FILE — chuchart duangdaw/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Officials say the wildfires that erupted on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Aug. 8 have become the deadliest natural disaster in state history. The blazes spread rapidly due to very dry conditions stemming from a drought combined with powerful winds. Much […]
amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Texas woman was arrested last week for allegedly threatening to kill the judge assigned to oversee former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington, D.C., according to court records. Abigail Jo Shry allegedly made a call to D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s […]
Whisker Labs CEO Bob Marshall (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — Maui’s first reported wildfire last week may have been caused by damaged power lines, according to newly released research conducted by a power monitoring company. On Aug. 7, more than an hour before Maui authorities said the first fire erupted […]
Heather Roberts/ABC News (MOSCOW, Idaho) — The financial costs to the community continue to climb in the aftermath of the killing of four Idaho college students last fall. Nine months after the King Road quadruple homicide rocked North Idaho, the University of Idaho has already blown through the $1 million […]
Ashley Cooper/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Investments to enhance system conservation and improved hydrology have led to “significant improvements” for Lake Mead this year, the federal government announced Tuesday, after the lake hit historic lows last year and the remains of several bodies were found. Lake Mead, located in the […]
Courtesy of Wayne Jones (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Two new civil lawsuits were filed Wednesday on behalf of loved ones of those killed and more than a dozen grocery store employees and customers who survived the 2022 racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York. The lawsuits […]
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (GREENSBORO, N.C.) — The family of two Black children who were allegedly assaulted at a pool by an apartment complex manager in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Aug. 2 filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the woman who was charged in the alleged assault, and the apartment complex. […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (PLUM, Pa.) — A sixth person has died days after a house exploded in Pennsylvania, officials said. Paul Oravitz, 56, died earlier Wednesday at a local hospital, Plum Borough officials and the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner said. Four adults and one adolescent were also recovered […]
Luke Nozicka/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (MARION, Kan.) — Marion County, Kansas, has said it will return evidence seized in a controversial police raid of a local newspaper after an attorney review. A search warrant for the newspaper’s offices had been acquired based on a probable cause […]
KSTP (GOODHUE, Minn.) — A small Minnesota city will soon be without its police force after the chief and several other officers all resigned, officials said. The Goodhue City Council approved the resignations of the chief, a full-time officer and five part-time officers during a special meeting on Monday that was […]
