SARAH BRUMFIELD

Associated Press
An American Airlines jetliner that caught fire after landing Thursday at Denver International Airport sits near a hangar at the airport Friday, March 14, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Aircraft catches fire after landing in Denver, sending passengers onto wing as smoke engulfs plane
A fire on an American Airlines plane after it diverted mid-flight and landed at Denver International Airport sent fleeing passengers to a wing amid billowing smoke. Airport officials say 12 people were taken to hospitals with minor injuries.
 
In this photo provided by Kenneth Hoffman, a FedEx cargo plane makes an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday, March 1, 2025 in Newark, N.J. (Kenneth Hoffman via AP)
FedEx cargo plane makes emergency landing following bird strike and engine fire
A FedEx cargo plane had to make an emergency landing at a busy New Jersey airport after a bird strike caused an engine fire that could be seen in the morning sky.
 
Snow accumulates on a truck in Norfolk, Va on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Billy Schuerman /The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Snowy roads lead to hundreds of Virginia and North Carolina crashes as Arctic air brings record cold
Snowy roads led to hundreds of crashes throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including a series of crashes on an interstate highway involving more than 50 vehicles.
 
A person stands on ice at Oak Street Beach along the shore of Lake Michigan to take pictures before the sunrise Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Chicago, as the weather service issued cold weather advisories across the Great Lakes region as high temperatures in many places were expected only to rise into the single digits Monday and Tuesday. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Bitter cold spreads across much of the US as Texas and the South brace for rare winter storm
Frigid temperatures engulfed Texas and other parts of the South ahead of a rare winter storm expected to bring heavy snow and disruptive ice accumulations to the region.
 
Key details about the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
The man accused of killing the head of one of the biggest U.S. health insurance companies has been charged in New York with murder as an act of terrorism. Prosecutors announced the new charge against Luigi Mangione on Tuesday.
 
People gather at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at A.C. Reynolds High School in Asheville, N.C.,, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)
Witnesses saw an armed group harassing Helene aid workers in a small Tennessee town, sheriff says
A sheriff says witnesses reported seeing a group of armed people harassing hurricane relief workers in a remote Tennessee community last weekend.
 
People gather at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at A.C. Reynolds High School in Asheville, N.C.,, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Makiya Seminera)
FEMA resumes door-to-door visits in North Carolina after threats tied to disinformation
Officials say federal disaster workers have resumed door-to-door visits as part of hurricane recovery efforts in North Carolina.
 
FEMA employee Jirau Alvaro works with Daniel Mancini, doing a report on the damage to his property on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 in rural Buncombe County, near Black Mountain, N.C. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP)
FEMA workers change some hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina after receiving threats
Officials say federal disaster workers paused and then changed some of their hurricane-recovery efforts in North Carolina, including abandoning door-to-door visits, after receiving threats.
 
Department of Justice attorneys leave the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, Thursday, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Cargo ship crew can leave the US under deal to comply with probe into Baltimore bridge collapse
Crew members on the cargo ship Dali can head home under an agreement that allows lawyers to question them as part of investigations into the cause of the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
 
FILE - Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin talks with supporters during a rally in Culpeper, Va., Oct. 13, 2021. Gov. Youngkin announced Wednesday, June 5, 2024 that Virginia will abandon California's stringent vehicle emissions rules aimed at reducing carbon pollution at the end of the year when that state’s current regulations expire, citing an attorney general opinion. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
Virginia governor says state will abandon California emissions standards by the end of the year
Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Virginia will abandon California’s stringent vehicle emissions rules aimed at reducing carbon pollution at the end of the year when that state’s current regulations expire.
 
Emergency 911 number is dialed on a mobile phone, Thursday, April 18, 2024, in St. Louis. Law enforcement agencies in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Texas reported temporary outages to 911 services on Wednesday before saying hours later that services had been restored. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Light pole installation in Missouri hits fiber line, knocks out 911 service in several states
Workers installing a light pole in Missouri cut into a fiber line, knocking out 911 service for emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada and South Dakota. The mistake was reported Thursday by the company that operates the fiber line.
 
People are seen aboard the container ship Dali, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Baltimore. The FBI confirmed that agents were aboard the Dali conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Ship that caused bridge collapse had apparent electrical issues while still docked, AP source says
Someone with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that the massive container ship that caused the deadly collapse of a Baltimore bridge experienced apparent electrical issues hours before it left the port.
 
This image made from video provided by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., Police Department shows officers attempting to put a woman in the back of a police car after arresting her. On Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, police released the video from the arrest in North Carolina last month, showing that before an officer repeatedly punched a Black woman while others held her down, the woman struck an officer in the face and he responded by hitting her back and knocking her off her feet. (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department via AP)
North Carolina officer who repeatedly struck woman during arrest gets 40-hour suspension
A police officer who repeatedly punched a Black woman during an arrest in North Carolina last month has been suspended, after authorities released new video of the encounter that showed a broader view of what happened than bystander footage shared on social media.
 
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in Charlotte, N.C. A video circulating on social media shows a North Carolina police officer striking a woman repeatedly during an arrest while several other officers hold her down, but police officials said the officer was “intentional” about where he hit the woman to get her to stop resisting and comply. (AP Photo/Erik Verduzco)
Video shows North Carolina officer repeatedly striking a pinned woman during her arrest
A video circulating on social media shows a North Carolina police officer striking a woman repeatedly during an arrest while other officers hold her down.
 
