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One dead, five injured after shooting at Memphis anti-violence meeting

A shooting at a gun violence intervention meeting in Memphis left one man dead, one critically injured and four others hospitalized with non-serious injuries.

April 10, 2025

Brian Eno’s Windows 95 start-up sound among the recordings added to Library of Congress registry

The Windows 95 reboot chime, which played when computers using the operating system were turned on or rebooted, has been added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

April 10, 2025

Keystone oil pipeline shut down after spill in North Dakota

The Keystone oil pipeline owned by Canadian energy company South Bow has been shuttered temporarily after fuel spilled at the line's mile marker 171 near Fort Ransom, North Dakota.

April 9, 2025

Reports: Feds targeting Reagan National control tower in investigation of March near-miss

Federal investigators are reportedly focusing on mistakes by the control tower in their probe of a near-miss between a Delta passenger jet and a flight of military jets last month at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

April 9, 2025

Yellowstone violations land three separate people in jail for short stays

Three separate people who misbehaved, in varyingly severe ways, at Yellowstone National Park were recently sentenced to time in prison and ordered to pay fines and court costs.

April 9, 2025

Nightclub roof collapse kills 2 former MLB players, 113 in all

A roof cave-in at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic killed two former Major League Baseball players and left several of former star Pedro Martinez's relatives trapped under rubble.

April 9, 2025

Man arrested for threatening to bomb ‘Saturday Night Live’ studio in New York

A man was arrested recently for saying he would bomb the New York studio of NBC's "Saturday Night Live."

April 9, 2025

Parents charged after handgun in Virginia third grader’s backpack fires in classroom

A handgun inside the backpack of a third grader in Fredericksburg, Virginia, accidentally fired on Monday, prompting authorities to charge the student's parents.

April 8, 2025

Illegal immigrant soccer coach accused of killing one teen boy, sexually assaulting another

A soccer coach believed to be an illegal immigrant has been arrested in Los Angeles County and charged with killing a 13-year-old boy found last week and the 2024 sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.

April 8, 2025

Mural honoring Alex Ovechkin unveiled on side of Adams Morgan building

A mural honoring Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin was unveiled Tuesday in D.C., just two days after he broke Wayne Gretzky's all-time regular season NHL goals record with 895 goals.

April 8, 2025

Harriet Tubman info on Underground Railroad web page was erased in error, NPS officials say

Information about the abolitionist Harriet Tubman was wrongly removed from a National Park Service web page about the Underground Railroad that helped escaped slaves, the agency said.

April 8, 2025

Magnolia tree on White House grounds cut down, thought to be planted by Andrew Jackson

A magnolia tree thought to have been planted on the White House grounds by President Andrew Jackson in honor of his late wife was cut down Monday so it wouldn't fall on anyone.

April 8, 2025

Plane door detaches mid-flight, prompts search effort in northern Virginia

The cockpit door of a single-engine two-seater plane came off mid-flight as the pilot was flying over Loudoun County Saturday, and local law enforcement are now looking for the door.

April 5, 2025

Texas measles outbreak grows to over 480 cases, 59 confirmed in just three days

The ongoing outbreak of measles in the South Plains region of Texas has continued to grow. There were 481 confirmed cases as of Friday, an increase of 59 from the count on Tuesday.

April 5, 2025

9-year-old boy drowns in Kentucky flood after walking toward bus stop

A 9-year-old boy walking to his bus stop on the way to school in Frankfort, Kentucky, died Friday morning after he was swept away by floodwaters.

April 5, 2025

Cabin fire diverts United Airlines jet to Dulles airport

A United Airlines flight from the Florida Keys to New Jersey was forced to land at Washington Dulles International Airport Thursday after a fire broke out in the cabin.

April 5, 2025

Bull rider dies after being trampled at rodeo in Texas

A 24-year-old bull rider from Wyoming died Thursday from injuries he suffered after being trampled by the bull at a rodeo event in Wharton, Texas.

April 5, 2025

Michigan couple returns to U.S. after month in Mexican prison

A Michigan couple that had been locked in a maximum security prison in Mexico on allegations that they had defrauded a timeshare returned to the U.S. on Thursday.

April 4, 2025

Planned protests spur White House to reschedule garden tours

The White House is moving tours of its gardens to Sunday from Saturday because of protests planned in Washington on Saturday.

April 4, 2025

Virginia man gets 10 days in prison for spray painting ‘HAMAS IS COMIN’ on statue near Union Station

A Virginia man was sentenced to 10 days in prison for spray painting pro-Hamas graffiti on the Christopher Columbus monument in front of Union Station during anti-Israel protests last summer.

April 4, 2025