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Heavy rain fall (Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- An atmospheric river event that's been slamming the Pacific Northwest with rain is now focused on western Washington, where dangerous flooding is forcing people to evacuate.Four to 8 inches of rain is possible Wednesday and Thursday in the higher elevations of western Washington state.Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson issued a state of emergency on Wednesday and he […]

Signage outside Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport is caked in snow after a blizzard struck overnight on November 27, 2019 in Bloomington, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (MINNEAPOLIS) -- A 47-year-old man was struck and killed by a snowplow at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, according to local officials.The incident was reported shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at a parking lot near Terminal 2, according to Jeff Lea, a spokesperson for the […]

A sign featuring the Department of Justice building is seen on Thursday, December 4, 2025. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The federal judge who presided over the 2019 criminal case against convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein has became the third judge to grant a Justice Department motion to unseal grand jury materials and other undisclosed evidence from the government's investigative files.U.S. District Judge Richard Berman of the Southern District […]

Powerball lottery ticket forms at Bluebird Liquor on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025 in Hawthorne, CA. Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The Powerball jackpot prize has grown to $930 million, a cash value of $429 million, for Wednesday night's drawing.This is the game's seventh largest prize ever, according to Powerball. The largest prize ever was $2.04 billion, won on Nov. 7, 2022.The Powerball jackpot […]

Heavy rain fall (Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- An atmospheric river event has been slamming the Pacific Northwest with rain, and the flood threat is far from over.In the last two days, 2 to 4 inches of rain fell at lower elevations and 4 to 10 inches was recorded at higher elevations across western Washington and Oregon.On Wednesday, the rain will focus on hard-hit Washington, inundating the […]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) --One student is dead and another critically injured in a shooting Tuesday at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, according to police.A suspect in the shooting, who is not a student at the university, is in custody, police said in a press release, identifying him as Jacob Lee Bard, 48, of Evansville, Indiana.He has been booked into jail on charges of murder and first-degree assault.Preliminary information indicates the shooting […]

(DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, Calif.) -- An ancient lake that once existed at Death Valley National Park has reemerged after record rainfall in the region.Several inches of water have formed in Badwater Basin, which lies at 282 feet below sea level, the lowest point in North America, according to a press release from the National Park Service.During the Ice Ages, the basin -- colloquially known as Lake Manly -- was […]

(LOUISIANA) -- Officials are raising concerns about the conditions in a Louisiana jail as investigators continue to search for a man who authorities said escaped the facility with two others last week by scaling down a wall.St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz released new photos and a video Monday of the Dec. 2 escape, when authorities said three detainees, Johnathan Jevon Joseph, Keith Eli and Joseph Allen Harrington, allegedly used […]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- Multiple people were injured in a shooting Tuesday at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, according to the university and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.A suspect is in custody, according to Beshear and local police.The Frankfort Police Department said it responded to an incident on the school's campus Tuesday afternoon "regarding an active aggressor.""At this time, we are aware of some injuries," Beshear said on X. "Let's pray for […]