Five people have died following a hot-air balloon crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday.The balloon crashed into a power line around Central Avenue and Unser Boulevard, causing power to go out in the area, Albuquerque Police Department (APD) confirmed…
A swirling tornado of flames reaching 40,000 feet into the sky tore through a California city in 2018, leaving a veteran hotshot firefighter horrified.The fire tornado, which obliterated entire neighborhoods in Redding, California, during the massive Carr Fire, still haunts…
Othal Wallace, the man wanted for shooting Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor in the head Wednesday evening, was taken into custody at a property just outside of Atlanta around 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.The property is in a wooded…
The New York Police Department arrested an alleged gang member in a June 17 shooting in the Bronx that put two children in the line of gunfire, Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a news conference Friday.Michael Lopez, 27,…
Carl Nassib's coming out was casual, matter-of-fact and, evidenced by the ebullient smile he wore throughout the video in which he disclosed his sexuality, a release he'd long waited for.The laid-back nature of his announcement belies how exceedingly rare it…
One Saturday evening last December, as Peter and Lisa Marshall cuddled on the couch watching their favorite television show, Peter looked at Lisa and asked if she would marry him.What Peter, 56, didn't remember was that they were already married.Diagnosed…
The death toll in the Surfside, Florida, residential building collapse has risen to five, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a Saturday evening news conference."Today our search and rescue teams found another body in the rubble," Levine Cava…
There could be a new princess in Disney's royal court.Nearly two decades after Sarah Culberson discovered that her father was the chief of a village in Sierra Leone, the West Virginia native's life story could finally come to the big…
A passenger was injured Friday after jumping out of a United Express flight that was taxiing from a gate area at the Los Angeles International Airport, an LAX police spokesman told CNN.At about 7:10 p.m. local time, the man opened…
The man hailed as a hero for preventing further bloodshed after a gunman fatally shot a police officer in Arvada, Colorado, on Monday was himself fatally shot by police, Arvada police said in a statement Friday afternoon.Police say Johnny Hurley,…
The collapse of a high-rise condo tower in South Florida early Thursday morning has left at least four people dead and 159 more currently unaccounted for. Now, as the search for survivors continues, a critical question looms: What caused the…
George Floyd's family as well as activists and elected officials said Friday that Derek Chauvin's sentencing was a rare moment of accountability following a deadly police encounter.Bridgett Floyd, Floyd's sister and founder of the George Floyd Memorial Foundation, said the…
It's still not fully clear what caused an oceanfront condo tower in Surfside, Florida, to partially collapse, sending some units in the 12-story building plummeting to the ground.Experts are still looking to determine the exact contributing factors that led to…
George Floyd's family spoke in a Minnesota court Friday during the sentencing hearing for his killer, former police officer Derek Chauvin.The first to speak was Floyd's 7-year-old daughter, Gianna, on video."I ask about him all the time," she said. "I…
A county in Iowa was named after a slave-holding vice president. Now, it's named after the first Black woman to earn a PhD from the University of Iowa.The Board of Supervisors of Johnson County in Iowa, home to Iowa City…
Sounds offer hope, officials said Friday amid a frantic, fast-paced mission to find survivors trapped beneath the rubble of a partially collapsed condominium tower in Surfside, Florida.Though it's unclear how many people were in the portion of the 12-story building…
Five people were shot, one fatally, early Friday during an attempted robbery in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Officer Jeff Lee tells CNN.Around 2 a.m., three men in their 20s attempted to rob two men in front…
On Thursday, June 24, around 1:30 a.m., an estimated 55 condominiums fell to the ground, most of them with residents asleep inside in the town of Surfside, just north of Miami, Florida.As families wait in agony for updates on missing…
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. William Barber II were among a handful of people arrested this week during a protest on Capitol Hill as more high-profile figures call for new voting rights action.Here's what you need to know…
