A shelter-in-place was issued June 27 at the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City. The refinery experienced a unit disruption, which caused a heavy smell of sulfur to fill the air. All of Texas City east of 146 was under the shelter-in-place order for a short period while the issue was being resolved.

Health officials expect no impact to people or the environment after a small amount of phosphorous was released into the air June 21 from the Lanxess chemical plant in the Neck Area. The toxic chemical escaped from a clogged pipe attached to a storage tank, according to the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control. Its release set off the King Street facility’s alarm system and alerted the Charleston Fire Department.

Residents, lawyers and environmental groups point to aging facilities and reluctant state regulators as reasons for the continued string of industrial fires.

Target stores in at least five states reportedly received bomb threats as the retailer continues to face backlash to decisions regarding Pride merchandise.

According to the indictment, on April 26, 2023, the man posted comments to a Facebook post for Nashville Pride and threatened to “make shrapnel pressure cooker bombs for this event.” In another comment posted the same day, he threatened to “commit a mass shooting.”

James Kelly told police he took mushrooms before fatally shooting a Seattle couple at the Beyond Wonderland festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre.

Authorities with the Ontario, California Police Department are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who caused mass panic after making false threats at the Ontario Mills Mall.

Police are trying to find out how an office space came to host a party that left one dead and 10 more injured.

Grant Park will also see an increased police presence as the NASCAR Chicago Street Race and Fourth of July festivities bring large crowds Downtown.

A federal judge on Friday handed out punishment to three more members of a conspiracy to set Gulf Coast Walmart stores on fire.

The Justice Department on May 11 announced the seizure of 13 domains used by Specially Designated Nationals (SNDs), Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), and their members associated with Lebanese Hezbollah. “Today’s web domain seizures deny terrorist organizations and affiliates significant sources of support and makes clear we will not allow these groups to use U.S. infrastructure to threaten the American people,” said Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

On Tuesday, the joint investigative team arrested 28-year-old Dylan Shane Conner, of Buena Vista.

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A solar storm portends the remote possibility that within the next decade, the people of Earth could be left without internet access for months.

A DMAX factory owned by GM canceled production after a fatal shooting May 18 at the plant. The plant supplies engines to Flint Assembly.

Siemens Energy has confirmed that data was stolen during the recent Clop ransomware data-theft attacks using a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform.

Smyrna Fire Department responded to chemical spill at the Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant that sent six employees to the hospital on May 3.

When winter storms slammed the Central Coast this year, the levee along the Arroyo Grande Creek was one of the areas most impacted.

After the discovery of a sinkhole near a dam on McDonald Farm, Hamilton County commissioners will decide whether to hire a company, Geosyntec Consultants, for almost $101,500 to evaluate how to best address issues with the structure.

Officials say a key dam in Puerto Rico that was severely damaged by Hurricane Maria will be rebuilt and improved. The U.S.

One superstorm could send walls of water sweeping through populated areas. There’s not much time to act.

Addressing flooding on the Pajaro River has been an issue for more than a century. Its location separating two counties — Santa Cruz and Monterey — means it has never gotten the full attention of either.

Suriya Jayanti explains the devastating global impacts of the Kakhovka Dam bombing.

The Biden administration is sending up to $500 million in military aid to Ukraine, including more than 50 heavily armored vehicles and an infusion of missiles for air defense systems.

The U.S. military has struggled to overcome recruiting shortfalls and as a way to try to address that problem, it's stepping up efforts to sign up immigrants. The military has had success in recruiting legal immigrants, particularly among those seeking a job, education benefits and training as well as a quick route to becoming an American citizen. But they also require additional security screening.

A hospital in Idaho has been diverting ambulances to other hospitals for more than 24 hours because of a cyberattack, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Wednesday in the latest example of a hacking incident complicating health care in the US.

Two members of the self-styled 2nd American Militia who conspired to go “to war with border patrol” have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a conspiracy to murder Border Patrol officers, which ended in a shootout with FBI agents who arrested them on the eve of their planned trip to the United States – Mexico border.

The indictment alleges the three men were utilizing drones to convey illegal drugs, phones and other contraband onto the grounds of several prisons in Ohio.

Montana passes a law increasing penalties against drone pilots whose flights interfere with firefighting efforts to battle blazes.

Over 400,000 people were without power June 26 after storms battered parts of the country June 25. Here's a look at what states were affected.

The energy industry is increasingly targeted by malicious actors and threat groups through activity on the dark web, according to a report from

One person died from a steam engine explosion at the Oak Grove Power Plant off F.M. 979 between Bremond and Franklin on May 31, according to Robertson County Emergency Management.

More than 50 million people across a large swath of the United States were under a severe weather threat June 16, one day after storms cut a deadly path across Texas and Florida. 220,000 homes and businesses across Texas were in the dark, according to the tracking website Poweroutage.us. In neighboring Louisiana, more than 130,000 were without power, and outages were also reported in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. In Mississippi, more than 120,000 customers were without power.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $15,000 for information related to threats to religious centers in Omaha. According to authorities, the author of a threatening note claims to represent Jane's Revenge — an abortion rights extremist group that Homeland Security has linked to arson attacks against buildings of ideological opponents.

