California firefighters worked in worsening heat Monday to contain a forest fire outside Yosemite National Park while colleagues mourned one of their own who was killed in a bulldozer accident on the fire line.
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Gale-fanned wildfires raged through holiday resorts near Greece’s capital, killing at least 20 people by early Tuesday and injuring more than 104, including 11 in serious condition, in the deadliest blaze to hit the country in more than a decade.
The husband of adult film performer Stormy Daniels has filed for divorce in Texas.
An excessive heat warning was issued for a broad swath of the southwestern U.S. Monday with temperatures expected to approach 120 degrees (almost 49 Celsius) this week in what forecasters say could prove to be the hottest days of the year.
Authorities in Northern California say the man arrested in the fatal stabbing of a teenager at a subway station is a violent felon on parole.
The duck boat that capsized and sank last week on a sightseeing cruise was raised from a Missouri lake Monday, more than three days after the accident that killed 17 people near the tourist town of Branson.
Officials say Ken Block and Alex Gelsomino escaped unharmed after their rally car rolled twice and crashed into flames.
A man’s feud with his grandmother turned into a bizarre and deadly weekend confrontation that ended with a supermarket worker dead and dozens of people held hostage in a store miles away.
A man walked along a Toronto street firing a handgun into restaurants and cafes, shooting 14 people and killing two before dying after an exchange of gunfire with police.
A spokeswoman for a Maryland beach town says a woman has been accidentally impaled in the chest by a beach umbrella.
Mondelez Global says it’s voluntarily recalling some of its Ritz Cracker products over potential risk of salmonella.
One of Nashville’s most historic buildings disappeared from the edge of the Tennessee city’s skyline in a matter of seconds.
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft have suspended a driver who recorded hundreds of St. Louis-area passengers without their permission and livestreamed the video.
A 3-year-old boy suffered severe burns on his face and arm during a suspected acid attack in England that investigators think was deliberate, police said Sunday.
The temperature in a city north of Tokyo reached 41.1 degrees Celsius (106 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, the highest ever recorded in Japan.
