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A young woman in Texas has finally found the home and love she deserves after 2,726 days in the foster care system.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo (D) took to social media to berate the county’s law enforcement officials and her fellow members of the County Commissioners Court over a state-mandated pay parity raise. In Texas, a county judge is the chief executive officer of the county.

A teenager in Winchester, Tennessee, claimed she was defending her younger brother after she ran onto a football field at a middle school game and allegedly tackled a player on Tuesday.

Two experienced Massachusetts fishermen caught a whopper of a fish on Wednesday that left them in disbelief.

A Brooklyn grandmother who vanished without a trace has been found dead in Las Vegas, but questions about her mysterious disappearance remain.

New Yorkers don’t expect to have a day at the shore capped by a tornado, but that’s what happened when a funnel cloud scraped two Long Island beach clubs early Thursday evening.

Forty-eight-year-old U.S. Assistant Attorney Andrew Haden was found dead Wednesday in a federal building in San Diego, California.

Researchers believe they may have found a sunken treasure-laden ship from the 17th century belonging to King Charles I.

A high school athletic director in New Jersey has been accused of peeping into a young female neighbor’s bedroom window in the dark of night.

Three people have been the victims of recent beaver attacks in Maryland, and one of those individuals was a little girl.

In a homicide reminiscent of a macabre Alfred Hitchcock film, a Florida man has been charged with murdering and dismembering his 71-year-old stepfather, stuffing his remains in suitcases, and scattering the grisly luggage along a roadway in Orlando.

Six people are dead and many more are missing as torrential rain spawned destructive high water across Indiana in what authorities are calling “once-in-a-lifetime floods.”

Former Democrat-turned-Independent Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema has been open in court about her sexual relationship with a former bodyguard who is now her boyfriend.

Authorities in Washington have rescued 60 cats and kittens that had been living on an abandoned sailboat for quite some time.

A Kentucky couple were arrested after a 1-year-old boy choked to death on his own dirty diaper in a garage filled with hazards and filth.

A tractor-trailer smacked into a highway overpass and flipped on its side Monday afternoon in New York, causing a dangerous situation for other drivers on the roadway.

California-based Taylor Farms is recalling certain products in some states due to fears of possible salmonella contamination, the news coming after the producer faced criticism over a cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Police arrested a man with a lengthy criminal history who is now accused of randomly sucker-punching a 61-year-old woman in Miami, Florida, on Thursday.

Passengers in the deadly boat accident on Saturday in New York Harbor were celebrating a woman’s birthday when the tragic incident happened.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) activists in coastal Wilmington, North Carolina, are upset that city and state officials removed their propaganda bus stop benches this month.

A mother and her boyfriend in Oakland, California, are facing child abuse charges after her five-year-old son suffered fentanyl and cocaine poisoning.

A shipwreck believed to be over 2,000 years old has been discovered off the coast of Sicily near Mazara del Vallo, and the site features incredible items from the Roman period.

A pair of business owners in St. Petersburg, Florida, are accused of using 1,500 mothballs to deter “state-listed imperiled” birds from nesting on St. Pete Beach, an area behind their businesses.

A trans-Canadian flight was canceled this week because a toddler decided not to buckle up, causing a headache for passengers and crew members.

A woman and an infant are dead after a 22 -foot-boat loaded with 14 people capsized in the New York Harbor near the Statue of Liberty late Saturday night.

A couple of Florida cops hitched an unexpected ride when a suspect they had stopped sped off with one officer trapped in his car and another unable to let go of the vehicle.

An unlikely hero rescued a Texas family and their pets from a fire that could have turned their lives upside down.

A North Carolina black man accused of randomly punching a white woman on a Charlotte sidewalk, and then chasing her while repeatedly calling her the N-word, has been in trouble before.

An elderly man in California received a touching delivery on Wednesday more than two decades after it was mailed to him.

A man with a lengthy criminal history has been accused of assaulting women in North Carolina while filming the disturbing incidents.

A water main burst in the Hollywood Hills on Thursday, sending a stream of water rushing down a residential street.

Family and community members gathered to remember two-year-old Aryana Trevino Martinez on a warm Tuesday evening near Belle Ellen Drive in the Alamo City. The event took place near the site where searchers found the missing toddler unresponsive in a brushy area on Sunday night.

Southern California Republicans are furious with the Orange County Fair, which not only denied the GOP a booth this year but is featuring in its art room display a photo that essentially calls for the death of President Donald Trump.

A sheepdog stepped in and helped first responders with a helicopter rescue during an emergency in Laguna Beach, California.