A chemical release and fire at Marathon Petroleum Co.'s refinery prompted a mandatory evacuation Friday for part of Garyville, Louisiana.

The cleanup continues after a Sherwin-Williams plant in Garland, Texas, exploded earlier this week. In the first official assessment, the company will likely face consequences because it did not report the fiery incident and chemical release to the proper federal authorities in a timely manner.

Clorox has confirmed significant operational disruption caused by a recent cyber-attack. According to a notice published on the company’s website, the attack was detected on August 14, prompting Clorox’s IT team to take immediate action by halting suspicious activity and shutting down affected systems. The cyber-attack has disrupted Clorox’s manufacturing and distribution processes, affecting its ability to fulfil orders and maintain normal operations.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly called on Congress today to reauthorize the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program – which the cybersecurity chief said has resulted in improving the security posture of high-risk facilities by 60 percent. During the opening session of CISA’s Chemical Security Summit on Aug. 29, Easterly laid out how communities across the nation are at greater risk until Congress reauthorizes the program that has kept chemicals out of the hands of terrorists for nearly 17 years.

The Jacksonville shooter used to work at a dollar store and stopped in at one before a security guard’s presence apparently led him to instead target the Dollar General down the road, where he killed three people. He worked at a Dollar Tree from October 2021 to July 2022, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said. And, the sheriff said, he stopped at a Family Dollar store Saturday before pulling into a parking lot at Edward Waters University, where he donned tactical gear. He left when security approached.

During their investigation, detectives were able to determine two different criminal street gangs that were associated with the retail thefts at the Nike store. Deputies noted that the store, located in the 4500 block of Whittier Boulevard, has been targeted by organized theft several times in recent weeks, similar to a series of other flash mob and smash-and-grab robberies that have plagued major retailers in Los Angeles County including at an Yves Saint Laurent store in Glendale, a Nordstrom in Canoga Park and a Macy's in Arcadia.

A video game giveaway announced by social media influencer Kai Cenat drew a crowd of thousands to Union Square in Manhattan Friday. The massive gathering quickly degenerated into violence, with people throwing objects at NYPD officers, and nearby stores being forced to evacuate.

A flying drone halted play in the second quarter of UMass' season opener against New Mexico State in Las Cruces. A drone entered into the stadium and flew low overhead on the field, forcing officials to pause the game prior to a New Mexico State kickoff in the second quarter. Play resumed shortly after once the drone flew away.

A suspect in the shooting of two Florida police officers was fatally shot by SWAT team members Saturday several hours later after he barricaded himself in a hotel in Orlando’s tourist district, the culmination of a manhunt across central Florida, police officials said. Officers tracked the suspect down to a Holiday Inn near Universal Orlando Resort in the city’s tourist district and evacuated guests staying at the hotel. The suspect refused to come out of the hotel room and fired shots at officers who returned fire.

When severe weather rolled through during the Jason Aldean show Saturday, the Xfinity Center displayed a message on its video boards telling concertgoers to seek shelter in the venue or calmly proceed to their vehicles. However, concertgoers said police and staff gave differing directions on where to go and what to do.

Portable mobile hotspots have arrived in Maui to help bring internet service to the thousands of people who may have been unable to call for help since the wildfires started to rage out of control on the island. Verizon told CNN on Thursday its teams are currently deploying the first batch of satellite-based mobile hotspots at evacuation sites in areas of greatest need,

An indictment was unsealed yesterday in Tampa, Florida, charging a Polish national with computer fraud conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, and international money laundering in connection with the provision of “bulletproof” webhosting services that facilitated the operation of ransomware attacks and the subsequent laundering of the illicit proceeds.

An alleged car thief scrambled up a 320-foot radio tower while fleeing police officers Friday morning. He eventually came down after more than 12 hours and surrendered. He was seen jumping a security fence in the 9800 block of Riverdale Road. Once inside that perimeter, he began climbing the radio tower. Nearby roads were closed, the department's crisis negotiators were called to the scene, and four fire departments arrived to send personnel up the tower.

Ford has had a problem with vehicles thefts at company-owned lots and facilities as of late. Recently, more Ford F-150 pickups have disappeared from corporate storage locations around Dearborn, Michigan. But that was just the latest in a string of thefts that have seen many examples of the full-size pickup vanish, acts that also included engine thefts from recently built Raptor R pickups. Now, CBS Chicago reports that several 2023 Lincoln Aviator and Ford Explorer SUVs residing at Chicago Assembly plant were recently stolen. The value of the ten stolen vehicles is estimated to be around $750,000.

At least two people were arrested, and one other is on the run after allegedly stealing multiple cars from General Motor’s Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant early Thursday morning.

Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 of the company’s employees. “The investigation revealed that two former Tesla employees misappropriated the information in violation of Tesla’s IT security and data protection policies and shared it with the media outlet,” Steven Elentukh, Tesla’s data privacy officer, wrote in a data breach notice.

A group of hackers have exposed an exploit that can unlock Tesla’s software-locked features worth up to $15,000.

The City of Carnation, Washington, City Council voted unanimously to declare a state of emergency Wednesday evening after the most recent Tolt River Dam false evacuation alarm. The city council says that it is concerned for the safety of its residents as no all-clear signal was given after the incident. People living in the city have already asked that Seattle Public Utilities be held accountable after the first false alarm. Deputy Mayor Tim Harris blames the false alarms on the dam’s old and failing early alert system.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) advised dam and reservoir owners and operators to take proactive steps in preparation for severe weather.

Researchers say such glacial floods could threaten about 15 million people around the world. The flooding in Juneau came from a side basin of the awe-inspiring Mendenhall Glacier, which acts as a dam for the rain and melted snow that collect in the basin during the spring and summer. Eventually, the water gushed out from under the glacier and into Mendenhall Lake, from which it flowed down the Mendenhall River. Saturday’s event was astonishing because the water gushed so quickly, raising the river’s flows to about 1 1/2 times the highest previously recorded — so much that it washed away sensors that researchers had placed to study the glacial outburst phenomenon.

Residents and lawmakers are pushing to speed up repairs to the damaged Pajaro levee. With an El Niño winter approaching, they're not taking chances, they say.

Six years after unveiling plans to build a 320-foot high dam and reservoir at Pacheco Pass in southern Santa Clara County, the largest water district in Silicon Valley still hasn’t found any other water agencies willing to help fund the project. But this week, an unusual potential partner came to light: China.

A bubbling dispute over the future of a Gloucester County lake that was created by an aging dam has shed light on what officials say is a growing problem in New Jersey — deteriorating water infrastructure that’s in need of major fixes.

Two US Navy sailors have been indicted and arrested for allegedly sending sensitive US military information to Chinese intelligence officers. One of the sailors, Jinchao Wei, was arrested Wednesday as he arrived for work at Naval Base San Diego. The other sailor who has been arrested, Petty Officer Wenheng Zhao, worked at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme in California. The indictment against Wei was unsealed Thursday and is separate from the charges against Zhao.

US officials are currently investigating flaws in the national-security review process after an uneasy compromise to allow DuPont to sell its sustainable-materials business to a Chinese company, while ensuring that the technology behind it remained in the US. It is reported that the arrangement did not work as planned, exposing vulnerabilities in the battle over technology between the US and China and prompting an FBI investigation. The disagreement stemmed from a US intelligence assessment that byproducts from one of DuPont’s manufacturing processes could potentially be used as a high-quality base for fuel in cutting-edge weapons. This raised concerns over China’s military expansionism.

How the missing teen snuck onto the military base and how long she spent in the barracks remain a mystery — all visitors are stopped by Marines at the entrance of the sprawling base and are required to show authorization to enter. Marines are allowed to bring a visitor on base and into the barracks until a certain hour, which varies on what unit they are attached to.

A cyberattack on Thursday knocked computer systems offline at hospitals in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, forcing them to send ambulances to other hospitals, hospital spokespeople told CNN.

The Atlanta office of the FBI is now investigating threats against the Fulton County sheriff and district attorney.

Emergency officials say two firefighting helicopters collided while responding to a blaze in the desert east of Los Angeles, sending one to the ground in a crash that killed all three people on board.

A Broward County, Florida, sheriff’s fire rescue helicopter crashed into an apartment complex Monday morning, leaving two people dead and two others injured.

A former Dothan, Alabama, firefighter accused of illegally accessing sensitive information from Houston County law enforcement has had his bond permanently revoked for a previous theft charge.

The sister of the man police say killed a Pennsylvania State police trooper and seriously wounded another in June says her brother was suffering from a mental health crisis. Brandon Stine drove his truck into the state police’s Lewistown barracks parking lot in Juniata County about 11 a.m. on June 17. He opened fire with a large-caliber rifle on marked patrol cars before fleeing, said the Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner, and appeared to play a “cat and mouse” game with police - calling 911 to give a location where he would be and then not being there when police arrived, police said.

A Florida woman in her hospital gown is being charged after she allegedly stole an ambulance at a local hospital while its personnel were taking a patient inside.

The drone reportedly came within feet of the aircraft.

Hurricane Idalia weakened after making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida early Wednesday, but the storm’s threat to oil production in the Gulf of Mexico caused crude prices to tick higher.

