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Some of the U.S.'s biggest cities braced for what's expected to be another mammoth snowfall and blizzard-like conditions in the Midwest and the Northeast — with as much as a foot and a half forecast through Friday.
Lightning strikes killed fewer people in the U.S. last year than in any other year on record, officials said Thursday.Just 23 people died as a direct result from lightning strikes in 2013, according to figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Six children escaped a house blaze that killed four female family members on New Year's Day, officials said.The kids, who were aged nine and under, were woken up by smoke detectors at the property in Marianna, Fla., on Wednesday.
Some of the U.S.'s biggest cities braced for what's expected to be another mammoth snowfall and blizzard-like conditions in the Midwest and the Northeast — with as much as a foot and a half forecast through Friday.
A Catholic priest was found dead in the rectory of his California church Wednesday morning, and police are investigating it as a murder, authorities said.The body of Father Eric Freed was discovered at St.
Some of the U.S.'s biggest cities braced for what's expected to be another mammoth snowfall in the Midwest and the Northeast — with as much as a foot and a half forecast through Friday.
A nurse in a Michigan hospital kissed the patient's forehead. More than 6,000 miles away, Sanaz Nezami's family in Iran watched the simple act over a laptop computer and wept.
A winter storm grounded hundreds of flights Wednesday as forecasters warned that most of the Northeast could be buried under as much as a foot and a half of snow Friday.
WASHINGTON - The Pennsylvania woman who called herself Jihad Jane and a teenage accomplice from Maryland provided "very significant" assistance to U.S. authorities in several terrorism investigations but still remain threats to the public, prosecutors say in new court filings.
After about three consecutive weeks of praying, fighting, shouting and weeping over a 13-year-old declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy, things were relatively quiet on New Year's Day regarding the life and death of Jahi McMath.
