Officials say a fire at a Louisiana chemical plant triggered explosions that shook homes several miles away and sent flames and smoke billowing into the air.

Homes were evacuated for precautionary reasons in Whitemarsh Township July 17 after a 40-car CSX freight train derailed near Stenton Avenue and Joshua Road, police said. Officials said 15 cars came off the Northern Southern tracks. One of the cars was transporting Tetrachloroethylene, a hazardous material, but there are no indications of any leaks or spills, CSX said.

New information has been released after multiple agencies responded to an explosive found at a Ponca City casino and hotel.

Matthew Mannix was “extremely high” on drugs while he held a woman against her will in a Caesars Palace hotel room for several hours, taunting police by “opening and closing the door” and claiming he had “a magazine full of rounds” and that he “would pull the trigger,” according to his arrest report. The July 11 ordeal sent guests running from the pool area when Mannix broke a window and began throwing out objects including chairs that fell 21 floors to the pool deck below.

Young rioters went on a daylight looting spree June 30 in the French city of Strasbourg, targeting an Apple Store and other shops following the fatal shooting of a teen by a policeman near Paris.

A man who escaped a New Hampshire prison was identified as the armed man who took hostages and made threats at a Miami Victoria's Secret before he was shot and killed by a police officer. Video showed police going door to door to evacuate various stores in the area.

After thorough searches at each store, JSO says nothing nefarious was found.

A three-act rock concert the night of July 8 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center was canceled due to a bomb threat just before the beginning of the headline set by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Three radio towers in Washington County, Vermont, that are used to dispatch ambulances and firefighters are not currently functional, Montpelier’s chief of police said on July 11, adding that Washington Electric has been notified to attempt repairs.

Officials in a county near the southern border of Nebraska say they’re investigating the destruction of a communications tower owned by Strayer Communications. Authorities were alerted to the damage in March. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Furnace County Sheriff’s Office at 308-268-2245.

Two southeastern Minnesota men are facing charges in connection to an attempted pipe theft at a Rochester-area radio tower that court documents say was thwarted by law enforcement on July 14.

A giant sunspot, seven times the width of Earth, exploded on July 2, creating a powerful solar flare that lashed Earth's atmosphere and caused a radio blackout over parts of the U.S. and the pacific ocean.

Authorities investigating the July 18 hoax threat at the Ford plant in Claycomo, Missouri made an arrest July 19, according to the Clay County Sheriff. The suspect has been charged with one count of making a terroristic threat. Ford ceased all production and evacuated 2200 workers at the plant. They also canceled production for the night shift. The road in front of the Ford plant on 69 Highway was also closed.

Bond was denied June 28 for the suspect involved in the death of a man who was shot outside Howard Industries, a transformer plant, on May 5 in Jones County, Mississippi. After the shooting, the suspect fled inside the plant, according to the LPD. Employees were leaving the plant as law enforcement was entering, causing a chaotic scene that officers treated as an active shooter incident until they could safely determine the suspect had fled the scene.

San Antonio police report a man who barricaded himself inside a guard shack at the Toyota manufacturing plant on July 8 has been arrested and will be charged with aggravated robbery, criminal trespass, and criminal mischief. The man, who police say was armed with a knife, refused orders to leave the guard shack and took the guard's phone. The security officer left the shack and called police, which is when the man barricaded himself inside. SWAT and police were able to get the man to surrender after several hours.

A storm that dumped up to two months of rain in two days in Vermont and other parts of the Northeast brought more flooding on July 11 to communities that included the state capital Montpelier, where officials said that river levels at a dam just upstream appeared to be stable. Montpelier Town Manager Bill Fraser said the Wrightsville Dam remains a lingering concern but that the city was shifting to a recovery mode.

Parts of Cheshire County, New Hampshire, were among the areas hardest hit by flooding in the past couple of days. In Winchester, about 40 people filled sandbags to protect the Forest Lake Dam, but the water was too strong and carried away the concrete spillway. The Forest Lake Dam Association had plans to rebuild the nearly 100-year-old dam in the fall, but after the flooding from this week's storms, a shorter-term fix is needed.

