A 33-year-old man broke into a Yeshiva University dorm in New York City early Friday and used matches intended for a Hanukkah menorah to set three fires in the building while students were sleeping, city Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro said.
Four people, including a police officer and three people believed to be civilians, were killed during an hours-long standoff and firefight Tuesday between two suspects and law enforcement in Jersey City, New Jersey, authorities said.
The US Office of Special Counsel issued a warning to Department of Housing and Urban Development Regional Administrator Lynne Patton for violating the
It's long been known for its grandiose architecture, lashings of green spaces and traditional coffee shops -- and now Vienna is building itself a reputation for something even more covetable.
Guus van Kesteren moved to Delray Beach 23 years ago.
Bryce Thomas' toy prehistoric reptiles nosedived into the cold, soapy tap water in the kitchen sink, scooping up schools of imaginary fish, when his mother started weeping in the living room.
Twenty people were killed and more than two dozen were injured in a mass shooting at an El Paso shopping center on Saturday, according to Texas and local authorities.
Health officials are warning that seven towns in southeastern Massachusetts are at "high risk" for a potentially fatal mosquito-borne virus known as Eastern equine encephalitis or EEE.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday it is "unbelievable" President Donald Trump attacks Americans and US cities after Trump tweeted Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' Baltimore district is
Almost a month's worth of rain fell in just one hour in Washington D.C., Monday, bringing a halt to the morning rush hour.
After two strong earthquakes hit Southern California over the Fourth of July holiday, one name kept appearing in the news again and again: Dr. Lucy Jones.
A flash flood warning has been issued for the Washington, D.C., metro area until 1:45 p.m. Monday by the National Weather Service.
Ridgecrest is a town in a California desert where the 28,000 residents are used to earthquakes.
A federal agency has forced open a gate in the privately funded wall near the US-Mexico border, saying the group that built it didn't follow proper permitting procedures.
The shooter who opened fire indiscriminately in a Virginia Beach city building Friday afternoon, killing 12 people and sending at least four others to the hospital, was a disgruntled employee, a Virginia government source briefed on the investigation told CNN.
Five dogs connected to the mauling death this month of a 14-year-old boy will be euthanized, a Massachusetts town council has voted.
Targeted ransomware attacks on local US government entities -- cities, police stations and schools -- are on the rise, costing localities millions as some pay off the perpetrators in an effort to untangle themselves and restore vital systems.
When Katsunori and Kaori Osaka had their first child, they were living in a cramped apartment in Nagoya, a city of more than 2 million people in central Japan.
Four years ago, Naoko and Takayuki Ida were given a house. For free.
A city commissioner was arrested nearly three weeks after police say he shot and killed a man who tried to shoplift a small ax from a military store, authorities said.
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Unemployment rates are dropping across Wisconsin.
Unemployment rates are dropping across Wisconsin.
Local unemployment rates dipped in most major Wisconsin cities and counties in July.
