Updates and the latest news as the Senate votes to avoid a government shutdown and Mehmet Oz faces his Senate confirmation ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

After the lightning hit, the fire spread, "then transformers started blowing, then propane tanks" during the intense blaze at ...

Crews were working to put out a wildfire in the Cherokee National Forest in Cocke County Monday afternoon, according to the ...

A state of emergency has been declared in North Carolina as its southern neighbor battles fires in four forests.

“Well, what we know is that we could prevent half of all home fire deaths if people had a working smoke alarm,” Red Oak Community Rural Fire Department Fire Chief Michael Brown said.

Follow wildfire updates in North and South Carolina, where blazes erupted over the weekend. The largest stemmed from a forest fire near Myrtle Beach.

The fire burned a bit near Jack Britt High School, but school operations were not affected. It's the latest in a series of brush fires that broke out in central North Carolina since the weekend.

Moonshine king Percy Flowers as he appeared in a Saturday Evening Post profile in 1958 Screenshot from Saturday Evening Post Somehow, no book has ever told the story of Eastern North Carolina’s ...

The Fairview Volunteer Fire Department announced the unexpected ... McDowell County Sheriff's Office and North Carolina State Highway Patrol, according to Will Kehler, the county's emergency ...

A 22-year-old Mississauga man has been charged with second-degree murder and arson following a deadly fire at a restaurant in King Township early Sunday morning. Emergency crews responded to ...

sparking a massive fire off the English coast and injuring more than 30 people, the tanker’s operator and authorities said. A major rescue operation was being coordinated by the UK Coastguard as ...