Brad Matthews

Plane crashes into Colorado neighborhood, injuring 4 on board

A single-engine plane crashed in a neighborhood in Arvada, Colorado, on Friday, injuring two adults and two children who were on the aircraft.

June 7, 2024

Woman’s 2023 death confirmed as California’s first recorded black bear killing

A Downieville, California, woman found dead during a welfare check at her home last November has been confirmed as the first victim of a fatal black bear attack in state history.

June 7, 2024

California YouTuber arrested, accused of directing fireworks from helicopter midflight

A Los Angeles YouTuber was arrested this week, accused of directing a video where fireworks were shot from a flying helicopter at a moving Lamborghini.

June 7, 2024

Larger boat collides with skiff in Alaskan waters; 1 rescued, 1 dead

A 58-foot fishing boat collided with a 20-foot skiff south of Petersburg, Alaska, Wednesday, reported the U.S. Coast Guard. A nearby boater saved one of the skiff's two occupants, while the other died.

June 6, 2024

Colorado playground closed after another child attacked by cow elk

A playground in Estes Park, Colorado, has been closed indefinitely by Colorado Parks & Wildlife after a cow elk stomped on a child, the second such incident in the past week.

June 6, 2024

Plague kills swath of prairie dogs in Badlands National Park

Badlands National Park officials in South Dakota have confirmed from testing Friday that the plague killed a large group of prairie dogs, which are rodents the size of rabbits.

June 6, 2024

Michigan man who called into court on Zoom while driving did not have a suspended license

A Michigan driver who called into court on Zoom -- while behind the wheel -- for a charge of driving with a suspended license was the victim of a clerical error.

June 5, 2024

New York couple uses magnets to fish out safe containing $100,000

A New York City couple hit it big while magnet fishing in a pond in Queens, dredging up a metal safe containing about $100,000 in mud-drenched bills.

June 5, 2024

18 Massachusetts beaches close due to bacterial contamination

High levels of Enterococci and E. coli bacteria stopped people from swimming at 18 Massachusetts beaches starting Tuesday.

June 5, 2024

FDA objects to ecstasy for treating PTSD patients

A nonbinding Food and Drug Administration panel rejected a proposal to use MDMA, or ecstasy, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

June 5, 2024

WATCH: Hot-air balloon hits power lines in Indiana, three injured

A pilot and both passengers suffered serious burns when their hot-air balloon hit power lines in Hebron, Indiana, an accident that the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.

June 4, 2024

Woman in hospice declared dead in Nebraska, found to be alive at funeral home

A woman and hospice patient who was declared dead at a Nebraska nursing home was actually still alive, as funeral home workers discovered Monday morning.

June 4, 2024

83-year-old woman gored by Yellowstone bison

An 83-year-old South Carolina woman was airlifted from Yellowstone National Park to a hospital after she was gored by a bison Saturday.

June 4, 2024

Millennia-old Egyptian skull shows signs of surgical treatment for cancer

A team of European researchers found cut marks near lesions on the skull of an Egyptian man dating back thousands of years. The marks suggest a form of cancer treatment.

June 4, 2024

60-year-old Mississippi seafood restaurant pleads guilty to selling frozen, foreign fish as local

Mary Mahoney's Old French House Restaurant, a Biloxi, Mississippi, seafood and steak place open since 1964, pleaded guilty this week to charges of conspiracy to misbrand seafood and wire fraud.

June 1, 2024

South Carolina woman dies amid fire from microwaved foil-wrapped food

A Sumter County, South Carolina, woman died recently after a fire started in her house when someone put a foil-wrapped sandwich into a microwave oven.

June 1, 2024

California octogenarian accused of slingshot vandalism dies a day after leaving jail on bail

An 81-year-old California man accused of using a slingshot to vandalize car and house windows in his neighborhood over the course of a decade died this week, one day after bonding out of jail.

June 1, 2024

Malaysian climber rescued from 19,600 feet up Alaska’s Denali

A Malaysian man was saved Friday from a snow cave 19,600 feet up Alaska's Denali, the highest mountain in North America. A fellow climber died before he could be rescued.

June 1, 2024

Japanese space agency loses contact with Venus orbiter Akatsuki

The Japanese space exploration agency JAXA has lost contact with its Akatsuki space probe, which was launched in 2010 and has been in Venus' orbit since 2015.

May 31, 2024

Loch NASA? Nessie hunters seek U.S. space agency’s aid in plumbing depths of Scotland’s Loch Ness

The Loch Ness Centre in Scotland is asking for the aid of NASA and its equipment to find Nessie, the long-necked freshwater creature that some believe lives in Loch Ness.

May 31, 2024