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The deadly, record-shattering blast of arctic air known as the polar vortex plunged almost the entire country below freezing on Tuesday and punished parts of it with much worse, including thousands more canceled flights and power grids straining as people cranked up the heat.
A Florida Walmart assistant manager who jumped into the back of a beer thief's pickup truck and went on a 15-mile ride has been fired from his job.Mike Dawson, a manager at a Titusville store, was fired following the wild ride that reached speeds of 90 miles per hour last week, WESH reported.
Two of the three North Carolina officers present when police shot and killed a mentally ill teenager have been cleared, authorities said Tuesday.Keith Vidal, 18, of Boiling Spring Lakes, was shot and killed Sunday afternoon.
A U.S. Army general who led the war in Iraq until late 2010 said Tuesday that this is not the time to send American troops back there even though the government is struggling to regain control of some cities.Gen. Ray Odierno said the U.S.
One person was killed and three others were injured in a large back-country avalanche in East Vail, Colo., on Tuesday, authorities said.
The deadly, record-shattering blast of arctic air known as the polar vortex plunged almost the entire country below freezing on Tuesday and punished parts of it with much worse, including thousands more canceled flights and power grids straining as people cranked up the heat.
Two duck hunters died and a third was plucked from an icy river and rushed to the hospital Tuesday morning after their skiff capsized in Westport, Mass.The U.S. Coast Guard received a rescue call at 9 a.m. of an overturned boat in the Westport River, near New Bedford.
There’s no escaping the polar vortex. Not even for an escaped prisoner.A Kentucky inmate managed to get out of a minimum-security prison on Sunday — and turned himself in the next day at a motel a few miles away, explaining that he wanted to get out of the frigid air.
A federal judge on Monday overturned Chicago's ban on the sale and transfer of firearms, ruling that the city's ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional.U.S. District Judge Edmond E.
A popular Catholic priest viciously murdered in his California church on New Year’s Day was clubbed to death with a wooden stake and metal gutter pipe, authorities said.The Rev.
