Nationwide, about 4% of the U.S. is in moderate to extreme drought, one of the smallest footprints since the drought monitor was created 20 years ago.
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Superintendent announces departures of chief of staff and communications chief along with the hirings of a new chief of staff and chief operations officer.
The drug seizure is the latest in a series of large cocaine busts along the East Coast.
Bus driver Donald Hendricks, 74, who died in the fire along with his passenger Megan Klindt, 16, had mobility issues that limited his ability to evacuate the bus.
The man’s roommate told police she lost track of her dog as she moved her belongings out of the home.
The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents voted Tuesday to pay the 3 percent raises even though it will cause a $6.4 million budget shortfall.
The news came as the Pentagon is deploying an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran.
Jason Wright’s resignation from his fourth-grade teaching position at Dearing Elementary, effective last month, comes as he and the district await trial in two lawsuits.
Alabama investigators say a man kept a caged “attack squirrel” in his apartment and fed it methamphetamine to ensure it stayed aggressive.
Authorities say they’ve found the body of a woman and her 9-year-old twin daughters after she intentionally drove a car carrying them into a southwestern Michigan river.
Boeing announced at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday that International Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways and other carriers, signed a letter of intent for 200 Boeing 737 aircraft.
Charitable giving by individual Americans in 2018 suffered its biggest drop since the Great Recession of 2008-09, in part because of Republican-backed changes in tax policy, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans’ giving patterns.
Dr. Kristen Averyt’s resignation after two years leading the organization will be effective June 30, according to the Nevada System of Higher Education.
Planned Parenthood is building the stage for another possible fight over abortion in Alabama: a large women’s clinic that’s under construction despite the state’s passage of a near-total ban on abortions.
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been transferred to a correctional facility in New York but will remain in federal custody while he faces state fraud charges, a Justice Department official said Tuesday.