislature as Gov. Gavin Newsom warned about costs, and activists warned Kamala Harris could suffer politically as a result.

A 54-year-old man is accused of attacking another man with a machete while they were on a Bronx subway train Saturday just after 1:00 a.m.

A reported 10,000 hotel workers in several cities across America are on strike in a push for better wages and a reversal of staffing cuts.

Seven people, including at least two children, were killed, and dozens more were wounded when a bus crashed in Mississippi.

A New York woman’s missing wedding ring was returned by a Good Samaritan who tirelessly searched for it on the beach.

A California woman has died after a suicidal man jumped from a Los Angeles-area highway overpass, landing on her and her husband’s vehicle.

Police arrested Sheridan Dirk Fogle after a woman’s remains were found underneath his backyard fire pit in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Rapper Fatman Scoop, whose real name was Isaac Freeman, died at 53 after collapsing at a concert in Hamden, Connecticut, on Friday.