A wildfire that was reported to have ignited in the Big Creek drainage in Sierra National Forest Friday evening has exploded to nearly 36,000 acres and trapped at least 150 people near a Fresno County reservoir. The Creek Fire — burning near Shaver Lake, Huntington Lake, and Big Creek — is 0% contained and tearing…
A Minnesota man was cutting down trees behind his home when one that fell trapped him underneath for four days, authorities said.Jonathan Ceplecha, 59, was rescued Monday after the Redwood County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call about a person stuck underneath a tree, the department said in a Facebook post. Ceplecha had been trapped…
We're now more than a week into the White House's attempts to rationalize Donald Trump's choice to tear gas peaceful protesters in order to clear the way for a photo op, and the excuses aren't getting any better. Officials can't even decide on one lie to tell, ping-ponging between denying the violence against protesters was that serious — the event…
Quick thinking by an off-duty officer helped save a 24-year-old hiker that was trapped in a whirlpool on Saturday as he tried to cross Angel Falls near Bass Lake in Madera County, California.
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…