A 15-year-old girl died Saturday after she was struck by lightning while swimming off the coast of Georgia, according to the Tybee Island Police Department.Police say they got a 911 call around 2:37 p.m. about a female who possibly had…
Bad news for Slurpee fans: 7-Eleven Day is canceled for the second year in a row. But the good news is you can still get a free Slurpee any day in July.7-Eleven has celebrated its birthday July 11 every year…
A symbol of hope in the form of a rainbow appeared over a remembrance ceremony to pay tribute to the 49 people who lost their lives during the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, five years ago.Orlando…
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Houston Methodist Hospital by employees who opposed a Covid-19 vaccine mandate as a condition of employment.On Saturday, US District Court Judge Lynn Hughes ruled against Jennifer Bridges and 116 of her fellow Houston…
Cicadas have no boundaries.A man in Cincinnati, Ohio, told police he crashed his car into a pole because a cicada flew in through an open window and smacked him in the face.The driver is OK, Cincinnati police tweeted. The department…
Students at an Oakland elementary school will be playing on a new playground when they return to school thanks to NBA star Steph Curry and his wife, Ayesha.The Curry family along with their foundation, Eat. Learn. Play., the Oakland Unified…
Spotting cute pups is worth celebrating any day, but in Colorado it's historic.For the first time since the 1940s, a litter of gray wolves has been seen in Colorado.Officials began tracking two adult wolves named "John" and "Jane" earlier this…
At least four people, including a 6-year-old and an 8-year-old, were wounded in a shooting in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday, according to local police.The two children are in critical condition, "with one sustaining possible life-threatening injuries," Emily Szink, a spokesperson…
A cruise ship's security services discovered 69.5 pounds of cocaine on board the vessel last week and turned over the haul to US Customs and Border Protection officers upon docking at a Florida port, CBP said in a statement.Cruise officials…
Ramses Escobedo probably wouldn't call himself a hero.But during the pandemic, he was asked to act in some heroic ways.Escobedo, a bilingual Spanish-English librarian, manages a branch of the San Francisco Public Library.For more than a year, however, Escobedo hasn't…
Inmates in the Oklahoma Department of Corrections (ODOC) began receiving tablets this week as part of a plan to supply all state prisoners with secure tablet computers.More than 21,000 inmates at over 20 facilities will receive tablets that will give…
Dallas resident Stephanie Houston was driving from the store with her teenage son one day six years ago when he blurted out words that changed their lives forever."Oh by the way," Pierre, then 17, told his mom. "I'm going to…
Deirdre Lawson was living her best life before the pandemic -- if she wasn't traveling, she was going to concerts, movies or doing other activities with friends -- often at the spur of the moment."Then 2020 hit and the universe…
About 19 million years ago, roughly 90% of the world's open-ocean sharks died off, and scientists don't know why.The recent discovery left researchers stunned, unable to explain the immense loss or the reason behind the deaths of one of the…
A 39-year-old man was arrested Saturday in connection with three separate shootings in less than 24 hours that wounded five people across the Columbus, Georgia, metro area, according to police."They were able to apprehend the suspect in the downtown area,"…
A Springfield, Illinois, man is suing the city and six of its police officers for opening a small urn containing his daughter's ashes and allegedly "desecrating" it during a traffic stop.In his lawsuit, Dartavius Barnes claims that the officers violated…
Two people -- including a 3-year-old child -- are dead and a third person is missing after being swept out by strong currents at a beach near Tampa, Florida, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said.Janosh Purackal, 37, and Daniel Purackal,…
Barbara Poma, owner of the former Pulse nightclub, woke up on the five-year anniversary one of the worst mass shootings in US history to news of more mass shootings."There is a gun violence problem. There is a hate problem," said…
Workers testing underwater surveying equipment say they found the wreckage of a small airplane deep underwater in California's Folsom Lake -— and they may have solved a 56-year-old aviation mystery.Sonar images show the outline of the plane, covered in a…
While YouTubers and TikTokers are usually in a fight for followers, this Saturday night, the battle gets physical.LiveXLive Media, a global platform for livestream and on-demand content, is putting on "Social Gloves: Battle of the Platforms." Stars from YouTube and…
