Of all the hazards that hurricanes bring, storm surge is the greatest threat to life and property along the coast. It can sweep homes off their foundations, flood riverside communities miles inland, and break up dunes and levees that normally protect coastal areas against storms.

As a hurricane reaches the coast, it pushes a huge ...Read more

DETROIT — A mass shooting early Sunday on Detroit's east side left 19 people wounded and two people dead, according to preliminary information from the Michigan State Police.

The incident happened at about 2:30 a.m. on Rossini near Gratiot in Detroit's Red Zone, a neighborhood that for years has been one of the city's deadliest, two police ...Read more

Tropical Storm Beryl is gaining strength as it lumbers toward the south Texas coast, and is expected to become a hurricane again before it makes landfall early Monday morning.

The storm was about 165 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, with top speeds of about 65 miles per hour, according a US National Hurricane Center forecast at 2 p.m....Read more

Colorado’s goal is to get to 100% renewable energy by 2040, and state officials are looking to geothermal and hydrogen power as important pieces of making the transition.

New state reports say geothermal and hydrogen offer significant opportunities to build on the energy provided by wind, solar and batteries as the state, utilities and ...Read more

In the international plot to kill Haiti’s president, his political rivals enlisted a Miami-area security firm to hire a squad of ex-Colombian soldiers to carry out the assassination and replace him with a hand-picked successor, according to federal authorities.

But in the days leading up to President Jovenel Moïse’s July 7, 2021 ...Read more

As the Supreme Court cements cities' authority to create anti-camping laws to regulate homelessness in their communities, it's not just urban areas contending with the implications.

In one of its most significant decisions on homelessness in decades, the court sided with dozens of localities on the West Coast, finding that their ordinances ...Read more

Tropical Storm Beryl is gaining strength as it lumbers toward the south Texas coast, and is expected to become a hurricane again before it makes landfall early Monday morning.

The storm had top speeds of about 65 miles per hour, according a U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast at 11 a.m. in New York. A hurricane warning is in effect for the...Read more

Tropical Storm Beryl entered the heated waters of the Gulf of Mexico, where it’s forecast to grow a hurricane before striking the Texas coast on Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 11 a.m on Sunday, the center of Beryl is located 195 miles south-southeast Matagorda, Texas, and 195 miles southeast of Corpus Cristi, Texas,...Read more

A 25-year-old man hiking with friends near Silverton fell 600 to 800 feet to his death on the Fourth of July, Colorado officials say.

The Cookeville, Tennessee, man fell from the ridgeline of Snowdon Peak, the San Juan County Office of Emergency Management said in a July 6 news release.

A 911 call reported the fall to the sheriff’s office ...Read more

Blooming flowers signal the beginning of spring, but for millions of people, they also signal the onset of the misery: allergy and asthma season. Itchy, watery eyes; sneezing, runny nose; cough and wheezing are triggered by an overreaction of the body to pollen.

Every spring, trees and grasses release billions of buoyant pollen ...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — They glow like fading stars and have made memories of shimmering summertime backyards for generations.

Whether called a firefly, glowworm, or Latin — lampyridae — lightning bugs are part of American life, particularly in Southern culture. They’ve been sung about by Taylor Swift and flown into the prose of William ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Significant delays in the processing of background checks are causing headaches across California, leaving applications for jobs and housing stuck in limbo while making it harder for employers and landlords to screen for criminal records.

The situation stems from a state appellate court ruling more than three years ago, which ...Read more

“You had to pay the fee, or the doctor wasn’t going to see you anymore.”

That was the takeaway for Terri Marroquin of Midland, Texas, when her longtime physician began charging a membership fee in 2019. She found out about the change when someone at the physician’s front desk pointed to a posted notice.

At first, she stuck with the ...Read more

SANDPOINT, Idaho — The ultrasound in February that found a mass growing in her uterus and abnormally thick uterine lining brought Jonell Anderson more than anxiety over diagnosis and treatment.

For Anderson and other patients in this rural community who need gynecological care, stress over discovering an illness is compounded by the ...Read more

Hundreds of Americans may have unknowingly received therapy from an untrained impostor who masqueraded as an online therapist, possibly for as long as two years, and the deception crumbled only when she died, according to state health department records.

Peggy A. Randolph, a social worker who was licensed in Florida and Tennessee and formerly ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tropical Storm Beryl entered the heated waters of the Gulf of Mexico where it’s forecast to grow over the weekend back into a hurricane before striking the Texas coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of 5 p.m. Saturday, the center of Beryl was located about 330 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, with ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two sisters pulled under the waves off Coney Island have died, police said Saturday.

Aisha, 18, and Zainab Mohammed, 17, were seen struggling in the water near the Riegelmann Boardwalk shortly after 8 p.m. Friday. The New York City Police Department and New York City Fire Department both responded and found the pair in the water at...Read more

Amtrak suspended train service on its busy Northeast Corridor between New York City and Boston for the rest of Saturday, citing a power failure.

A malfunctioning circuit breaker caused a loss of power to all tracks between New York’s Penn Station and New Haven, Connecticut, the rail operator said on its website. The suspension for the ...Read more

Tokyo voters went to the polls Sunday to elect a governor in a race that poses a test for struggling Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose ruling party is backing the incumbent over a prominent challenger from the opposition camp.

Gov. Yuriko Koike has been leading in opinion surveys, putting her on the inside track to win a third term. This ...Read more