Meat Loaf’s friend, Marc Lobliner, has a beef with the way the rock star’s death has been dragged into the COVID-19 culture war. ...

Lindy Simmons, 20, Christopher Simmons, 17, and Kamryn Simmons, 15, died after their vehicle was hit by a wrong-way driver on I-49 in St. Landry Parish. ...

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. ...

The anonymous tipster who led cops to the parents of accused Michigan high-school shooter Ethan Crumbley is set to reap a reward of up to $20,000, a new report says. ...

The parents of accused Michigan school gunman Ethan Crumbley are locked up in the same jail as their teenage son, authorities said. ...

Robin Appleby, who has led the prestigious, $50,000-a-year American School in London since 2017, is allegedly exiting to “focus on her own wellbeing and that of her family." ...

The alleged unprovoked attack occurred the afternoon of Nov. 17, when four black girls harassed and then struck a group of four Asian students, three male and one female, according to reports. ...

Sen. Ted Cruz wished his fellow member of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “Happy Birthday” on Wednesday, just weeks after the dueling duo issued their latest attacks at one another. ...

A stunning number of children in the US were orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic and the catastrophic toll hit harder on Black and Hispanic families, a new study suggests. ...