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A FedEx driver was assaulted by a package thief as he was making a stop at a Columbus, Ohio, home, and the ordeal was caught on camera. 

Forty-three monkeys escaped from a research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, on Wednesday and officials are working to recapture them.

The “Secret Santa” of eastern Idaho delivered a generous donation to a family who just went through a high-risk pregnancy and now have a baby with a birth defect. 

A young mother in east Idaho named Rachael who is facing difficulty recently got a big surprise from a Secret Santa.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, the first black woman elected to the job, is facing defeat after early returns showed Levi’s heir Daniel Lurie with a commanding lead in the 2024 election.

Voters in Oakland, California, are poised to recall left-wing Mayor Sheng Thao, who has faced criticisms for her radical policies and is implicated in a federal corruption probe.

A nearly forgotten veterans memorial is getting some much-needed attention from citizens in Westbrook, Maine.

Singer Jelly Roll and his team made a caring gesture on Friday in Charleston, West Virginia, to neighbors in need.

A mother and her two young children are dead after the woman leapt off Niagara Falls and plunged nearly 200 feet with them, New York State Police said.

A dead newborn baby girl was found in a Safe Haven Baby Box in Idaho in October, police announced this week.

A mother and her daughter were fatally shot in their New Jersey home and the suspect is still on the loose, police said.

A lithium-ion battery recycling plant caught on fire and exploded in Fredericktown, Missouri, on Wednesday, and emergency crews rushed to the scene.

Pepsi abruptly shut down its only plant in Chicago on Monday and workers are reeling from the news.

The community of Asheville, North Carolina, is looking down a long road to recovery after Hurricane Helene battered the area.

A Texas 12-year-old suffering from terminal cancer was honored by Alabama police with a ceremony naming him a deputy chief — bringing his total number of honorary law enforcement titles to over 900.

The toddler was alive when she was discovered but later died at the hospital, Galveston Police Chief Doug Balli said.

The man who brutalized and killed a three-year-old girl in Rensselaer County, New York, has died in prison.

At least one person was killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway’s northern coast derailed Thursday with 55 people on board, police said.

A dog protected an elderly Maine woman who got lost in the woods for four nights after her husband fell down.

Police said a prisoner with a lengthy rap sheet recently escaped in a luxury vehicle that was outside a hospital in Miami, Florida.

Heart-pounding video shows police officers in Seattle, Washington, saving a man in the nick of time on October 7.

An educator from Anoka, Minnesota, is getting tons of attention for his giant prize-winning pumpkin. 

At least seven people were tragically killed on Saturday in Georgia amid a cultural gathering when part of a ferry dock collapsed on Sapelo Island.

Residents of a Vermont city plagued by rampant homelessness and drug use are speaking out against the “lack of respect” shown for law-abiding citizens, and complaining that they cannot go outside at night due to the crime.

A California veteran was apparently removed from a Delta Air Lines flight on Wednesday because of the shirt she was wearing.

A man thought to have been killed in a bear attack in the Big Sky area of Montana is now believed to be the victim of a homicide.

The mother of a newborn baby who was discovered dead in a trash bin on the University of Tampa has been charged in the infant’s death.

Freight is piling up at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, as freight rail delays hit a two-year high, owing to record levels of imports on the West Coast, as strikes and the Houthi threat have diverted East Coast shipping.

A mother watched helplessly as her two children were trapped upside down on an amusement ride at the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock on Saturday.

Residents of Illinois will be able to renew their driver’s licenses and get new vehicle stickers while they are grocery shopping following the installation of several “fast lane” Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) kiosks in stores, officials announced Thursday.

Countless Floridians continue to rebuild across the state in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, but one animal rescue, Furry Friends, is reeling after a tornado ripped through their ranch, resulting in a “total loss.”

Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard (D) is running for reelection despite ongoing investigations into her administration and spending.

A shoe store called Sole Bros 513 in Cincinnati, Ohio, is reeling after being hit by apparent thieves who took items including single shoes.

The father of a baby girl named Saij Bonner, who ingested a deadly amount of fentanyl in 2021 while she was in his care, has been sentenced.

The Central Fire Station in Olde Towne Slidell, Louisiana, is set to be the home of the state’s first Safe Haven Baby Box.

Protesters gathered outside Kellogg’s headquarters in Michigan on Tuesday to push for changes in the ingredients of some of its cereals.