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A skydiving plane carrying 15 people crashed at the edge of the runway during takeoff from a small airport in New Jersey on Wednesday.

Officials are sharing more details about the moments leading up to a Mexican Navy tall ship hitting the Brooklyn Bridge in May, an incident that left two crew members dead and 19 others hurt.

Chicago has once again been named the most bedbug-infested city in the United States, the news coming as it also grapples with a rat problem.

California legislators took a rare step in the right direction on Monday when they passed a law rolling back the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) restrictions on building housing in urban “infill” areas.

A father took immediate action when his daughter fell overboard from a Disney cruise ship on Sunday.

One person was left dead and two others were left injured after multiple buildings in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, collapsed and exploded, according to the Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD).

A festival in Somerset, Kentucky, wowed crowds with a Dukes of Hazzard-style stunt at the town’s Fountain Square on Saturday. 

A bloody road rage incident was caught on camera on Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and one person was arrested.

A baby was rescued from a hot car on June 17 thanks to the swift actions of two police officers in Corona, California.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) is running for a third term and his announcement on Thursday has garnered much criticism.

The U.S. Department of Justice — including the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Central District of California, and the Civil Rights Division — sued Orange County on Wednesday for failing to turn over records of non-citizens voting.

The first major heat wave of the summer has hit areas of the United States as millions try to stay cool.

Law enforcement officers recently recovered 60 “critically missing” children in the Tampa Bay area of Florida over a two-week period in an effort dubbed Operation Dragon Eye.

FedEx founder Fred Smith, who was also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, died Saturday at the age of 80.

A yacht carrying nearly 400 passengers hit a pier on the Hudson River Saturday, leaving dozens of people hurt.

Two people are dead after a rock slide on Thursday at Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass looked doomed, politically, after the Palisades Fire. But she is building a comeback by championing the cause of the rioters against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of killing her police officer boyfriend in 2022, was found not guilty on Wednesday.

A Texas judge admonished a man who wore a T-shirt to his felony court appearance that read “World’s Best Farter.” 

A Charleston, South Carolina group aiming to preserve southern United States history is suing the local government and school board to return statues of Vice President John C. Calhoun and Confederate General Robert E. Lee to their original displays after they were removed by leftists during the 2020-2021 Black Lives Matter movement.

Two amazing and uplifting events among jail inmates in Kentucky and Tennessee have resulted in changed lives.

A 24-year-old blind man escaped a recent house fire in Cicero, New York, but his grandparents were tragically killed and neighbors are reeling from the loss.

Looters smashed their way into an AutoZone store in South Los Angeles on Monday, the same location that was hit twice before.

A Democrat lawmaker in North Carolina is taking a lot of heat for a social media post that depicted a violent image of a severed head resembling President Donald Trump.

A newborn was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box in Mississippi, making it the state’s second surrender.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Sunday that ongoing unrest, which she blamed partly on President Donald Trump’s “federal escalation,” meant that Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers would no longer operate checkpoints to protect homes in the burn zone of the Palisades Fire.

Nearly a dozen people, including a 14-year-old girl, were injured Saturday night in a suburb of Los Angeles when a car crashed into a crowd leaving a soccer match at Southern California’s SoFi Stadium.

A Florida senior pleaded not guilty this week to urinating on cans of Spam and Vienna sausages at a Sam’s Club late last month, resulting in the waste of more than $10,000 in food, authorities said.

A New York father’s two-year-old son was alive when he allegedly threw him off a bridge in New York.

People enjoying the lights of Las Vegas were shocked when a person reportedly threw fireworks at a palm tree and it burst into flames.

A mother whose toddler’s body was found in a dresser drawer after the one-year-old girl had been thrown on the floor by her boyfriend will be spending 25 years in prison, while the boyfriend was sentenced to nearly twice that for his role in the child’s death.

A federal judge has blocked an executive order (EO) from President Donald Trump that sought to require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday.

A jury wasted no time convicting a Pennsylvania truck driver this week of the horrific murder of a young pregnant Amish woman who disrupted his burglary of her home.

A veteran in Lewiston, Idaho, no longer has to worry about replacing the roof on his home thanks to some generous people.

Law enforcement on Sunday saved a 68 year-old woman after they rescued her from a vehicle fire when her car flipped over during a crash in New York.

Over 26,000 people in communities across America were baptized in a single day recently — and those numbers may climb even higher.