Early on July 11, the spillway dam on Jennings Pond was breached, releasing water into the community and into Long Lake, New York.

The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of a utility trailer at the Poland Lock & Dam on July 7.

American intelligence officials believe the malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations, including during a Chinese move against Taiwan.

The FBI announced a reward of up to $250,000 for information in the unsolved 2008 bombing of the United States Armed Forces Recruiting Station in Times Square.

It’s a growing problem that has United States naval commanders scratching their heads: How to keep up with China’s ever-expanding fleet of warships.

Fargo's police chief says a gunman opened fire on police and firefighters “for no known reason” as they responded to a traffic crash in North Dakota. One officer was killed and two others were wounded before a fourth officer killed him.

Ransomware continues to plague regional governments in the U.S., with a Wisconsin county announcing a “catastrophic software failure” following an alleged LockBit ransomware attack. “Langlade County Sheriff’s Office is experiencing a catastrophic software failure. All phone lines are non-functioning. 911 calls for assistance will be rerouted and handled,” the local sheriff’s office said, providing a temporary phone number for those in need of assistance.

The Town of Cornelius, a prominent Charlotte suburb, discovered the cybersecurity incident on July 11. Cornelius Police Department said the main phone line to the police department is down because of the attack. They provided alternate phone numbers for those in need of the police.

A 19-year-old from Alabama was arrested after he threw a “mortar style” firework under a Panama City Beach Police cruiser. Panama City Beach police said the teenager was charged with throwing a deadly missile and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. The investigation is ongoing, and more arrests could be forthcoming.

So far this year there have been 8,627 car thefts compared to 7,319 last year for a 17.9% increase, even as other serious crimes have ticked down, NYPD data show.

A Mercer, Pennsylvania, resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of interstate threats and influencing or retaliating against a federal officer by threat.

A former analyst with the Kansas City Division of the FBI was sentenced in federal court June 21 for illegally retaining documents related to the national defense at her residence. She was an intelligence analyst for the FBI for more than 12 years, from 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017. She was assigned to a sequence of different FBI squads, each of which had a particular focus, such as illegal drug trafficking, violent crime, violent gangs and counterintelligence.

The dangerous heat scorching the middle of the country and the East Coast did not let up on Friday. More than 180 million Americans were under heat alerts -- with some states seeing record-breaking temperatures. CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi reports on how the U.S. power grid is holding up.

Phoenix would likely suffer more than other big cities, because extreme heat here is more extreme and because more people rely on air conditioning.

Prosecutors alleged Cameron Monte Smith shot bullets and caused power to be lost for 243 people. Investigators also found the word "DAPL" spray-painted outside the substation, court documents said.

A Lafayette man was arrested after he allegedly shot an electric substation in St. Martinville, Louisiana, authorities said. Joshua Anderson, 21, of Lafayette, has been charged with criminal damage to a critical infrastructure, a felony, according to St. Martin Parish Sheriff Becket Breaux.

Security cameras and the watchful eyes of security guards may have stopped a group of people from knocking out power at a station on June 5 in Tacoma, Washington. Prosecutors say this particular power vault is connected to the South Sound 911 system, so knocking that out could have done great harm to the community.

A person broke into the facility and manipulated a control panel, police said.

Officers are looking for a man wanted after copper wire was stolen from two electric substations in the city of Morganton. Terry Pittman, 57, of Morganton, is wanted for two counts of felony cutting, mutilating, defacing or otherwise injuring property to obtain nonferrous metals after copper wire thefts from a city of Morganton substation and a Duke Energy substation in June, said Morganton Public Safety Chief Jason Whisnant.

Officials in Greenwood Co. are on the hunt for those behind the theft of $100,000 in electrical wire and equipment from a Eureka substation.

