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A Northern California woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to an three-week, multi-state search.

Police say three children have died after being found on a New York City beach and authorities believe the children may have been drowned by their mother.

Coroners say an Indianapolis man and his three young children who were found dead in a car submerged in a pond after leaving for a fishing trip died accidentally, and the man was intoxicated.

A Las Vegas-area elected public official has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June.

Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said Tuesday that a body found during a search the day before is a woman who was abducted and forced into an SUV during an early morning jog.

Students in Uvalde are going back to school for the first time since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a classroom attack that shocked the country.

A portion of Interstate 95 in North Carolina was shut down for several hours after a blown tire caused a truck hauling luxury vehicles to crash.

A passenger on the Aug. 24 flight said someone was using Apple’s air-drop service to send the image of a naked man to other passengers.

Two shark attacks take place at South Carolina's most popular beach.

Two million MamaRoo swings and 220,000 RockaRoo rockers were recalled on Monday after a 10-month-old died due to asphyxiation using the product, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Authorities say three people were injured in a shooting in a parking lot of an amusement park north of Chicago that sent visitors scrambling for safety.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation has opened a query into seat belt pretensioners on certain 2020-2022 Kia/Hyundai vehicles, saying that they may rupture or explode.

U.S. immigration authorities are planning to issue photo ID cards to immigrants in deportation proceedings.

A 17-year-old boy from Stillwater, Minnesota died and four other people were seriously hurt after they were stabbed while tubing down a Wisconsin river Saturday afternoon.

What better time to take a quiz on Garfield the cat than National Lasagna Day?

A missing 7-year-old boy was found dead in a washing machine.

One of the nation’s biggest lottery prizes has grown a little bigger as the Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $1.1 billion.

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The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline plunged 32 cents over the past two weeks to $4.54 per gallon.

Montana authorities say a man drove his pickup truck into a family as they walked in a tourist village bordering Glacier National Park and opened fire at them with a shotgun.

Towering waves on Hawaii's south shores crashed into homes and businesses, spilled across highways and toppled tables at a wedding reception over the weekend.

Authorities say four people are dead after two small planes collided at North Las Vegas Airport.

Simple advice from a friend to stay near the door may have saved Yenifer Yulisa Cardona Tomás from the deadly fate that befell 53 other migrants when they were abandoned trapped in a sweltering semi-trailer last week in Texas.

Sheriff's officials in Wyoming say a distress signal initially thought to be from a crashed aircraft led searchers to a backpacker who’d been mauled by a grizzly bear.

Ian Desmond, Gio Gonzalez and Jayson Werth are among the ex-Nationals scheduled to reunite for Zimmerman's number retirement ceremony next week.

As the national average price per gallon nears $5, Central Florida gas prices have jumped in the last 24 hours.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is getting ready to launch a national suicide prevention lifeline in July.

Authorities say a second military aircraft may have crashed near the California desert site where a Marine helicopter went down a day earlier, killing all five people aboard.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has announced he'll sign a bill that permits school districts to arm employees.

Police say a man who blamed his surgeon for ongoing pain after a recent back surgery bought an AR-style rifle hours before opening fire at a Tulsa medical office, killing the surgeon and three other people before fatally shooting himself.

A jury in Portland, Oregon, has convicted a self-published romance novelist — who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband" — of fatally shooting her husband four years ago.

As the community of Uvalde and the country continue to grieve, here are some images of how the town is trying to cope with and make sense of the tragedy.

Gas prices in the U.S. and in Florida have reached new record highs.

Congress held its first hearing in half a century Tuesday on unidentified flying objects.

A House panel is set to hold a public hearing on Tuesday on "unidentified aerial phenomena."

The outrage and frustration about what happened in Buffalo is extending here to Central Florida.

An Orlando pediatrician is answering all the questions parents impacted by the national baby formula shortage have.

A 28-year-old man who was rescued from a raft off the coast of New England in 2016 after his boat sank has pleaded not guilty to charges he killed his mother at sea to inherit the family's estate.

A man died of a heart attack in South Carolina while he was burying a woman he strangled to death, according to the sheriff’s officials.

A U.S. Army soldier has died of injuries sustained in a bear attack.

U.S. marshals and sheriff’s deputies led an 11-day manhunt for an Alabama murder suspect and jailer who were heavily armed and preparing for a shootout when they were captured.

Through Facebook groups, Central Florida mothers within their communities are coming together as they face these uncertain times, posting pictures of formula cans and bottles they have leftover for those moms in need.

An Indiana sheriff says the Alabama murder suspect and jailer who evaded authorities for more than a week were heavily armed and preparing for a shootout when they were captured.

Authorities say an Alabama inmate had a “special relationship” with the jail official authorities believe assisted his escape.