Lawyers for victims suing Hawaiian Electric over this month’s deadly wildfire in Maui have subpoenaed a former consultant for the public utility, seeking his correspondence with top utility officials about their knowledge of wildfire risks and necessary upgrades to its power grid, according to a recent court filing. The lawsuit is one of at least 13 filed since the fire, which has killed at least 115 people.

At least two people were killed and more than a million lost power Monday night after a powerful storm slammed the eastern United States.

As temperatures cool off slightly in the coming weeks – at least to below 100 degrees – the electric grid may be less stressed temporarily, but the last few weeks’ extreme heat has revealed weak spots yet again. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas has so far issued eight requests this August for conservation as demand has soared, fueled by extreme temperatures, no rain, and booming population growth

Two individuals locked themselves to equipment in protest of the Mountain Vallery Pipeline on Friday morning.

On Saturday a woman was arrested at a protest in Montgomery Co. at the Mountain Valley Pipeline construction area on Bradshaw Road, Virginia State Police said.

3,500 Entergy customers in New Orleans East were without power for a time Monday because vandals tampered with a substation. That meant no A/C during the hottest August on record.

ComEd is seeking city of Elgin, Illinois, approval for some security enhancements the utility company is looking to make at a substation there. The changes are part of aligning with federal guidelines.

A man broke into a TVA substation in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, early Friday morning, authorities say.

The Anti-Defamation League has tracked 26 calls threatening violence at synagogues from New York to California over the last month.

A lawyer says a Tennessee judge has ordered a mental evaluation for a man charged with trying to enter a Jewish school with a gun and firing it at a contractor there before he was shot by police

A Deer Park man has been arrested for allegedly making terroristic threats at least twice in Nassau County. News 12 has been told Besart Astafa went to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Plainview, saying he wanted to be baptized. Court documents say he punched in the direction of two victims, striking one in the stomach, and lifted a large bag with unknown objects and said, “I’m a terrorist, I’m a terrorist.” Earlier this summer, he was arrested at a Farmingdale mosque for allegedly running around naked and punching a touchscreen tablet causing $2,000 in damage.

Jeffrey Harris is accused of threatening two women and trying to enter a predominantly African-American church on Sunday.

A 41-year-old city man accused of threatening two Catholic churches in Farmington was arrested after a standoff on Woodbine Street Friday night, police said.

A North Texas man has been arrested and charged with terroristic threat and cruelty to a non-livestock animal after allegedly shooting and killing a dog and threatening to kill others, according to police. According to the church, Collins was wearing a tactical vest, stuffed with ammunition, guns in his possession. A church administrator spoke calmly to Collins, who admitted to killing the dog and "planned further carnage," the church said.

The FBI and the Justice Department announced a multinational operation to disrupt and dismantle the malware and botnet known as Qakbot. "The FBI neutralized this far-reaching criminal supply chain, cutting it off at the knees," said FBI Director Christopher Wray. "The victims ranged from financial institutions on the East Coast to a critical infrastructure government contractor in the Midwest to a medical device manufacturer on the West Coast."

ATM skimmers were found at Paso Robles banks on Spring Street last Friday, Aug. 18. At nearly 10 a.m. on Friday, Coast Hills Federal Credit Union, 1402 Spring St., contacted the Paso Robles Police Department to report their ATM service technician located a skimmer device in the outside branch ATM.

Police are investigating the security breach at the Rohnert Park, California, Bank of America ATM in which one Santa Rosa resident said he had $1,000 stolen from his account.

The Edgartown man who feds say stole roughly $21,000 from a Falmouth bank at gunpoint in April has been charged with one count of armed bank robbery. Petar Petyoshin had been arrested on state charges of armed and masked robbery with a firearm, bomb/hijack threat, larceny over $1,200, carjacking, and seven counts of kidnapping.

A 29-year-old man is facing years in federal prison after admitting his role in two armed bank robberies in the region, one of which injured an employee.

New Android banking trojan alert: MMRat is stealthy malware targeting Southeast Asian users. It hijacks devices remotely for financial fraud.

After whipping winds and wildfires tore through swaths of Maui and Hawaii's Big Island this week, the state plans to establish an emergency loan program for farmers and ranchers who suffered property damage, Hawaii's Department of Agriculture announced.

Though sparsely populated by people, the area where Louisiana’s largest wildfire continues to rage is home to thousands of head of livestock. Getting those animals to safety has been a marathon for volunteers and staff at the arena and in small farming communities across the area, with the fire constantly at their doorstep.

The man accused of shooting and killing 10 people at a Boulder King Soopers in 2021 has been denied a second competency evaluation and is set for a restoration hearing to determine if he is fit to proceed to trial.

More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a special Justice Department unit.

