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A man is taking legal action against an Outback Steakhouse restaurant in Ocala, Florida, after he was allegedly injured while using its restroom.

More than a hundred volunteers, family members, and law enforcement personnel are widening the search for 19‑year‑old Camila Mendoza‑Olmos, who vanished from her Northwest San Antonio neighborhood on Christmas Eve.

A newborn baby boy described as only “hours old” was safely surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 22.

A huge winter storm forecast over the next few days is supposed to hit the Dakotas, the Great Lakes, and the New England area with snow, high winds, and rain.

An alleged drug trafficker is behind bars after police in Kentucky confiscated 55 pounds of suspected methamphetamine wrapped as Christmas presents in the trunk of his car.

Officials are seeking the death penalty for a man accused of stabbing a woman to death outside a Dollar General store in Fruitland, Florida.

Family members, with the help of more than 100 friends and volunteers, continue to search for 19-year-old Camila Mendoza-Olmos, who has been missing since Christmas Eve. Mendoza was last seen early Wednesday just outside her home on the Northwest side of Bexar County.

Employees at a Louisiana factory got mind-boggling bonuses after their boss sold the company earlier this year.

A grandfather tragically died at a McDonald’s drive-thru on Tuesday in Grand Island, Nebraska, in what a law enforcement official said was “a freak accident.”

Christmas will be extra special this year for a Texas family who will be bringing their daughter home from the neonatal intensive care unit after more than 300 days.

A church in Manvel, Texas put on a Christmas display with 1,000 drones showing the Christmas story and the life of Jesus Christ.

A 25-year-old man with a lengthy criminal history was released on bond a few days before allegedly being involved in a fatal shooting at a transit station in Cleveland, Ohio.

Christmas shoppers at a grocery store in Burleson, Texas, received their holiday goods for free this week after a computer glitch brought checkout lines to halt.

Authorities say a Mexican Navy King Air carrying eight people—including a pediatric burn patient en route to Shriners Children’s Hospital—crashed into Galveston Bay Monday afternoon amid dense coastal fog. Two survivors were pulled from the wreckage as Texas DPS, the Coast Guard, and local agencies launched a large‑scale rescue and recovery operation.

The case of a transgender murderer in Utah took another startling twist as convicted killer Mia Bailey told a judge he has converted to Islam behind bars and deserves the death penalty after he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

A family cat, missing for more than a year after it was lost during Hurricane Helene, evoked one of its nine lives and was reunited with its family in North Carolina — with the help of a feline microchip.

A snake wrangler was deployed to remove a Burmese python in a Miami-Dade residential neighborhood after a resident out for a walk saw the snake hiding inside a palm next to a home. “Oh gosh, oh my gosh,” an unidentified

A massive power outage in San Francisco that darkened 130,000 homes Saturday was further complicated as self-driving cars stopped in the middle of the street, triggering extensive traffic jams.

A teacher in Idaho whose family was forced out of their home after a dangerous incident has received a heartfelt gift from a Secret Santa.

A single mother in East Idaho who has endured extreme health challenges got a huge Christmas surprise from a Secret Santa with a generous heart.

A group of majestic bald eagles gave a man quite a thrill recently in Old Town, Maine, as he was on his way to work.

A woman accused of shoplifting in Hartford, Wisconsin, arrived at a Walmart on December 6 and bumped into the people she most wanted to avoid.

The 400th Safe Haven Baby Box nationwide opened at a Texas hospital on Friday afternoon.

Police said a Dollar Tree employee found a woman’s body inside the store’s freezer on Sunday in Miami, Florida.

An apparent propane leak in a U-Haul truck resulted in a devastating explosion that took the life of a 61-year-old Idaho man who was in the vehicle.

Officials are investigating after a United Airlines flight lost an engine Saturday on takeoff and also sparked a fire on a Virginia runway.

A purple-haired DoorDash driver in southern Indiana was arrested after being caught on doorbell video allegedly spraying her food delivery with pepper spray. The act was discovered after the late-night delivery from Arby’s left a customer choking and vomiting after

A young woman in east Idaho got the surprise of her life when East Idaho News’s Nate Eaton showed up on her doorstep to give her a new car from a Secret Santa.

Santa’s job to determine who was naughty or nice at a Christmas celebration on Nantucket was made more conspicuous by a street brawl that broke out in the upscale Massachusetts enclave among some people who showed up for his arrival.

A man recently became a hero to a young girl for making sure she made it safely to school when he saw her walking alone in freezing cold weather in Detroit, Michigan.

A woman targeted in a chemical attack while walking in a Savannah, Georgia, park on Wednesday evening is recovering from her injuries.

A family in east Idaho received huge blessings from a Secret Santa after a terrible accident severely damaged their home.

A doorbell camera caught a house exploding in northern California after a construction crew apparently damaged a gas line, the blast injuring six people and resulting in a three-alarm blaze.

An autopsy report made public Wednesday revealed that a Wisconsin graduate student who mysteriously vanished accidentally drowned in the Mississippi River.