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A heroic California dad saved his five-year-old son from a vicious mountain lion attack over Labor Day weekend, the victim’s family said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has called a “special session” of the state legislature to pass bills deal with high gas prices — but Democrats on either side of the state capitol cannot agree on whether to have the session at all.

Hundreds of homes in the coastal Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes have lost power due to a slow landslide that has resulted in several houses being deemed unsafe for occupancy.

A former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and her husband were arrested Tuesday, according to a law enforcement official.

A couple in Phoenix, Arizona, survived when a car crashed into their house as they were eating dinner on Friday evening.

A missing three-year-old boy in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was found safe thanks to law enforcement’s use of a thermal drone.

The baby girl was born on July 30 and is now in the custody of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, state officials announced.

A 54-year-old man is accused of attacking another man with a machete while they were on a Bronx subway train Saturday just after 1:00 a.m.

A reported 10,000 hotel workers in several cities across America are on strike in a push for better wages and a reversal of staffing cuts.

Seven people, including at least two children, were killed, and dozens more were wounded when a bus crashed in Mississippi.

A New York woman’s missing wedding ring was returned by a Good Samaritan who tirelessly searched for it on the beach.

A California woman has died after a suicidal man jumped from a Los Angeles-area highway overpass, landing on her and her husband’s vehicle.

Police arrested Sheridan Dirk Fogle after a woman’s remains were found underneath his backyard fire pit in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Rapper Fatman Scoop, whose real name was Isaac Freeman, died at 53 after collapsing at a concert in Hamden, Connecticut, on Friday.

A couple in Clearwater, Florida, is thankful to be alive and grateful to a helper who seemingly came out of nowhere.

A random stranger with a “Rambo-style knife” stabbed a New York City subway rider in an unprovoked attack, police told the New York Post. 

Dozens of train cars derailed in North Dakota on Wednesday night due to extreme winds blowing from a tornado, officials said.

The City of San Francisco, where Vice President Kamala Harris started her political career, is set to evaluate roughly 100 monuments to determine whether they should be removed or replaced.

A South Carolina mother was arrested in connection with the May fentanyl death of her ten-month-old baby Aminah Gathers, Live 5 News reported on Monday.

A California liquor store worker was forced to pull out a firearm to defend himself from a mob of young men attacking him to get in the shop.

The San Diego Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to support 14 bills making their way through the California legislature to provide reparations for slavery, even though California entered the Union in 1850 as a free state.

A man in Indiana conspired to poison his wife’s Coca-Cola with drugs so she would die and he could marry her daughter, per court documents.

A man is accused of approaching a woman from behind and strangling her in the lobby of her apartment building in Brooklyn.

A reported 100 vehicles showed up to rally outside a high school in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Monday after students were told they could not fly the American flag.

Prosecutors in Italy are investigating the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people, on possible charges including manslaughter, his lawyer said Monday.

Five people in Indiana were electrocuted in a freak accident while swimming in a backyard pool, local police said.

A feud between two families from Honduras erupted in gunfire, resulting in three dead in a parking lot in Lawrence, Indiana, on August 19.

An unidentified American was deported from Colombia after being accused of kicking and punching an airplane.

Icelandic rescuers worked by hand Monday to cut through the remnants of a collapsed ice cave as they searched for two tourists missing for more than 24 hours since a glacier in the southeastern part of the island caved in, killing one person and severely injuring another.

One person was killed and another hospitalized recently in Vallejo, California, amid illegal car “sideshows” that have been plaguing the streets.

The Port of Seattle and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) experienced a “possible cyberattack” on Saturday that caused significant issues for travelers.

A miniature that won third place at the Kentucky State Fair was removed from display after officials realized the subtle meaning behind it.

Prosecutors in Italy have opened an investigation into multiple manslaughter after a superyacht capsized off the coast of Sicily.

A head-on train collision in Boulder, Colorado, injured both conductors, triggered power outages, and caused concerns of a fuel leak.

Police are voicing concerns about South American and Romanian crime rings from California that target small towns for “distraction thefts.”

A driver cursed at pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to obstruct his vehicle on Thursday night outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.