Baby pictures. Toys. Photo albums. Passports. These are just a few of the items found by the search teams at the site of the collapsed Surfside, Florida, condo building that drove home the immensity of what they were doing, one…
California has confirmed the first death from the West Nile virus in the state for 2021.The death occurred in San Luis Obispo County, according to a news release from the California Department of Public Health. It gave no further identifying…
In Arkansas, the fight against both the deadly Covid-19 Delta variant and vaccine hesitancy starts one person at a time, meeting them where they are. Sometimes, that's at church.At St. Theresa's Catholic Church in Little Rock's Southwest side, Oscar Martinez…
When Eliot Middleton was a little boy, he followed his father around everywhere, watching the talented mechanic carefully fix car after car.Less than a year after his death, Middleton, 38, now a restaurant owner, is honoring his father's legacy by…
About a dozen guns, $1,120 in cash, and a large amount of drugs were found after four suspects were arrested at a downtown Denver hotel Friday, according to two probable cause statements released Monday by the city's police department.The person…
The Bootleg Fire in Oregon has more than tripled in size since Friday, gaining more than 100,000 acres, according to the US Forest Service.The fire had burned 143,607 acres as of Sunday morning, up from nearly 39,000 acres on Friday,…
Paige Bueckers, the star point guard for the University of Connecticut women's basketball team, was named the best college athlete in women's sports at the 2021 ESPYS on Saturday night and used her acceptance speech to celebrate and honor Black…
The death toll in the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, rose to 90 on Sunday, officials said in a news conference.Seventy-one of the victims have been identified and their next of kin have been notified, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine…
A woman was scrolling through a list of adoptable dogs at her local humane society when she came across a photo that made her heart skip a beat.There he was -- her former pup and best friend, Kovu, who Aisha…
Bronze statues of two Confederate generals were removed on Saturday from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, almost four years after they were a flashpoint for a violent "Unite the Right" rally that left one person dead.Machinery first lifted the statue…
The death toll from the Surfside, Florida, condo tower collapse rose to 86 on Saturday as recovery efforts were briefly halted after a lighting strike, officials said.Search teams have been recovering victims more quickly now that a portion of the…
On Thursday, Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. But 85 years ago, there was another little Black girl from Ohio who came close.In 1936, MacNolia Cox was a 13-year-old eighth-grader at the…
A historic neighborhood threatened by plans for a sports arena, a bodega that became a hub for Dominicans in Rhode Island and a park where Mexican American students gathered to call for equitable access to education.Those locations are among the…
Binx, a cat who lived on the ninth floor of the Champlain Towers South, was reunited with his family on Friday after volunteers found him near the site of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a…
With his baseball cap and thick white beard, Allyn Kilsheimer could be mistaken for a retiree if it weren't for the team of construction workers trailing him and the long metal pole he carried as he surveyed the ground floor…
Hawaiian authorities are asking for the public's help to find those responsible for vandalizing a cultural site with paintballs.About 100 Hawaiian petroglyphs are spread across the rock face of Pu'u Kilea in the Olowalu Valley, according to Hawaii's Division of…
Brett Durrant was traveling along Highway 395 near Coleville, California, when clouds of dust erupted across the mountainsides next to him. Parts of the rock were collapsing."It's an earthquake!" Durrant's friend, who was driving, shouts in a video posted on…
A 3-year-old boy who was shot over the Independence Day weekend in Buffalo, New York, has died, according to Kait Munro, a spokeswoman with the Erie County District Attorney's office.Shaquelle Walker Jr. was shot on Monday evening in Buffalo, New…
In the midst of a right-wing attack on creating a more inclusive education in the US, Illinois just became the first state to require Asian American history to be taught in public schools.Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Teaching Equitable…
Two bronze statues of Confederate generals will be removed from public property in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, almost four years after the statues were the flashpoint for the violent "Unite the Right" rally that left one person dead and many…
