OAKLAND, California — Kimarii McLemore was 25 years old and one day away from finishing her carpentry program. She had made it to the last class. That morning, she texted her mother. There was a suspicious car in the parking lot, she said. Something felt wrong. Her mother drove straight to the school to check … Read more
MIAMI, Florida — A 61-year-old woman was simply walking down the street on a Tuesday afternoon. She was not in an argument. She had no idea what was about to happen. As she passed a man walking in the opposite direction, he swung at her face without warning, knocking her to the ground before running … Read more
MARIETTA, Georgia — A neighbor remembers seeing little Messiah Harris just days ago, cradled in the arms of his mother’s boyfriend. “He was holding him and saying he was fixing to be three,” the neighbor recalled. Messiah never made it to that birthday. A Missing Child Report That Did Not Add Up On Friday afternoon, … Read more
CULVER CITY, California — Brandon Mendez was just trying to get out of the way. The 19-year-old saw a car blowing through red lights that June evening and stepped aside. The driver swerved anyway — and hit him at 80 miles per hour. “I was hit, and I was launched pretty far,” Mendez said. The … Read more
A massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake tore through western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people and injuring 87 others in what officials are calling the strongest quake to ever hit the country. The tremor struck around 8:34 a.m. near San José del Palmar in the rural Chocó province, roughly 250 miles from Bogotá, according to … Read more
WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin — A 4-year-old boy named Dante Campbell is dead. And the two adults who were supposed to protect him chose to look the other way. His mother, Charlotte Kurek, 31, pleaded guilty this week to child neglect with death and chronic child neglect. Court records confirm she knew her son was being … Read more
DALLAS, Texas — The heat is not letting up, and Tuesday could be the most dangerous day of the week so far. North Texas is under a heat advisory from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Heat index values — what the air actually feels like on your skin — could reach 108°. For anyone … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — A dangerous stretch of severe weather is taking shape across a wide corridor of the country today, and forecasters are urging residents to pay close attention as conditions deteriorate through the afternoon. Two separate zones are under a Level 2 of 5 Slight Risk — one cutting through the Dakotas and northwestern … Read more
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans are waking up each day not knowing how much water they will have by nightfall. More than 180,000 residents across San Juan, Ponce, and Guayama are now living under active water rationing as a severe drought tightens its hold on the island. Officials say … Read more
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — If you have plans to be outside anywhere in Pennsylvania today, forecasters want you to stop and pay close attention first. Multiple storm systems are targeting the state on Monday, August 10, bringing the threat of severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, and large hail to millions of residents — from Pittsburgh in the … Read more