A suspect who allegedly professed neo-Nazi ideologies online was arrested after federal investigators allege he planned a mass shooting. A search of the suspect's phone found a message in the Notes app where he had identified a synagogue in East Lansing, a date, and a list of equipment.

A truck driver who expressed hatred of Jews has been convicted of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath and fatally shooting 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die.

The hackers responsible for exploiting a flaw to target users of a popular file transfer tool has begun listing victims of the mass-attacks

A Patterson woman is accused of Computer Tampering at her former job at a bank.

The Collin County Sheriff's Office told WFAA there were no injuries reported in the roof collapse.

Five men were charged by San Diego federal prosecutors with stealing tens of thousands of dollars in public-assistance benefits from low-income families.

On June 8, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that will compensate farmers and ranchers for property damage due to border-related bailouts, human trafficking, and smuggling crimes. “With increased trafficking and smuggling along the Texas border and in rural communities, ranchers and farmers have reported significant financial losses and property damage to their fences, crops, livestock, equipment, and other property," said Senator César J. Blanco, author of the Senate Bill 1133, which establishes a grant program under the Office of the Attorney General.

Kroger, Walmart and other retailers report anonymous threats, prompting law-enforcement investigations.

Officials confirmed the explosion was caused by an aluminum chloride solution and that one person died following the incident.

An investigation in April revealed the juvenile had inserted sewing needles in food items, according to the district attorney.

Giant Foods, which is headquartered in Landover, Maryland, may be forced to close some stores if an uptick in thefts and violence continues, the grocery store chain’s president says.

A veteran from New Hampshire has been charged with threatening to kill a sitting US senator by phone, stating he was angry over the politician’s alleged handling of veteran benefit programs, according to federal authorities.

Two months after a ransomware attack, the Dallas City Council approved a nearly $4 million contract for network threat detection.

"We don't believe that Mr. Giordani acted alone," a federal prosecutor said in court.

Former US President Donald Trump has been charged over his handling of classified documents after he left the White House. Trump faces seven charges, including illegally retaining classified documents under the Espionage Act. It is against US law for federal officials - including a president - to remove or keep classified documents at an unauthorized location.

From Maryland to the Canadian capital, a monstrous cloud of smoke spewed by Quebec’s wildfires has forced children to stay indoors, grounded flights in New York City and left millions of residents at risk of breathing unhealthy air.

A massive data breach has been reported by Managed Care of North America, a provider of dental benefits and services for state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs. More than 8.9 million individuals have been affected.

After more than 13 hours of deliberations, jurors could not unanimously agree on the guilt or innocence of two doctors accused of providing their patients' private medical information to Russia.

Approximately 2.5 million customers were impacted by the attack on the insurer's parent company.

MOVEit has created a patch to fix the issue and urges customers to take action to protect their environments, as Cl0p attacks continue to mount, including on government targets.

Think before you chat with ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing Chat, or any other AI chatbot.

Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages to Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive web portals resulted from Layer 7 DDoS attacks against the company's services.

SolarWinds — the technology firm at the center of a December 2020 hack that affected multiple U.S. government agencies — said its executives may soon face charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its response to the incident.

Fire alarms went off after an external transformer malfunctioned, the utility said, but there was no fire and no threat to the public or to plant workers.

Enough electricity to power almost 250,000 homes disappeared from the Texas grid June 16. ERCOT tapped a newly-created reserve system to prevent an emergency.

U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal introduced a resolution June 22 to respond to the Russian Federation delivering tactical nuclear weapons to the Republic of Belarus. Graham and Blumenthal noted their resolution holds that any use of a tactical nuclear weapon by Russia, Belarus or their proxies, or the destruction of a nuclear facility that disperses radioactive contaminants into NATO territory would be viewed as an attack on NATO itself, requiring an Article V response.

From how fast you can go to what's next, here's what to know about the temporary lanes on I-95 in Northeast Philadelphia that reopened June 23.

Flights to and from LaGuardia, Philadelphia and Newark have been impacted, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Pierce County prosecutors have charged a 65-year-old homeless man with derailing an oil train May 9 as it approached the Port of Tacoma.

An Inland Empire woman has been arrested on federal charges alleging the use of counterfeit postage to ship millions of parcels as part of a fraudulent scheme that caused the United States Postal Service to suffer losses estimated to be more than $60 million over just six months.

What started as a 7- to 8-foot crack in the roadway of Highway 178 over Memorial Day weekend could become a major headache for the Kern River Valley's tourism business.

A former city employee was charged with making a terrorism hoax after allegedly threatening to contaminate Oklahoma City's water.

A worker was fired after being accused of urinating twice in a water supply tank at a treatment plant in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Surveillance video released by Ascension Parish officials appears to capture the man in the act in the March 22 incident.

Authorities say work remains after train cars containing asphalt, molten sulfur and metal derailed in Stillwater County June 24 and fell into the Yellowstone River.

Arizona officials announced June 1 the state will no longer grant certifications for new developments within the Phoenix area, as groundwater rapidly disappears amid years of water overuse and climate change-driven drought.