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Eighteen people are missing in the aftermath of a blast at an explosives plant in Tennessee that has devastated community members. 

A pizza delivery driver is being showered with blessings thanks to a kind-hearted pastor in Castle Rock, Colorado.

A library director who was fired in 2023 after a dispute over books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes in sections for children and teenagers has settled a lawsuit and will be paid $700,000.

A man in St. Petersburg, Florida, is accused of stealing $7,000 in scratch-off lottery tickets and wasting no time to redeem them.

The pup, named Opie, bolted from his home in Beiber, California, in July during a severe thunderstorm.

The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) released its official after-action report on the Palisades Fire on Wednesday — and it completely omits any mention of the empty Santa Ynez reservoir during the fire.

A 35-year-old drag queen in Phoenix, Arizona, is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old boy after meeting on a dating app.

A teenager shot his pregnant girlfriend and then fatally shot her brother who tried to protect her on Wednesday, law enforcement in Barron County, Wisconsin, said.

A medical helicopter crashed onto a highway Monday evening in Sacramento, California, leaving three injured.

A transgender school bus driver in Charlotte, North Carolina, is accused of sexually assaulting several 14- and 15-year-old boys.

A World War II veteran in Tallahassee, Florida, recently celebrated a big birthday surrounded by his loved ones.

A teenager claims a Build-A-Bear employee in Tukwila, Washington, refused to print Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s name on her teddy bear’s birth certificate. 

A suspected bear attack took the life of a Springfield, Missouri man — only days after he sent his family photographs of a young bruin checking out his Arkansas campsite.

Virginia Democrat attorney general hopeful Jay Jones is being pressured to drop out of the race after text messages revealed he apparently fantasized about a Republican lawmaker being fatally shot.

Videos released by police in New Mexico capture the fiery crash of a street race gone bad and the moment police reached into an overturned, burning car to save a young man from the flames.

Two Silver Spring, Maryland firemen have been charged with misdemeanors after they rained out a baseball game with their fire truck amid a long-running feud over balls being hit on fire department property.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) is blaming leftist groups and his own party for the ongoing government shutdown.

The Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino in Eagle Pass reopened its doors almost one week after a deadly shooting claimed the lives of two people and injured six others on Sunday. The Native American-owned casino opened its doors on Friday morning, according to a social media post made on Wednesday.

A massive explosion caused a fire to break out at a Chevron facility in El Segundo, in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday evening.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has threatened to cut state funding to any universities, public or private, in the state that sign President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara spent lavishly on travel across the country and around the world, billing taxpayers for California Highway Patrol protection, while missing key meetings in the state.

An incredible amount of silver and gold coins have been found over 300 years after a Spanish fleet sank off Florida’s Treasure Coast.

More than 100 farmers in Minnesota showed up to help one of their own after a serious medical diagnosis.

A California coffee shop owner’s support for Charlie Kirk drew heavy backlash until her community and people across the nation learned of the situation.

Two jets collided while taxiing at LaGuardia Airport in New York late Wednesday, leaving one person with a minor injury.

A major vehicle crash left beer cans and kegs scattered all over the roadway early Tuesday in the Irwindale area of California.

A veteran and his family received the gift of a lifetime on Friday in Venice, Florida, after a 2022 hurricane took their home.

Officials in the state of Oregon and the city of Portland, an area ravaged by the domestic terrorist group Antifa,  are taking legal action against President Donald Trump’s administration to keep National Guard troops out of the city.

Fans got into a violent fight in the stands during a football game between the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia on Saturday.

A search and rescue effort is underway for more potential victims after a flash flood in southern Arizona took at least four lives and unleashed 1000 potentially dangerous propane tanks into the surging waters.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) spent all day on social media Saturday, defending his incendiary claim that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is a “fascist.”

A woman is sharing the story of the circumstances that reconnected her with the man who helped search for her when she was a missing teen.

A woman has been arrested in connection with a newborn who was discovered alive in an apartment complex dumpster in Austin, Texas, last week, police said. 

A city councilwoman representing a Oklahoma City suburb has resigned this week after her Facebook comment telling a Trump supporter to commit suicide went viral.

Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Meija said Wednesday that the city had wasted millions of dollars on outside audits of its homelessness program rather than using his office for free — then ignored the results.