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High school students in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, are working to fight infant abandonment by successfully bringing a Safe Haven Baby Box to their community.

A police officer was critically injured during a security motorcade for Vice President JD Vance on Friday in Maryville, Tennessee.

A father in Michigan was charged on Wednesday with murdering his three young sons, who disappeared years ago.

A double-decker bus crashed into a bus stop in Stockholm on Friday, killing three people and injuring three others, police said.

A teacher who is also a wife and mother of two young children in Idaho Falls, Idaho, got the surprise of her life recently thanks to a Secret Santa.

A newborn was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box at a fire station in Clermont County, Ohio. 

A woman in Idaho got a huge surprise recently when a Secret Santa heard she was in need of help after a cancer diagnosis.

A Texas father has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his toddler’s fentanyl death.

A LifeFlight helicopter crash has taken the life of one crew member and put two others in critical condition about 30 miles from Nashville, Tennessee.

Honda is recalling 406,000 of its vehicles due to a manufacturing problem that could cause the wheels to come off while on the road.

A woman is accused of throwing hot coffee on a McDonald’s worker in Buena Vista, Michigan, leaving other customers shocked.

Several people were killed when a driver crashed into them as they enjoyed a night out in a Tampa, Florida, neighborhood early Saturday.

A 43-year-old Illinois mother is accused of getting pregnant and having a child with a 14-year-old boy her daughter took as a date to a junior high dance.

A “Secret Santa” is giving $1 million to deserving people in eastern Idaho this holiday season, announced East Idaho News, which reports and administers the donations from the mysterious anonymous donor in the state.

A massive blast of cold weather is heading down from southwestern Canada and expected to sweep across the eastern United States in the next few days.

It is that special time of year again when a Secret Santa in eastern Idaho spreads Christmas cheer to people in need.

Officials are investigating after several people fell ill and buildings were evacuated when a suspicious package was opened at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Thursday.

The home of Miami Heat’s lead coach Erik Spoelstra went up in flames on Thursday in Miami-Dade, Florida, leaving extensive damage.

New York City mayoral candidate, socialist Zohran Mamdani, appeared to blame President Donald Trump for bomb threats at polling places in New Jersey on Tuesday as voters showed up to cast their ballots.

Several polling places in New Jersey were forced to shut down and relocate on Tuesday due to bomb threats on Election Day as voters arrived to cast their ballots.

Voting machines went down in three districts of New Jersey early Tuesday, which is Election Day, according to Early Vote Action’s Scott Presler.

Some Democrats are speculating that 85-year-old former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) may soon step into retirement.

A brave mother said she fatally shot one of the monkeys authorities have been looking for after they escaped an overturned truck in Mississippi.

A former MLB catcher voiced his disappointment Saturday after the Toronto Blue Jays lost the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers.  

San Francisco health officials are asking why they were not warned about elevated radiation levels detected last year at an inactive U.S. Navy shipyard in the city.

Five German mountaineers died after being hit by an avalanche in South Tyrol, in northern Italy, rescuers said on Sunday.

What could have been a fire that destroyed a museum has instead enriched it as an archeological dig at the 19th-century frontier tavern in Ohio unearths historical discoveries.

Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish posted a video in support of Proposition 50, the referendum Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is using to gerrymander California’s congressional districts — and to disenfranchise Republicans.

A Florida man has been found guilty of shooting and killing his pregnant girlfriend, who refused to get an abortion.

A newborn was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box for the first time in Wisconsin’s history since the state passed a law allowing the devices in 2023.

A teenager was arrested after fatally attacking a 52-year-old delivery driver inside a Chick-fil-A with a knife and hammer in the middle of the night in Illinois, police say.

A 93-year-old woman in Hixon, Tennessee, has proved it is never too late to give your life over to God.  

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) and Attorney General Rob Bonta are sending election monitors to monitor the U.S. Department of Justice monitors sent to observe California’s gerrymandering election.

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and other major airports around the country have suffered delays in recent days due to the Democrats’ shutdown of the federal government, which has lasted nearly four weeks.

Hurricane Melissa became a Category 5 storm early Monday and is forecast to cause extensive damage when it makes landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday.

Hurricane Melissa has been upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane as it threatens Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba while producing winds of 140 miles per hour after its wind speed doubled in under 24 hours.