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ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images(SAN MARGARITA, Calif.) -- Anyone driving through California's Central Valley this spring may see a rare event of nature -- an explosion of colorful wildflowers.It's called a "super bloom" and it's happening right now inside Carrizo Plain National Monument. According to the Bureau of Land Management in California, the beautiful scene is drawing record crowds.Bob Wick, the bureau's Wilderness Specialist and Photographer, said in a post on Facebook […]

Courtesy Sherry Smith(HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn.) -- A Tennessee mom is on a mission to prove her daughter’s mysterious death at a lake event two years ago was not an accident.Lauren Agee, a 21-year-old criminal science major from Hendersonville, Tennessee, was attending WakeFest, an annual grassroots wakeboarding tournament in Smithfield, Tennessee, with some friends in July 2015 when her body was discovered in Center Hill Lake.Authorities determined she died from a fall […]

ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images(SAN MARGARITA, Calif.) -- Anyone driving through California's Central Valley this spring may see a rare event of nature -- an explosion of colorful wildflowers.It's called a "super bloom" and it's happening right now inside Carrizo Plain National Monument. According to the Bureau of Land Management in California, the beautiful scene is drawing record crowds.Bob Wick, the bureau's Wilderness Specialist and Photographer, said in a post on Facebook […]

Courtesy Sherry Smith(HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn.) -- A Tennessee mom is on a mission to prove her daughter’s mysterious death at a lake event two years ago was not an accident.Lauren Agee, a 21-year-old criminal science major from Hendersonville, Tennessee, was attending WakeFest, an annual grassroots wakeboarding tournament in Smithfield, Tennessee, with some friends in July 2015 when her body was discovered in Center Hill Lake.Authorities determined she died from a fall […]

Courtesy Lisa Thompson(ROY, Utah) -- Firefighters and police officers in Roy, Utah, donated cash and gifts cards from their own pockets to a boy who watched his family’s home go up in flames on his birthday.Tyten Sparks had just finished a special breakfast Wednesday and was preparing to go on an adventure for his 10th birthday with his mom and brother when he heard a rumbling noise in the garage […]

Ariyana Davis(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago high school student was accepted into every one of the 24 colleges she applied to, 23 of which were historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).Ariyana Davis is an 18-year-old senior at Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School. She was able to apply to dozens of schools thanks to the Common Black College Application that allows students to apply to up to 50 HBCUs for a […]

U.S. Navy(NEW YORK) -- In the span of just 30 minutes, the U.S. military launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Syria from two Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea.An hour later, beginning around 8:45 p.m. ET Thursday, the missiles hit their targets at the Shayrat Air Base in Homs Province, where U.S. officials say President Bashar al-Assad’s regime deployed planes that carried out a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Navy investigators said Friday they believe 27 individuals were involved in criminal activity in posting non-consensual nude photos of female Marines online. Of those, 15 are active duty U.S. military personnel, they added -- 14 in the Marine Corps and one in the Navy.Gen. Glenn Walters, assistant commander of the Marine Corps, and Andrew Traver, director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), said that while the 27 […]

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Navy investigators said Friday they believe 27 individuals were involved in criminal activity in posting non-consensual nude photos of female Marines online. Of those, 15 are active duty U.S. military personnel, they added -- 14 in the Marine Corps and one in the Navy.Gen. Glenn Walters, assistant commander of the Marine Corps, and Andrew Traver, director of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), said that while the 27 […]