In what could be a plot from an episode of “The X-Files,” the authorities are investigating the mysterious deaths in three Texas counties of six cattle that were found with their tongues missing. Ranchers found the mutilated remains of a 6-year-old longhorn-cross cow on their property, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook Wednesday.…
At least two people were killed as stormy weather and at least one confirmed tornado swept through a rural county south of Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, the local police said. The two deaths were recorded in or near Cole, a town of about 600 people south of Oklahoma City, Scott Gibbons, a deputy sheriff…
At least one person has died and nearly 100 people have gotten sick in a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill in Michigan, the health authorities said, prompting the plant to temporarily close as local and federal investigators try to identify the source. The outbreak of blastomycosis at the Billerud paper mill in Escanaba,…
At least five people were killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a bank in downtown Louisville, Ky., on Monday morning, the police said. Paul Humphrey, the deputy chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department, said that the police received calls about a shooting at Old National Bank around 8:30 a.m. and…
At least eight people died after the small boats they were in capsized near a San Diego beach, the authorities said on Sunday. San Diego Fire-Rescue Department lifeguards responded to a 911 call around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the department spokeswoman, Monica Muñoz. The caller, a woman, said she and other passengers of…
After powerful storms swept through the South on Friday, leaving at least 12 people dead and hundreds of thousands of customers without electricity on Saturday, officials urged residents to use caution as downed power lines and uprooted trees posed lingering threats. Heavy rains, severe winds and tornadoes damaged homes and businesses in Alabama, Arkansas, the…
Two gunmen invaded a home in Tulare County in Central California early Monday, where they killed six people, including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby, in what the authorities said was presumed to be a gang-related attack. Officers arrived at the home in Goshen about 4 a.m. local time, after someone called the police…
Four people were killed and dozens of others were injured after a bus rolled over on an “extremely icy” highway in British Columbia on Christmas Eve, the authorities said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the bus crashed around 6 p.m. local time on Highway 97C east of Merritt, about 170 miles northeast of Vancouver.…
Jim Kolbe, who for a decade was the only openly gay Republican in Congress, died on Saturday. He was 80. The death was announced by Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona. The statement did say where he died or cite a cause. Mr. Kolbe, who served in the House of Representatives from 1985 until he retired…
It was another act of violence against civilians in the United States this month. In a shooting in Colorado Springs over the weekend, five people were killed at an L.G.B.T.Q. club. A week earlier, three members of the University of Virginia football team were killed in Charlottesville, Va., by a former football player who opened…