Another storm slams California on Christmas Day with flooding rain, high winds and mountain snow

After a harrowing and deadly Christmas Eve in California with rescues and evacuations amid widespread flooding and debris flow threats, another storm is battering the state Christmas Day, with more ...

2 dead and 20 injured after fire and explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home

Two people are dead after a fire and explosion tore through a nursing home on the outskirts of Philadelphia, prompting local responders, bystanders, and staff to rush the elderly residents to safety, ...

One small change in battery design could reduce fires, researchers say

Lithium-ion batteries can become unstable under certain conditions, leading to fires. Now, researchers have used new materials that they say can make batteries safer.

Forecasters warn of ‘particularly dangerous’ fire threat in Colorado and Wyoming with 100 mph wind gusts possible

Destructive winds along with other exceptional conditions are creating exceptional fire risk in Colorado and Wyoming.

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ lights up the box office with $88 million opening

The opening was shy of analysts’ expectations that it could earn more than $100 million, but it also earned roughly $257 million internationally, bringing its global opening to $345 million.

‘Dangerous scenario unfolding’ in Southern California from potent storm lashing the entire state

A major storm is lashing California with powerful winds and is set to deliver months’ worth of rain that could trigger debris flows and flash floods.

2 found dead at an address associated with Hollywood director Rob Reiner

Homicide detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department are on scene and investigating after two people were found dead at ...

How a fatal arrow attack led to an hourslong standoff with police and a house engulfed in flames

A man is facing murder, weapons, and arson charges after authorities say he killed another man with an arrow, then barricaded himself in his home, where several fires were set.

Man who opened fire outside his former Jewish school in Memphis avoids prison with guilty plea

A Tennessee man who was shot by police after he fired a gun at a contractor outside his former Jewish school in Memphis in ...

ICE agents in Twin Cities open fire after an undocumented man allegedly hit them with his SUV

The chaotic apprehension of an undocumented man in St. Paul, Minnesota, ended violently Sunday after the man allegedly struck two federal officers with his vehicle during a stop – causing one officer ...

When communities are grieving, he comes bearing a 10-foot cross. Here’s his story

“I go wherever people’s hearts are hurting the most,” Dan Beazley told CNN in late September, as he rolled the cross around Grand Blanc, Michigan, in the wake of an attack on a congregation of The ...

Kinder chocolate and tears: Hong Kong lays to rest ‘gentle’ firefighter killed battling inferno that rocked city

The white wreaths were piled high on the doorsteps of a funeral house in Hong Kong, a stark reminder of a city still laying its dead to rest more than four weeks after a devastating fire.