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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning in an apparent targeted attack. Follow live news updates.

The five pairs of sneakers resting in front of a popular wooded trail serve as a daily reminder of the run Laken Riley never finished.

A mother’s agony: What Allyson Phillips has endured during the trial of the man accused of killing her daughter, Laken Riley

Bela Karolyi, the legendary and controversial Romanian American gymnastics coach who helped lead Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold, has died, USA Gymnastics announced. He was 82.

The opaque plumes of noxious smoke billowing out of a Georgia chemical plant are long gone. But the relentless effects of the BioLab fire in Conyers are still visible, residents say – from exacerbated rashes to mounting bills to nagging symptoms and piles of prescriptions.

After an inferno engulfed a BioLab industrial building, it shrouded neighborhoods in chemical smoke for days. Thousands of residents had to evacuate, and children couldn’t go to school for weeks. Now, Rockdale County is trying to oust BioLab from its site in Conyers, about 25 miles east of Atlanta.

The 8,000-acre Biltmore Estate, Asheville’s biggest attraction that welcomes 1.4 million visitors a year, has significant damage in some buildings after Helene ripped through Western North Carolina, the Biltmore said.

Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.

The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be innocent, leaving his fate in the hands of the US Supreme Court with less than 24 hours to go before he is scheduled to die by lethal injection.

The 14-year-old shooter who confessed to killing four people at Apalachee High School was allowed to leave his classroom with his belongings before returning with a rifle in his backpack, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.

A 14-year-old Apalachee High School student and his father, who are both charged in connection with the mass shooting at the Georgia school, appeared in court Friday, both declining to enter a plea to the charges against them.

By the time then-sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson gunned down a 36-year-old mother in her home, fellow law enforcement officers and residents in the Illinois communities he served had already raised a host of concerns about him.

The recent deaths of teen football players highlight the risks of the America’s most popular sport as the country enters Labor Day weekend and football season.

Phil Donahue, who flipped the script for daytime television by tackling controversial issues in front of a live audience, has died after a long illness, his family announced in a statement on Monday to People and NBC News.

The family of an Illinois mother gunned down in her home by a sheriff’s deputy wants a nationwide database of officers’ violations and mandatory, comprehensive background checks for law enforcement applicants, the family’s attorneys said Wednesday.

While California battles the fifth-largest wildfire in state history, a trio of wildfires near Denver has forced hundreds of evacuations and claimed at least one life. Here’s the latest on a barrage of blazes burning in several western states:

8 hours ago ... Four days after a faulty software update from a cybersecurity company unexpectedly brought down computers and technical systems across the ...

9 hours ago ... Three days after a computer update problem caused more than 5000 flight cancellations around the world in a single day, things are pretty ...

2 days ago ... Terrell Davis and his family were looking forward to vacationing in California when the NFL Hall of Famer was inexplicably handcuffed and ...

26 Jun 2024 ... A boy from New York journeyed to North Carolina for camp but did not survive his first night, authorities said. Now, his death is being ...