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A California man was charged last Wednesday with blowing up two Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) transformers, causing power outages to households in the San Francisco area in December and January.

A motorcyclist in Florida was rammed by a truck Friday while allegedly attempting to evade law enforcement.

Community members are blessing a mother who walks over an hour to her job every morning in Spring Lake, Michigan.

A bar in Sacramento did not fight back after being criticized for showing a Harry Potter video game during business hours.

An eight-year-old boy helped raise tens of thousands of dollars for his favorite Waffle House server after finding out the man lived in a motel room with his family.

A Washington woman who works at Boeing has been identified as the winner of a Powerball jackpot after purchasing a ticket once the jackpot reached $747 million. 

A 31-year-old Colorado woman who is accused of maintaining a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy, reportedly becoming pregnant as a result, has accepted a plea deal that comes with no prison time.

A man jumped into action to help a fellow citizen when he stopped near the Potomac River in Washington, DC, on Friday night.

Deputies with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office in Florida took swift action recently when a citizen was in extreme danger.

Memphis, Tennessee, has experienced a lot of problems, but one man is determined to see things change for the better.

A man recently dug up a quahog clam believed to be 214-years-old at Alligator Point, Florida, and gave it a clever name.

A woman from Pennsylvania who has been missing since 1992 was found in Puerto Rico, and her family is overjoyed.

A video shows three men allegedly attempting to rob a Texas air conditioner repairman at gunpoint while he was working on the roof of a gas station.

A recently unsealed search warrant lists more items authorities found inside Bryan Kohberger’s parents’ home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, following his arrest in the murder case of four University of Idaho students. 

A Missouri woman hatched a nine-month-long plot to donate a kidney to her ailing father over his repeated objections.

Seven passengers on a flight to Europe late Wednesday were transported to hospitals when the plane hit “significant turbulence,” leaving the aircraft’s interior trashed.

Snow fell over Hollywood shortly after midday on Wednesday, with flurries on Mt. Hollywood in Griffith Park.

Thousands of residents remain trapped in their communities — and even their homes — in the San Bernardino mountains near Los Angeles, as snow continued to fall on the region into early Wednesday morning.

Los Angeles may experience its coldest weather in 18 years if Wednesday’s temperatures remain, as predicted, below 60 degrees, completing an eight-day streak that has not been seen in the city since the winter of 2005.

A Kentucky high school sophomore, recently adopted by his basketball coach, made the shot of a lifetime on Friday.

Surveillance footage appears to show multiple female assailants beating a New York City cashier on Sunday, allegedly in retaliation for an earlier dispute.

Authorities say they have finally identified a California woman found in a refrigerator 27 years ago with the help of DNA technology.

The Nevada State Democratic Party (NSDP) is in turmoil two years after Democrat Socialist-backed officials were elected to top positions within the party.

A Kentucky man who was in custody after allegedly fatally shooting three law enforcement officers died in jail in an apparent suicide. 

A movement to have eastern Oregon be absorbed by more conservative Idaho is gaining traction as citizens are fed up with leftist laws.

An Ohio woman celebrated her 100th birthday and launched a book at a Columbus Library on February 17.

A Chicago Man has been accused of committing a string of robberies by arranging meetings via Facebook Marketplace.

A 67-year-old Michigan resident got the surprise of a lifetime when he accidentally bought a pair of Fantasy 5 tickets for the same drawing.

Another blizzard is set to hit California’s interior Sierra Nevada mountain range, just days after a similar storm brought rain and snow to the entire state, from the northern coast to the foothills of Southern California.

A couple in Southeast Portland, Oregon, said Tuesday that a fire originating from an abandoned home next door, occupied by squatters, nearly spread to their property.

A New York City man was thrown off the roof of his own vehicle when it flipped over during an apparent car theft Monday night.

A freight train operated by Norfolk Southern derailed in Lexington, North Carolina, early on Saturday.

A couple in Arizona got the surprise of their life when they discovered 100 years of another family’s memories.

An 11-year-old sixth grader in Windham, Maine, read aloud during a recent school board meeting from a book that shocked him and adults.

A group working to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell (D) has reportedly collected the signatures needed to put her second term at risk, the news coming as the city endures rampant crime.

A middle school teacher saved a man who uses a wheelchair from a vehicle just before it was engulfed in flames in Manchester, Connecticut.