HUMBOLDT — “On May 9, a tragedy struck our city,” Humboldt mayor Nobby Davis said to a packed room at the onset of Monday evening’s city council meeting. “We ended up losing a brave, longtime…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A U.S. fighter jet was shot down in Iran on Friday and one crew member was rescued, officials said, the first aircraft downed since the war began nearly five weeks ago.…

Joey Berntsen emerged unscathed, and feeling not a little fortunate, after being freed from a grain bin north of LaHarpe Thursday evening. Berntsen, 66, had been working on top of a pile of corn when…

SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Rescuers fanned out across the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday in search of anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s remnants caused catastrophic damage to the Southeast, with the…

CRAWFORDVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Emergency crews rushed Friday to rescue people trapped in flooded homes after Helene roared ashore as a powerful Category 4 hurricane in Florida, generating a massive storm surge and knocking out…

Emergency crews have rescued a terrified and screaming toddler after he fell into a narrow pipe and got stuck around a dozen feet below ground in the yard of his Kansas home. “There we go,”…

About 20 people were rescued from flooded homes and vehicles between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, as severe storms dumped an official 4 inches of rain overnight, though locals recorded easily double that amount. Emergency…

UPDATE 11:30 a.m.: Traffic has reopened on U.S. 54 at the intersection with U.S. 169 as water recedes, but closed west of Fort Scott. The Neosho River is at 18.89 feet and expected to crest…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky firefighter who rappelled off a bridge to rescue the driver of a tractor-trailer as it dangled precariously over the Ohio River says he played just a small part of…

TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco (AP) — The toll of the massive earthquake that devastated Morocco could be seen Monday in dozens of remote villages such as Tafeghaghte, where more than half of the 160 inhabitants are thought to have…