A 13-year-old boy is dead after being lured out of his Washington, D.C., apartment by two individuals who were caught on a Ring camera waiting in the hallway outside his door. Ahmad Mims lived on the 1600 block of Rosedale Street in the nation’s capital. On Saturday evening, someone knocked on his door and asked … Read more
Swatara Township, PA- The child, found wandering alone at 7:30 a.m., had been confined behind a barricade of zip ties, duct tape, and wooden boards — and spent up to three days straight inside without being let out, authorities say. A 5-year-old boy was found wandering naked in the middle of a Pennsylvania road on … Read more
A Michigan mother will not fight criminal charges after police discovered she had abandoned her three children — ages 12, 13, and 15 — leaving them to survive alone in a home without running water or working toilets. Kelli Bryant, 35, of Pontiac, Michigan, entered a no contest plea to three counts of first-degree child … Read more
If the air outside smells like a campfire and the sky looks hazy, you are not imagining it — and health officials want you to take it seriously. Smoke from massive wildfires burning across Canada has now blanketed at least 18 US states, triggering emergency air quality alerts from the Great Lakes down into the … Read more
If you’ve noticed the sky looking different tonight, you’re not imagining it. A thick blanket of clouds is moving across the region as temperatures drop into the 50s — a sharp shift that is already catching residents off guard. Southwest winds gusting up to 22 mph are pushing stratus clouds in from the coast, and … Read more
California residents may want to start preparing now. Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have issued a stark warning: there is an 81% chance that a very strong El Niño event will develop between October and December — one that could rank among the most powerful in recorded history, going back to 1950. … Read more
Los Angeles, CA- Southern California residents may be tempted to breathe a sigh of relief as temperatures ease this weekend — but weather officials are urging the public not to get too comfortable. The region is facing a dangerous one-two punch: a powerful surf event arriving Sunday and a heat surge locked in for next … Read more
A high surf advisory is now in effect for parts of Southern California, warning residents and beachgoers of life-threatening ocean conditions expected to last from Sunday evening through Tuesday night. The National Weather Service office in Los Angeles/Oxnard issued the advisory Friday afternoon, placing Ventura County Beaches, the Malibu Coast, and Los Angeles under alert … Read more
Deadly floods have returned to Texas Hill Country for the second consecutive year, killing at least two people and triggering hundreds of emergency rescues across the region. The Guadalupe River rose over 20 feet in just five hours during the overnight hours on Thursday — a rate that officials described as almost impossible to outrun. … Read more
SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania — A man was pulled from a burning house Monday morning and pronounced dead at the scene — and now investigators are trying to piece together what he was doing inside a home that was supposed to be empty. Christopher R. Forsythe, 37, of Allentown, was pronounced dead at 5 a.m. … Read more