Washington County Circuit Court Clerk Kevin Tucker, right, swears in Andrew F. Wilkinson as a circuit court judge on Jan. 10, 2020, as Wilkinson's wife, Stephanie, watches. Wilkinson was found with apparent gunshot wounds around 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Wilkinson was taken from his home in Hagerstown to Meritus Medical Center, where he died of his injuries, the sheriff's office said. ( Julie E. Greene/The Herald-Mail via AP)
A slain Maryland judge presided over the divorce case of man identified as a suspect in his killing
Authorities say a Maryland judge who was shot to death in the driveway of his home had presided over the divorce case of a man now identified as a suspect in the killing.
 
A police officer searches for evidence in front of a building at Morgan State University after a shooting, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Baltimore police ask for help IDing ‘persons of interest’ seen in video in Morgan State shooting
Baltimore police are asking for the public’s help identifying a group of people seen in the area of a shooting at Morgan State University that left five people injured during homecoming events.
 
A police officer searches for evidence in front of a building at Morgan State University after a shooting, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
Morgan State shooting erupted during dispute but victims were unintended targets, police say
Five people injured in gunfire that erupted during homecoming week events at Morgan State University late Tuesday were likely not the shooters’ intended targets, according to Baltimore police.
 
Beach-goers brave the weather and walk along the sand at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, as Tropical Storm Ophelia approaches in Virginia Beach, Va. The storm was gaining strength as it churned toward the North Carolina coast on Friday, promising a weekend of heavy rain and windy conditions throughout the mid-Atlantic. (Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Tropical Storm Ophelia off the mid-Atlantic coast producing winds just below hurricane force
The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Ophelia has formed off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast and was producing winds just below hurricane force. Forecasters said just before 11 p.m.
 
Visitors to the Southernmost Point buoy brave the waves made stronger from Hurricane Idalia on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Key West, Fla. Feeding on some of the hottest water on the planet, Hurricane Idalia is expected to rapidly strengthen as it bears down on Florida and the rest of the Gulf Coast, scientists said. (Rob O'Neal/The Key West Citizen via AP)
Live updates | Hurricane Idalia set to hit Florida as Category 4 storm
  • The eye of the storm is currently projected to hit Florida’s Big Bend, one of the last truly natural places in the state.
 
Residents gather at a prayer vigil for the victims of a mass shooting a day earlier, in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Man who killed 3 at a Dollar General in Jacksonville used to work at a dollar store, sheriff says
The Jacksonville sheriff says the gunman who killed three people at a Dollar General used to work at a dollar store and had stopped in at one before a security guard’s presence apparently led him elsewhere. Sheriff T.K.
 
Looking east from Route 97, a man stands in the field of downed power lines and poles on Route 140 in Westminster, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, after powerful storms came through the area Monday evening. (Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP)
US east cleans up after deadly storms as New England braces for flooding
Crews across the eastern U.S. are working to clear downed trees and power lines and restore electricity following severe storms that killed at least two people, cut power hundreds of thousands, and forced thousands of flight delays and cancellations.
 
FILE - Attorney Ben Crump, second from left, walks with Ron Lacks, left, Alfred Lacks Carter, third from left, both grandsons of Henrietta Lacks, and other descendants of Lacks, outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore, Oct. 4, 2021. The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells. Their federal lawsuit in Baltimore claimed Thermo Fisher Scientific has made billions from tissue taken without the Black woman’s consent from her cervical cancer tumor. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark, file)
Henrietta Lacks’ family settles lawsuit with a biotech company that used her cells without consent
The family of Henrietta Lacks is settling a lawsuit against a biotechnology company it accuses of improperly profiting from her cells.
 
Search and rescue teams look for survivors in a former Dollar General after a tornado, Thursday, June 22, 2023, in Matador, Texas. A line of severe storms produced what a meteorologist calls a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail in west Texas, killing at least four people and causing significant damage around the town of Matador, a meteorologist said Thursday. (Annie Rice/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal via AP)
Tornadoes, hail and hurricane-force winds tear through west Texas, killing 4 people in small town
A line of severe storms produced a rare combination of multiple tornadoes, hurricane-force winds and softball-sized hail in west Texas. At least four people were killed and nine injured in the significant damage around the small town of Matador.
 
Mariana Valenzuela sifts through the tornado damaged home of her aunt and cousins in Perryton, Texas, Friday, June, 16, 2023. Cleanup efforts continued Friday after severe storms — including some that produced tornadoes — tore across a swath of Southern states, killing at least five people as they destroyed hundreds of homes, tossed vehicles into buildings and left hundreds of thousands without electricity. (AP Photo/David Erickson)
Destruction in Texas Panhandle: Storm blamed for 3 deaths wrecked mobile homes and main street
Residents of the Texas Panhandle town of Perryton are digging out of the rubble after a deadly tornado struck the town, shredding mobile homes and ripping apart brick buildings along main street.
 
Gamer dies while attempting 24-hour livestream for charity
A Virginia man who died at home while playing a 24-hour video game marathon was part of an online livestreaming community in which members sometimes go to extremes to build audiences, experts say.