The US death toll from COVID-19 topped 800,000 on Tuesday, a once-unimaginable figure seen as doubly tragic, given that more than 200,000 of those lives were lost after the vaccine became available practically for the asking last spring.

Firefighters rescued residents as a powerful storm cell in Southern California caused flash flooding throughout the region.

Ryan Mays, the Navy sailor charged with setting the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard last year, was “disgruntled” after dropping out of SEAL training.

At least 35 people have been hospitalized in Florida for severe bleeding after smoking synthetic marijuana that they bought from local drug dealers, officials announced.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is fully vaccinated, is receiving medical treatment for “mild COVID-19 symptoms” after he tested positive on Sunday.

Francisco Starks who was at MCP Candle Factory in Mayfield as part of a work release program, was injured in the twister and subsequently treated at Jackson Purchase Medical Center,

Rescuers climbed over the toppled wood and then reached one of the five horses inside, comforting the animal as it lay on the ground.

Two Massachusetts State Police troopers have been suspended without pay for turning a hallway at the state police academy into a makeshift “Slip ‘N Slide” game.

Jose Manuel Martinez Garcia, 36, was hit with 14 counts in connection with a series of brutal attacks in the Coachella Valley area that began last summer, officials announced Thursday.

Jurors in the trial of former Minnesota Officer Kim Potter saw video footage of her hysterical reaction to her mistakenly shooting Daunte Wright with a gun instead of a Taser Friday.