Fire authorities say a California trench collapse killed an excavation worker after nearly five hours of rescue work, while state inspectors seek the cause. The Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District said the trench collapsed Friday morning as a crew worked near Hickman, about 15 miles eas...

The U.S. Army awarded Skyeton Inc. a $10.64 million Raybird drone contract, but key details about quantities, funding and work sites remain undisclosed. A Defense Department notice issued Sept. 18 named Skyeton Inc. as the recipient, the Kyiv Independent reported. The company is the American arm of ...

A 25-year-old man who shot a Kalamazoo Township police officer during a foot chase in 2025 will spend a minimum of 47 years behind bars, a sentence the department's chief called overdue justice for a crime that permanently altered the officer's life. Circuit Court Judge Pamela L. Lightvoet handed do...

A 48-year-old man accused of shooting a Columbus County, N.C., deputy during a failed traffic stop now faces attempted murder charges after 75 officers hunted him for eleven hours across rural southeastern North Carolina. William Robert Smith Jr. fled a traffic stop just before 8 a.m. Wednesday in t...

San Diego officers shot and killed a man who ignited a police K-9 with a flammable device during a standoff at a North Park business, leaving three officers burned and the dog hospitalized with facial injuries. The confrontation began Monday morning around 9 a.m. when San Diego police responded to r...

Naugatuck Deputy Police Chief Daniel Norck was arrested Friday by police in a neighboring Connecticut town and placed on administrative leave, but neither department has said why. Thomaston police took Norck into custody on Friday, and the Naugatuck Police Department confirmed the arrest the same da...

A photograph of President Trump holding a poster reading "Kennedy Center DEMOLITION" aboard Air Force One has landed in a federal judge's inbox, filed as evidence by a Democratic congresswoman fighting to block the building's closure. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat and Kennedy Center trustee, f...

President Trump announced that the United States and Poland are making "major progress" toward establishing a permanent U.S. Army base on Polish soil, a move that would mark a historic expansion of America's military footprint in Eastern Europe. Trump made the announcement Thursday in a post on Trut...

A Texas Air National Guard F-16 crashed and burst into flames in northern Michigan on Thursday afternoon during a routine training exercise, forcing residents within a mile of the wreckage to evacuate, though the pilot ejected safely and was reported awake and alert at a local hospital. The fighter ...

Search teams recovered the body of 26-year-old hiker Neil Gehring on a remote Washington mountainside nearly two weeks after he vanished on a backcountry trek, a breakthrough made possible only after investigators analyzed cellphone location data. Gehring left the Madison Falls Trailhead in Olympic ...