Authorities are searching for an “extremely dangerous” murder suspect who escaped from an Alabama jail and the official they now believe may have helped him to escape.

Spirit Airlines’ board still supports Frontier Airlines’ $2.9 billion takeover bid for the airline, saying it determined JetBlue’s competing $3.6 billion offer isn’t a superior proposal.

The tornado that damaged more than more than 1,000 buildings in south-central Kansas generated winds up to 165 mph and carved a path of destruction nearly 13 miles long.

Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly kidnapped a 3-month-old baby in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Authorities say they have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting at a busy shopping mall in South Carolina’s capital on Saturday that left 14 people injured.

David Smith is accused of spying for Russia whilst working at the British Embassy in Berlin.

A house full of unsupervised children in Virginia were given sleeping pills by another child, causing them to be hospitalized Wednesday evening, police said.

Six teenage girls on a high school lunch break were killed when their small car with only four seats collided with a large truck hauling rocks, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Wednesday.

Honduran President-elect Xiomara Castro is facing a growing crisis: Dueling sessions of the newly elected Congress on Sunday elected different sets of leaders

Singapore’s top court has postponed the appeal hearing for a Malaysian man on death row believed to be mentally disabled, after he was diagnosed with COVID-19

The ruling concerns hundreds of thousands of immigrants with TPS who originally entered the U.S. unlawfully.

WASHINGTON The U.S. government is set to sketch its latest picture Thursday of the layoffs that have left tens of millions of people unemployed but have slowed as states increasingly allow businesses to reopen. Even with companies calling some laid-off employees back to work, millions more likely filed for unemployment benefits last week after nearly 39 million sought aid in the previous nine weeks as the coronavirus paralyzed the economy. The pace of layoffs has declined for seven straight weeks, a sign that the cratering of the job market may have bottomed out. The job cuts reflect an economy that was seized by the worst downturn since the Great Depression after the virus forced the widespread shutdown of businesses. The economy is thought to be shrinking in the April-June quarter at an annual rate approaching 40%.

A protester runs away from where police deployed chemical irritants near the 3rd Precinct building in Minneapolis on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, during a protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody earlier in the week. (Christine T. Nguyen/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news:1. VIOLENCE AGAIN ROCKS MINNEAPOLIS Protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody rock the city again, with protesters looting stores and setting fires. CHINA ENDORSES HONG KONG NATIONAL SECURITY LAW Activists in the semi-autonomous territory say the law will undermine civil liberties and might be used to suppress political activity. SURVEILLANCE BILL IN DOUBT Legislation extending surveillance authorities that the FBI sees as vital in fighting terrorism has run into bipartisan opposition, dooming its prospects.

click image Photo courtesy Other Music/Facebookthe National, TV on the Radio, Interpol and Vampire Weekend. Originally set for a full theatrical release today,is instead premiering online in partnership with a group of independent record stores and theaters. There's another cinematic treat being virtually released this weekend (today, in fact) to benefit independent record stores and theatersincluding Orlando's own Park Ave CDs and Enzian Theater and it's a documentary about iconic NYC record store Other Music Before its untimely demise in 2016, the Other Music shop was a famed hub and clearinghouse for sounds on the fringe. The store gave early boosts to the careers of musicians likeis available to stream with the purchase of an $11.50 ticket today (Friday, April 17) only. Half of the proceeds from tickets purchases go toward the local record stores and theaters participating in this screening event.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. A baby hippopotamus born at the San Diego Zoo last month has a name. The zoo says the river hippo calf will be called Amahle (pronounced ah-MA-shay), which means beautiful one in Zulu. Amahle is the ninth hippo calf born at the zoo and the 13th to her mother, Funani. Amahle's father, Otis, is an East African hippo who arrived at the zoo in 2009 specifically to breed with Funani, zoo officials said. Zoo visitors can see Amahle and her mother in the hippo habitat on Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends, officials said.

Days after completing a battery replacement mission outside the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will talk about being the first all-women spacewalking team. NASA will air a news conference Monday at noon on NASA TV and NASA.gov during which Koch and Meir will talk about their historic extra-vehicular activity or EVA. During the spacewalk, the astronauts took a call from President Donald Trump. "We don't want to take too much credit because there have been many others -- female spacewalkers -- before us," Meir told the president. While women have been spacewalking since 1984, it took two decades for women to catch up with men in the spacewalking arena.

After all the years of recorded named storms, one has to wonder: What happens when we run out of names? The World Meteorological Organization came up with a six-year rotating list of names for hurricanes, Gross said. Now we arrive at our initial question: What happens when we run out of names? So, lets say we have a storm named Walter. The first and last instance in which the Greek alphabet was needed was in 2005, during the busiest hurricane season on record, when there were 28 named storms.