Author: John Bacon, USA TODAY

Four inmates who overpowered corrections officers and fled an Ohio jail were back behind bars after being nabbed in North Carolina.

Kids in Browning, Montana, were gifted with that rare September snow day Monday after a historically early winter storm pounded parts of the West.

One week after summer’s end a historic winter storm began blasting parts of the West with up to 3 feet of snow.

Officer Brian Mulkeen was fatally shot, possibly with his own gun, in the Bronx during a struggle with an armed assailant, police said.

The man who slammed his SUV into a suburban Chicago mall has been formally charged with terrorism and criminal damage to property, authorities said.

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The National Weather Service issued a Tropical Storm Watch for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Karen’s exact path was not yet undetermined.

All the victims are wearing orange paper bands on their wrists, police said. Those hospitalized were conditions ranging from critical to serious.

First responders were overwhelmed by 911 calls for high water rescues as Tropical Depression Imelda drenched Winnie and Beaumont, Texas, with rain.

East Texas was facing days of heavy rains and flash flooding Wednesday as Tropical Storm Imelda, downgraded to a tropical depression.