Christa Pike survived an execution attempt in Tennessee on Sept. 30, 2026, after receiving two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal drug. Gov. Bill Lee has temporarily suspended executions in the state.

Pike became the first person ever to get full doses of the drugs intended to kill her and to live nonetheless. But she is not the only ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal investigators released their first report into what went wrong when 21 Air Flight 7598 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport last month, killing five people in a work van and seriously injuring five others.

The report released Thursday afternoon shows the plane was coming in much faster than investigators ...Read more

Maryland is officially the first state in the nation to designate a state shark: The extinct megalodon became one of the state symbols Thursday as nearly 300 new laws took effect.

The megalodon was the largest predatory shark to ever live, according to a news release from the Calvert Marine Museum. Its fossils, including highly coveted teeth, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Summer has ended, but in Southern California the extreme heat has not. On the heels of a miserably sticky summer, an unusually long October heat wave is set to arrive, according to forecasters.

"Dangerously hot conditions" are expected to descend Friday, when an extreme heat watch goes into effect for the L.A. County region, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that aimed to prevent former federal immigration officers from finding law enforcement and other jobs in California, a sweeping proposal that passed the Legislature with strong Democratic support.

Newsom, in a veto message Wednesday, said the Trump administration was using “horrific ...Read more

BOSTON — A judge denied Lindsay Clancy’s bid to have him find her not guilty of the murder of her three children after her trial ended in mistrial.

Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington had filed a motion for a required finding of not guilty on the murder charges because, he argued, the prosecution had failed to provide enough evidence that ...Read more

Over five days in August, Pennsylvania health officials called the Lancaster County coroner’s office at least three times and sent an email asking to discuss the death of an infant who had tested positive for measles.

They did not connect with coroner Stephen Diamantoni before Gov. Josh Shapiro came to the county to announce at an Aug. 25 ...Read more

A St. Paul man who admitted to pocketing more than $1.6 million through the massive Feeding Our Future fraud scheme was sentenced Thursday to nearly three years in federal prison.

Abdi Nur Salah, 38, received his 33-month sentence in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis after pleading guilty to wire fraud as part of an agreement with the ...Read more

Former New Jersey Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell, who resigned last week following a report that found evidence he had engaged in sexual harassment, is being investigated by his church, according to an email from a bishop.

Caldwell told The Inquirer Thursday he was not facing any new allegations of impropriety. The Eastern Pennsylvania and Greater New ...Read more

The FlyDubai pilot who tried to crash the Boeing Co. 737 carrying 174 passengers mainly from Israel was Omani, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, raising questions how he gained permission to fly despite a strict security screening process.

The revelation about the co-pilot’s nationality will put pressure on the airline ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two people died, and one remains missing in the water after a medical transport helicopter flying from Santa Catalina Island to the mainland went down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday evening, officials said.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department received a call at 7:43 p.m. for a marine rescue to recover three people from the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two members of Congress are ramping up efforts to investigate the consequences of DDT pollution off the Southern California coast — an issue that has horrified scientists and policymakers since they learned that as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been dumped into the ocean after World War II.

In a first-of-...Read more

MIAMI — Federal investigators released their first report into what when wrong when 21 Air Flight 7598 overshot the runway at Miami International Airport last month, killing five people in a work van and seriously injuring five others.

The 767-33A was carrying cargo on contract for Amazon Prime when it came high and fast over the Runway 30 on...Read more

The FlyDubai pilot who tried to crash the Boeing Co. 737 carrying 174 passengers mainly from Israel was Omani, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, raising questions how he gained permission to fly despite a strict security screening process.

The revelation about the co-pilot’s nationality will put pressure on the airline ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., announced the arrival of her daughter this week, boosting the ranks of congresswomen who have given birth in office.

It’s still a small group — just 14 others have given birth to children while serving as sitting members of Congress, according to the House historian’s office.

The announcement,...Read more

The National Hurricane Center is once again monitoring the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay as of Thursday and give the system a chance of redevelopment.

Fay, located several hundred miles southeast of Bermuda in the subtropical central Atlantic, reached tropical-storm status three times beginning Sept. 20. Most recently, it degenerated into a ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing a staggering $260.8 million settlement to resolve 16 lawsuits alleging police misconduct by disgraced former Chicago Detective Reynaldo Guevara.

The mass deal pitched by Johnson’s Law Department appears to be the largest single police misconduct settlement in U.S. history. And it will leave a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The family of Renee Good, the 37-year-old Minneapolis woman whose killing at the hand of an ICE agent during Operation Metro Surge sparked global outrage, sued the United States of America, the federal agent who shot her and several high-ranking Trump administration officials on Thursday, accusing them of implementing a vast ...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — For about 24 hours, it was believed that a highly venomous snake might be slithering about a Santa Ana neighborhood after police announced a sighting on Monday, Sept. 28. But on Tuesday, Sept. 29, the police revealed the sighting was a hoax concocted with an AI-generated image of a snake in a tree.

Santa Ana police had ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Thursday said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether the U.S. attorney’s office intentionally misled her in the “Broadview Six” case, a rare step that could lead to criminal contempt charges or other sanctions.

In making her decision, U.S. District Judge April Perry said she was ...Read more