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Firefighters have doused the flames at a major industrial fire in Indiana fueled by tons of scrap plastics, but crews continue trying to extinguish hot spots, and an evacuation order…

HOUSTON – Although we can’t yet send people to Mars NASA is getting in some practice. In June, four volunteers from outside of NASA with backgrounds in science and engineering…

New Jersey officials reported that the North Jersey Kanouse wildfire is nearly completely contained, as West Milford reels from the largest wildfire in New Jersey since 2010. The New Jersey…

A rapid spring snowmelt after an unusually wet winter is unleashing flooding from the Southwest to the Rockies, causing residents there and in the Upper Midwest to evacuate or stock…

An alligator attacked a 72-year-old Florida man Friday, biting off a part of his leg, state wildlife officials said.  The attack occurred around 1:50 p.m. at the Great Outdoors RV…

The brother of a Colorado woman standing trial for the murder of her 11-year-old stepson testified earlier this week that he "knew she did it" when he saw her carrying…

A Florida community is devastated after well-respected realtor was found dead in her home and police charged her younger sister with second-degree murder. According to the St. Petersburg Police Department,…

A television executive and former news anchor from Illinois has passed away from a "sudden illness" while vacationing with her family in Florida, reports say.  Lesley Van Ness, 42, who…

A pickup truck driver was reportedly charged in Ohio with vehicular homicide on Friday for a crash that killed three people on Interstate 275 a week ago. Andrew Blankenship, 29,…

A cleaning service employee has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for beating a co-worker to death last summer at a General Motors assembly plant near Detroit. Astrit…