The new indictment alleging a conspiracy by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia includes charges against several people accused of illegally accessing voting equipment in one rural county.

The Federal Election Commission has begun a process to potentially regulate AI-generated deepfakes in political ads ahead of the 2024 election.

A security scare on Capitol Hill that prompted a brief lockdown of Senate office buildings on Wednesday came in response to a potentially "bogus" 911 call about an active shooter, the U.S. Capitol Police chief said. "We've found no confirmation that there was an active shooter," Capitol Police chief Thomas Manger told reporters. The alert comes as law enforcement has heightened security ahead of former President Donald Trump's arraignment at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

Parents and students are on edge after the last week of bomb threats made against Oklahoma schools. Tulsa police said, "Out of an abundance of caution, campus police and school team members are instituting additional security measures." By Aug. 27, the threats had spread throughout other school districts and public facilities in Oklahoma. However, Union Public Schools have appeared to be the main, continuous target.

Numerous bomb threats were made in Chicago-area libraries over the past month. Last week’s book censorship news roundup included a look at six different libraries in the Chicago suburbs which received bomb threats, followed by two more bomb threats at an Oklahoma school district and a Davis, California, public library. Several of those libraries received not just one bomb threat, but several over the course of the week.

Suspected Chinese hackers disproportionately targeted and breached government and government-linked organizations worldwide in recent attacks targeting a Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) zero-day, with a focus on entities across the Americas.

The Rhysida ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the massive cyberattack on Prospect Medical Holdings, claiming to have stolen 500,000 social security numbers, corporate documents, and patient records. Prospect Medical Holdings (PMH) is a US healthcare company operating 16 hospitals in California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island and a network of 166 outpatient clinics and centers. The cyberattack caused the hospitals to shut down their IT networks to prevent the attack's spread, forcing hospitals back to using paper charts.

Hospital health care group battling to restore service while continuing to provide patient care. A massive systemwide computer and internet systems failure is severely disrupting operations within the Hospital Sisters Health System. HSHS, which runs St. Mary’s Hospital in Decatur, Illinois, St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital in Effingham, Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville and HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, said it was following emergency procedures to continue to provide in-patient and out-patient care.

Shootings and other attacks are increasing at hospitals across the US, contributing to health care becoming one of the nation's most violent fields.

Hackers breached a crucial real estate listing software from the Rapattoni Corporation earlier this month, and Bay Area realtors are feeling it — but there's no foreseeable fix yet.

Hackers are targeting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) SSL VPNs in credential stuffing and brute-force attacks that take advantage of lapses in security defenses, such as not enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Juniper firewalls, Openfire, and Apache RocketMQ servers are being actively targeted by cybercriminals.

China has 21 nuclear reactors under construction which will have a capacity for generating more than 21 gigawatts of electricity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The United States currently has one nuclear reactor under construction, the fourth reactor at the Vogtle power plant in Georgia, which will be able to generate just over 1 gigawatt.

Tropical Storm Hilary has drenched Southern California, swept people into swollen rivers, toppled trees onto homes and flooded roads. Crews worked to clear away the debris Monday.

Baltimore Boulevard remains shut down Tuesday morning after the damage. Baltimore Boulevard remains shut down after a storm knocked down more than 30 utility poles along a main Westminster road Monday, trapping dozens in their cars. Maryland State Police said 33 adults and 14 children were rescued after 34 cars were trapped in fallen powerlines on Route 140. BGE worked to de-energize the powerlines so that they could evacuate people from their cars.

The FBI and Saratoga County, New York, Sheriff are investigating a case that involves tampering of a railroad track. According to officials, the “deliberate tampering” is associated with the Saratoga Corinth and Hudson Railway passenger line. It happened somewhere on tracks parallel to Route 9N near Emery Lane. “It is our understanding that a derailment of a train on this rail line would have resulted in serious injury or death,” said the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Albany Field Office.

Sparks flew as one of the engines of Alaska Airlines flight 1288 from Seattle hit the ground on the plane's landing at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana.

Hurricane Idalia came ashore in Taylor County, Florida on Wednesday morning as a Category 3 storm, bringing a massive storm surge and powerful winds to the state’s Big Bend region.

The city of Bradenton, Florida, says its water treatment plant was temporarily offline until high tides, pushed by Hurricane Idalia, receded Wednesday.

The wildfire is burning less than two miles from the city’s two main reservoirs, but officials said it’s not threatening the water supply.

The legionella bacteria that causes the illness has been found in 113 patients in hospital in Rzeszow, in Poland's southeast, a key transport hub for international military support for Ukraine. Some 10,000 US troops are also stationed in the area. Poland's domestic security agency is investigating whether the outbreak that has killed seven people is the result of intentional tampering with its water system, authorities have said.