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The K-8 school was placed on lockdown and students were taken by bus to a nearby church to be reunited with frantic parents.

While firefighters were investigating a gas odor, an explosion occurred, "causing a partial collapse of the two-story apartment building," Dallas Fire-Rescue said.

Juwan Deering, who was sentenced to life in 2006 for the fire-related deaths, walked into court shackled at the waist but walked out as a free man.

Police said the suspect, 24-year-old Esther Callejas, told detectives she wanted her children "to go to heaven.”

The Federal Aviation Administration has reported "a disturbing increase" in unruly behavior on planes this year.

The map was acquired by Yale in the mid-1960s and was said to be the earliest depiction of the New World.

Kim Crumbo, 74, and his brother, Mark O'Neill, 67, were reported missing by a family member on Sep. 19 after they failed to return from their four-night backcountry trip.

The pandemic is devastating rural America, where lower vaccination rates are compounding the already limited medical care.

Kaleb Cole helped organize a campaign to send threatening posters to journalists and employees of the Anti-Defamation League.

“I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer if she hadn’t contracted Covid,” Primetta Giacopini's 61-year-old daughter said. “She was a fighter. She had a hard life."

Clad in shorts, a T-shirt, socks and slippers, Eugene Bozzi could be seen in the viral clip inching closer toward the alligator as it trailed backward.