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(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 25 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 88,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 84,000 are under evacuation warnings.Status of Palisades, Eaton firesThe Palisades Fire, which began in the Pacific Palisades on Jan. […]

(GREENSBORO, N.C.) -- Police in Greensboro, North Carolina, are urging the community to share any information related to the case of Marissa Carmichael, a Black mother of five who vanished one year ago on Jan. 14, 2024, from an Exxon gas station shortly after making a distressed call to 911.“We appreciate your interest in the Marissa Carmichael case and for keeping it in front of your viewers and our community,” a spokesperson […]

mbbirdy/Getty Images (Taylorsville, N.C.) -- Two local duck hunters in North Carolina ended up discovering human remains during an outing earlier this week, police said.The incident occurred on Monday afternoon at approximately 5:49 p.m. when two duck hunters were scouting an area in Taylorsville, North Carolina -- about 60 miles north of Charlotte -- when they came across human remains in a wooded area around the 1600 block of Highway […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 25 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 88,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 84,000 are under evacuation warnings.Newsom executive order targets 'greedy speculators'Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Tuesday intended […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires burning in Southern California, according to experts.In recent years, parts of the state shifted from a major drought to an extended period of above-average precipitation that allowed for abundant vegetation growth. After that, a stretch of intense, record-breaking heat dried out much of that vegetation and provided […]

mbbirdy/Getty Images (COOPERSBURG, Pa.) -- A man has been arrested in the murder of a New Jersey woman whose body was found in a Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, dumpster over the weekend.Rolando Corte, 42, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Lucrecia Jadan Sumba, 39, from Elizabeth, New Jersey, according to the Union County Prosecutor's Office.Sumba was reported missing by friends and family on Jan. 9 to the Elizabeth Police […]

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) -- Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has issued an executive order to rebuild homes and businesses that the city lost in the ongoing LA County fires that overall have so far burned more than 40,000 acres and destroyed more than 12,000 structuresThe executive order calls for city agencies to expedite temporary occupancy approvals for 1,400 housing units that are near completion, and the establishment of a "Debris […]

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) -- As brush fires continue to spread across Los Angeles County, more than 1,000 prisoners, working as "incarcerated firefighters," are among the emergency responders fighting the blazes, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation confirmed to ABC News.The prisoners, who voluntarily sign up to be a part of the Conservation (Fire) Camps Program, are embedded with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 24 people have died and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 92,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 89,000 are under evacuation warnings.Red flag warnings in place through […]