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Loring Family Photo(NEW YORK) -- In a remote corner of the Blackfeet Nation, tucked beside a dark stretch of cottonwood and paper birch, there was a desolate trailer that had been vacant for months. Its tin paneling, singed black in places from fire, had begun to peel off in the High Plains wind. The small dank rooms were mostly empty save for piles of discarded clothing and abandoned furniture. Only […]

St. Josephs Hospital(TAMPA, Fla.) --  A Florida man miraculously survived after he collapsed in extreme heat and was lying unconscious for seven hours with fire ants crawling over his face. Clifford Rice, 49, had just finished his shift as a security guard for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ opening game on Sept. 9 when he had a seizure in the parking lot and fell between two parked cars, according to St. […]

Photos597/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Despite a decline of more than 60% over the last four months, the number of unauthorized migrants stopped at the southern border reached nearly 1 million in the 2019 fiscal year -- the most in more than a decade. "These are numbers that no immigration system in the world is designed to handle -- including ours," Mark Morgan, the acting head of U.S. Customs and Border, told reporters […]

Brooke Goins(JACKSBORO, Tenn.) --  A student's innocent question led to a teacher's tears -- and acts of goodwill. Brooke Goins, a teacher at Jacksboro Elementary School in Jacksboro, Tennessee, posted to Facebook about a student who was hungry. "He asked when the lady that puts food in his backpack was coming," she wrote in part about the Oct. 2 encounter. "It caught me off guard, because it is our guidance […]

milehightraveler/iStock(SAN FRANCISCO) --  With strong, dry winds expected to tear through vast portions of California on Wednesday, the power supply to more than 800,000 homes may be turned off by Pacific Gas and Electric as part of an effort to reduce the risk of wildfires. The utility's decision to curb electricity supplies proactively comes nearly a year after the "Camp Fire," the deadliest fire in state history, killed 86 people […]

kali9/iStock(CLEVELAND) -- A grieving family is speaking out after a 6-year-old girl asleep in her Cleveland home was fatally shot in the head.Bullets struck the house at about 1 a.m. Saturday as the little girl slept. She was rushed to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead, Cleveland Police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia said.The victim was Lyric Lawson, who was one of four siblings, said her aunt Deirdre Selmon.Selmon, the […]

NirutiStock/iStock(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -- Two people were thrown from a hot air balloon after a faulty landing that also caused a fire and power outage, officials said.The hot air balloon involved in Monday's accident at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta experienced such a hard landing that the pilot and passenger were ejected, Tom Garrity, a spokesman for the event, said in a statement.The balloon then flew off and rammed into a […]