At least five people were injured after lightning struck a tree at the Tour Championship golf tournament in Atlanta, police and the organizers said on Saturday.Four men and a woman who sought shelter under a tree during a storm at…

After 16 hours pushing through the world's most rigorous endurance horse race, 18-year-old Sanoma Blakeley and her horse Goober were sprinting all-out under a black sky in California's Gold Rush country.Neck and neck with them was a three-time winner of…

At the end of a recent meeting, middle school teacher Cassie Lopez and her colleagues were handed a large bucket, kitty litter and a pop-up shower curtain.They were told that the items could be used as a makeshift bathroom in…

A Delaware man has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a supervisor and making threats of mass violence at the food distribution warehouse where he worked, Maryland State Police said.Brian Knight, 26, was charged with threat of mass violence, second-degree assault…

Federal officials say they've seized more than 52,000 firearms parts that arrived illegally from China at California's Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.The parts -- sights, stocks, muzzles, buffer kits and grips -- arrived in three shipments and had a…

In case you haven't heard, college football is officially back this weekend. But it's unlikely that you're anywhere near as amped up as Michael Irvin.The Miami Hurricanes will face the Florida Gators in Orlando on Saturday night, which promises to…

In Florida, golfers play by a different set of rules. And one of the rules may or may not include ignoring giant, scary alligators.Professional wakeboarder Steel Lafferty was playing golf at the ChampionsGate Country Club in Orlando on Wednesday afternoon…

For more than a decade, the United States maintained its dominance in international men's basketball. All of that changed Saturday, when Team USA lost its first game since 2006 to Australia.The Boomers, ranked 11th by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA),…

Sure, Labor Day's official job is to honor anyone in the workforce, but it's also America's sayonara to summer. And for everyone who sweatily slogged through July, the hottest month on Earth on record, it can't come soon enough.Even though…

A 6-month-old girl was in critical condition after crossing the US-Mexico border with her father in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, US Customs and Border Protection said Saturday.The girl was among a group of 21 people apprehended about 1:30…

Police in Long Beach, California, are mourning a K9 officer that died apparently of heat-related causes in a department vehicle.The dog, Ozzy, was found by its handler when both were off-duty about 3:40 p.m. on August 14, the Long Beach…

An 8-year-old girl was killed and three other people were injured in a shooting near a preseason high school football event Friday night in St. Louis, police said.Investigators are looking for whoever fired the shots. The girl is the 12th…

As a young Texas couple were leaving the courthouse for their wedding ceremony, their car collided with a pickup truck, killing both of them, according to CNN affiliate KFDM.Harley Morgan, 19, and Rhiannon Boudreaux, 20, were merging onto Highway 87…

Two New York women who plotted to build a bomb for a terrorist attack in the United States face 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges, authorities say.Asia Siddiqui, 35, and Noelle Velentzas, 31, are US citizens…

The man who fatally shot Markeis McGlockton in a controversial "stand your ground case" was found guilty by a jury Friday night, and McGlockton's family says they can now begin to heal.After six hours of deliberation, a jury found Michael…

The Paradise High School Bobcats had their season stolen from them last year.The team in Northern California missed the playoffs for reasons out of their control after the Camp Fire destroyed the town of Paradise in the span of two…

Six people were injured in a prison riot in San Diego Friday night, according to a Cal Fire spokesman.The riot took place at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, Capt. Thomas Shoots told CNN."Approximately 100 inmates were in the yard…

Taras Petryshyn started out in Clifton Public Schools as a high school student, then a custodian. Now, he's about to start his first school year as an assistant principal in the same district."I cannot really explain how special it is,"…

An Illinois State Police trooper died Friday evening hours after he was wounded in an exchange of gunfire at a neighborhood in East St. Louis, officials said.Trooper Nicholas Hopkins, 33, was executing a search warrant shortly before dawn when he…

A Florida high school teacher was placed on administrative leave after he told students he'd "be the best school shooter" with a "1,000 person body count."The incident took place at Lakeland Senior High School, about 45 minutes from Tampa, on…

In a move widely expected to revive the national media spotlight on hate crime allegations made by "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, a Chicago judge on Friday announced the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate how local prosecutors handled the…

A former Houston police officer who authorities said lied to obtain a search warrant for a raid in which two people died and five officers were injured has been charged with murder, a prosecutor said Friday.Gerald Goines, who had a…

Authorities in Minnesota were searching Friday for the son of former NFL player Barry Bennett after Bennett and his wife were found shot dead at their home in Long Prairie.The Todd County Sheriff's Office said Barry and Carol Bennett, both…