For many families in Flint Michigan, their stream of water as well as their stream of happiness has been polluted with seemingly constant toxins and negativity. Will I ever be able to rely on my tap water again? Will I every be able to drink out of something other than bottles without …

Tornadoes engulf areas of the plains on Monday, killing an Oklahoma man and injuring others–marking a period of unpredictable and dangerous weather in the nation’s midsection. An emergency management director said that the man, believed to be in his late 70s, died when the tornado struck his home near Wynnewood, …

Candelario Jimon Alonzo came to the U.S. dreaming of becoming something more than what seemed possible along the rutted roads of his hometown in Guatemala’s highlands. This was his chance: He could earn a U.S. high school education and eventually become a teacher. Candelario Jimon Alonzo ca Instead, the 16-year-old …

The most recent updates on the tornado that swept across Nebraska. 7 p.m. The National Weather Service in Hastings says that it received word of a violent tornado in Nebraska. Trained spotters believe that the twisted had reached Nebraska just before 6 p.m in Chapman, roughly 12 miles northeast of …

A former Los Angeles garbageman was convicted Thursday of 10 counts of murder in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings that singled out poor, young black women spanning across two decades. Lonnie Franklin Jr. expressed little emotion as the verdicts were read and family members started crying and murmuring in the …

An Alaska couple faces serious child neglect charges after it was discovered that their daughters were kept in virtually unlivable conditions. The parents kept the children in the basement of a decrepit, “mold-filled” house without heat or power while the couple stayed in a makeshift camper in the driveway. Timothy …

A judge on Friday sentenced a Colorado woman who cut a baby from a stranger’s womb to 100 years in prison, which included several maximum penalties: such as terminating a fetus’ life as well as 1st degree murder. Judge Maria Berkenkotter said that these harsh sentences are only imposed for the most …

A coroner’s report released on Tuesday revealed the degree of brutality in the shootings, finding most victims were shot three to nine times each and some of them were bruised–implying prior altercations. Meanwhile, the criminal is still at large, with more than 200 law enforcement officials engaged in a thorough …

A solar-powered airplane landed in California on Saturday, completing the first stage of its daunting mission to travel across the world. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 in Mountain View, in the Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, at 11:45 p.m. following a 62-hour, nonstop solo flight without fuel. The plane …

Ecuadorians searched for food during the days following the earthquake that devastating earthquake that left many in grave danger. Throughout the phase of crippling effects, most areas remain unstable and many more are in peril–primarily coastal towns flattened by last weekend’s powerful earthquake. South America’s deadliest earthquake in more than a decade …