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Nine people were killed early Thursday when fire tore through a house in Kentucky, authorities said.The fire started about 2 a.m. in Muhlenberg County, about 150 miles southwest of Louisville. The coroner confirmed the nine deaths to WFIE, the NBC affiliate in Evansville, Ind.
Dozens of children at a Utah school had their lunches seized and thrown away because they did not have enough money in their accounts, prompting an angry response from parents, it was reported.
Authorities in the South pleaded with motorists Thursday not to risk rescuing their abandoned vehicles as the shivering region struggled to recover from a rare icy blast that crippled roads.Thousands of drivers gave up on their vehicles in Atlanta, Ga.
The 8-year-old New York state boy who died while saving the lives of six people in a roaring trailer fire was laid to rest Wednesday — complete with his own fireman's helmet and the title of honorary firefighter.
Under fire from government officials caught short by the winter storm that socked the South this week, forecasters are fed up and want you know they're not going to take it anymore.
As part of her sentence for helping the Earth Liberation Front burn $40 million worth of property, Rebecca Rubin will also have some homework to do: A federal judge ordered her to read two books, including one by famed social sciences author Malcolm Gladwell.
A McDonald’s worker is accused of putting a little extra something in Happy Meals sold at a Pittsburgh drive-through: heroin.Police said they arrested the 26-year-old woman Wednesday after buying the drugs at a McDonald’s in the East Liberty neighborhood, NBC station WPXI of Pittsburgh reported.
OKLAHOMA CITY — The school's wall collapsed onto Jennifer Doan Rogers as she desperately tried to protect her third-grade students as a tornado ripped through their Oklahoma community. The young teacher had laid one of her hands on Nicolas McCabe, a 9-year-old with an infectious grin.
The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday denied last-minute appeals that had temporarily blocked the planned execution of a Missouri man.The high court had issued a last-minute stay of execution of Herbert Smulls — who was originally scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m.
The young man who killed two skate store employees and then shot himself inside a shopping mall wrote about killing people in his journal and said he was ready to die, Maryland police revealed Wednesday.
