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It took 14 days for Adam Long to paint an American flag across the roof of a hardware store in Nashville, Indiana.

A Nigerian chef is getting tons of attention and praise for a cooking marathon in which she tried to set a world record.

A South Elgin, Illinois, girl who vanished years ago was located in North Carolina on Saturday and will be reunited with her family.

Residents of the Los Angeles neighborhood Encino were shocked after hundreds of bees swarmed the neighborhood, leaving at least two injured — one of whom walked away with “dozens of bee stings.”

Two people were killed and four others injured during a shooting between rival motorcycle gangs in Augusta, Georgia, Saturday night.

A 40-foot mural honoring the nation’s veterans will soon be placed at the Veterans Memorial Park in Davenport, Iowa, thanks to talented citizens.

A young woman in Austin, Texas, has reached a major goal thanks to hard work and determination that is inspiring others.

Another major retailer is leaving downtown San Francisco — this time Coco Republic, an Australian furniture store that is leaving the iconic Union Square less than a year after opening a flagship location there.

A California man says he’s “so lucky to be alive at this moment” after his Tesla electric vehicle began shaking and subsequently caught fire during a highway drive over the weekend.

A Waymo autonomous taxi caused chaos navigating a fire scene in San Francisco, exposing the challenges driverless vehicles face in reacting to unusual situations and commands from first responders. Police officers desperately worked to stop the driverless vehicle from running over a hose being used by firefighters to put out a fire. Body camera footage captured one officer explaining, “Got a bit of a pickle. I got an autonomous vehicle, the Waymo, it’s inching slowly and closely to one of the main water lines that the SF Fire just charged. Can’t run it over,” he says. “I don’t trust this AI.”

Measure ULA, a tax on high-end properties passed by Los Angeles voters in 2022, has flopped after just one month in operation, bringing sales of luxury homes to a halt while raising little money for affordable housing.

A brawl between several men broke out Sunday afternoon at The Grove shopping center in Beverly Hills, one of the fanciest malls in Los Angeles.

Two Big Lots managers in a town outside Bakersfield, California, were fired after following an alleged shoplifter out of the store into the store’s parking lot.

A family dog attacked and killed a 9-month-old baby in Iowa and injured the infant’s grandmother, according to officials.

A woman in Centennial, Colorado, was not sure what to do when she moved into a home in April only to realize it was infested with snakes.

A man is being called a hero for saving a baby from being hit by a car in Hesperia, California.

Burger King is planning to shut down 400 U.S. locations as it competes with McDonald’s and Chipotle.

A group of Texas parents wants action taken after first-graders allegedly forced a classmate to perform a sex act at Plainview South Elementary.

A dramatic decline in sales tax revenues from pre-pandemic levels is a sign of the ongoing retail collapse in downtown San Francisco, the result of a pandemic exodus, as well as mass looting events and urban decay.

Officials arrested and identified a suspect connected to the murder of a woman recently found dead on a Phoenix hiking trail.

Passengers experienced something frightening yet incredible on Tuesday during an inter-island flight from Molokai, Hawaii.

A California woman, who was homeless just six years ago, got the surprise of a lifetime after winning $5 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket she bought at Walmart.

A man from Dildo, Newfoundland, took a photo Thursday of an iceberg that has caused people to blush and laugh.

Seven bodies have been found in the backyard of a property in Henryetta, Oklahoma, and authorities have named two missing teenage victims among them.

Six drivers died and more than 30 were injured Monday on Interstate 55 after dozens of cars and trucks slammed into each other during a dust storm near Springfield in central Illinois.

Marine Corps veteran Curtis Sollars and his wife Connie have been living out of a suitcase in a motel for six months in Mannford, Oklahoma — a rural town along the Arkansas River Basin — because their home was destroyed in the 2019 Arkansas River Floods.

A head adviser to Democrat New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has quit after being accused of developing a toxic reputation on the job.

A traveler at the Boston airport was arrested for allegedly carrying a dangerous weapon after TSA agents found a “vampire straw” in his carry-on bag.

An upset fast food worker in Chicago apparently went on a rampage through the eatery after allegedly not receiving his paycheck.

Video taken at the scene of a train derailment near De Soto, Wisconsin, shows the wreckage after the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon.

A Houston woman allegedly hit a man with her car during a fatal collision while she was reportedly over the legal alcohol limit on April 19.

The suspects accused of throwing a rock that killed a motorist pledged a “blood brothers” oath to keep their actions a secret, officials said.

A woman near Atlanta, Georgia, whose pit bull named Chief disappeared in 2017 recently got the surprise of her life.

A little boy with autism was saved from train tracks in New York on April 6 thanks to the quick thinking of transit workers.

A man in Rowan County, North Carolina, is accused of engaging in sexual activity with a dog belonging to him and his girlfriend.

Officials have charged a Pennsylvania teen who allegedly put sewing needles into items while working at a grocery store.