Brad Matthews

Tractor-trailer rollover in Connecticut kills eight cattle, with six more euthanized

A tractor-trailer rollover on U.S. Interstate 84 in Newtown, Connecticut, early on Thursday morning killed eight cattle, with six more being euthanized after the fact.

October 21, 2023

Air France pilot falls to his death while hiking California’s Mount Whitney

An Air France pilot and French national who was declared missing while hiking Mount Whitney in California has been found dead from a fall.

October 21, 2023

Black bear cub caught in Alaska grocery store, ultimately euthanized

An unexpected visitor showed up at a Petersburg, Alaska, grocery store looking for the bare necessities this week -- a black bear cub.

October 21, 2023

Germany gets back 18th century Austrian painting looted during World War II

An 18th-century painting by Austrian artist Johann Lauterer has been returned to Germany after the FBI's Art Crime Team recovered it from a Chicago resident.

October 20, 2023

CVS to remove ineffective cold medicines after FDA panel says main ingredient doesn’t work

CVS is taking off its shelves cold medicines that contain a decongestant that a Food and Drug Administration panel says doesn't work.

October 20, 2023

Demolition team uncovers Gunther beer bottle with a message from 1955

A man doing a hazardous material survey of a home in Delaware made a surprising find behind a wall -- a beer bottle with a message from 1955 scrawled on it.

October 20, 2023

Maryland judge shot dead outside his Hagerstown home

A Maryland judge was shot to death in the driveway of his Hagerstown home Thursday, hours after presiding over the divorce hearing of the primary suspect in the case.

October 20, 2023

Rowhouse fire in Baltimore kills firefighter

A rowhouse fire Thursday left one Baltimore City Fire Department firefighter dead and four other firefighters injured.

October 20, 2023

San Francisco pedestrian struck and killed by city bus in late night accident

A pedestrian was killed after being struck by a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency bus on Thursday.

October 19, 2023

Pilot safely lands news helicopter after seagull breaks through windshield and hits him in the face

A Chicago news-helicopter pilot was able to land the aircraft safely in a Wisconsin field Wednesday after a bird struck the chopper.

October 19, 2023

X-wing model from ‘Star Wars’ auctioned off for $3.1 million

A miniature X-wing starfighter used in the 1977 movie film "Star Wars" sold over the weekend for $3.1 million by Heritage Auctions.

October 19, 2023

Orlando planning to buy Pulse nightclub, make permanent memorial for mass shooting victims

Orlando's mayor says the city wants to buy the Pulse nightclub, where 49 were slain in a mass shooting in 2016, to create a permanent memorial to the victims.

October 19, 2023

Female elephant dies at the St. Louis Zoo after another elephant is startled by a small dog

A loose dog at the St. Louis Zoo startled a herd of elephants, distressing one female member so much that she collapsed and died.

October 19, 2023

Futuristic prototype Domino’s delivery car from the 1980s up at auction

A three-wheeled prototype Domino's delivery car from the 1980s, looking more like the space shuttle than a typical car, is going to auction in Las Vegas next month.

October 18, 2023

Magnitude 4.1 earthquake rattles Sacramento, San Francisco areas

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck around three miles southwest of Isleton, California, just before 9:30 a.m. local time Wednesday.

October 18, 2023

Maryland highway agency cited over March car crash that killed six workers in a construction zone

The Maryland State Highway Administration was cited for not putting up signs around a construction zone on Interstate 695 where six workers died in a crash on March 22.

October 18, 2023

Exotic African wild cat on the loose in Decatur, Illinois

Animal control authorities in Decatur, Illinois, are on the prowl and looking for a serval, a species of exotic African wild cat, that escaped his owner's apartment.

October 18, 2023

Florida law enforcement says 1986 cold-case killing now solved

A nearly 37-year-old homicide in Florida has been solved and blamed on a now-deceased neighbor, the Polk County Sheriff's Office announced this week.

October 17, 2023

South Carolina man killed in freak tractor accident

A 76-year-old Blacksburg, South Carolina, man died after being caught between his tractor and an attachment.

October 17, 2023

Feds remove 21 now-extinct species from endangered list

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has delisted 21 species from the federal Endangered Species Act due to their extinction.

October 17, 2023