Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Thursday that the city is prepared for a surge in federal deployment even as U.S. President Donald Trump announced he is backing of a planned surge of federal agents ...

FORT WORTH — Two people were killed Sunday afternoon when the small airplane they were on crashed near Hicks Airfield in Fort Worth, igniting a massive blaze that sent a plume of thick black smoke ...

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A federal judge in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on Thursday to prevent the deployment of the National Guard in the city. April Perry, district judge for the Northern District of ...

A teacher in southeast Iowa was taken to the emergency room after an incident in a classroom involving a fire extinguisher. The Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont school district posted on Facebook that a ...

A federal judge granted a request to temporarily block a National Guard deployment in Chicago, saying the move violates the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge April Perry ruled the Trump ...

I’ve never been more alarmed about the state of our democracy. The U.S. is sliding toward authoritarianism faster than ever, while corporate media turns a blind eye. That’s why Common Dreams exists—to ...

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old man accused of setting the most destructive blaze in Los Angeles history, likely used a lighter to start a small fire on New Year’s Day that smoldered underground ...

A 29-year-old man accused of starting a New Year's Day brush fire that smoldered underground for days and eventually re-ignited to become the deadly Palisades Fire has been arrested in Florida, ...

HOUSE FIRE. TODAY, AMES FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS CREWS WERE CALLED TO A HOME NEAR TRIPP STREET AND SOUTH FRANKLIN AVENUE THIS EVENING. THE HOMEOWNER HAD HEARD HER SMOKE DETECTORS GOING OFF AND FOUND THE ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Federal prosecutors’ announcement on Wednesday that the Jan. 7 Palisades fire was a flare-up of a small arson fire ...

Nine months after a raging inferno decimated the Los Angeles area, claiming the lives of a dozen people and burning down thousands of homes and businesses, officials have arrested a suspect in Florida ...