Duke Energy is working to restore power to thousands of customers in Indiana following the severe and damaging storms that ripped through Indiana Thursday. As of 3:30 p.m. ET Friday afternoon, crews have restored power for nearly 130,000 customers.

Two people are facing charges for threatening a mosque in east Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Kandiyohi County Sheriff's Office says it was alerted by authorities in Lee County, Florida, that a resident "may pose a threat" to the First Christian Reformed Church, located in Prinsburg, Minnesota.

A man was arrested Saturday and is accused of threatening to shoot up a Fort Worth-area church, according to police.

The threat actors are distributing their malware via the Play Store, and already had over 30,000 installations as of March. The focus of the ongoing campaign is banks from the US, UK, and Germany, while the target list of the malware contains almost 600 financial applications from all over the world, ThreatFabric said in its research.

Ransomware gang Cl0p is currently threatening 50 companies with releasing data it stole from them in late May. To date, the sector with the largest share of victims has been financial services — specifically banks and credit unions.

Washington, D.C., authorities said three local businesses were hit with explosive devices and a Molotov cocktail on July 2. The attacks happened within a 15-minute span in the Northeast section of the city. At approximately 4:30 a.m., the suspect detonated an explosive device on the sidewalk outside the ATM of a Truist Bank, causing damage at the location, authorities said.

The FBI of Kansas City responded to the Bank of America at 1818 E North Avenue in Belton, Missouri, on July 15 on reports of an ATM bank robbery. Two suspects approached a victim, who was working on an ATM, and threatened the victim. The suspects fled the scene with a confidential amount of money, per a press release.

A Pennsylvania man with white supremacist ties faces a maximum prison sentence of five years in connection to a bank heist plot in Johnstown, according to federal law enforcement officials. The man pleaded guilty on June 23 in U.S. District Court to his alleged involvement in a three-man attempt to commit armed robbery at Community Bank on North Comrie Avenue.

A misunderstanding between an angry patron and a bank employee leads to first responders answering on July 19 to the US Bank on South 6th Street in Klamath Falls, Oregon, for a bomb threat.

A convicted bank robber failed to hold up a bank in Elizabeth by threatening a "mass shooting" and then succeeded at another in Springfield, New Jersey, by placing a device in front of a teller that he said was a bomb, federal authorities said.

Substantial crop damage has occurred on farms across Vermont as a result of July flooding. The flood comes in the middle of the growing season and after a May freeze damaged early plantings. Vermont Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts says losses will be catastrophic for farmers, small businesses and agriculture producers and he expects some farm closures. Tebbetts cautions that the disruptions in agriculture caused by flooding may disrupt the regional food system.

Police arrested a man after he reportedly threatened to shoot his wife and her co-workers at the Miller Brewing plant in Fort Worth.

A former shift supervisor at a Muhlenberg Township, Pennsylvania bottling plant is accused of stealing truckloads of water that was produced specifically for large retailers but instead was being sold by the case at various corner grocery stores in Reading. Police said the case involved more than $28,000 worth of products.

Multiple Cincinnati Kroger locations were evacuated on July 10 after bomb threats, Cincinnati Police confirmed. In June, seven stores across the Tri-State – Newport, Bellevue, Oakley, North College Hill, Corryville, Cold Spring and Erlanger – were all evacuated after reported bomb threats.

A weekly community outreach event was underway in the parking lot when someone fired "dozens and dozens" of rounds at the group.

The hackers penetrated the accounts of senior State Department officials, including the U.S. ambassador to China.

Republican state lawmakers in Tennessee received threatening letters containing a suspicious substance June 22, prompting an investigation by the FBI, officials said.

The Hayward City Council approved a local emergency at a meeting July 13. The declaration comes just days after the city was hit by a ransomware attack. A Hayward city spokesperson says the emergency declaration allows the city's executive functions to work more efficiently to direct staffing, acquire expertise and equipment faster. The ransomware attack attempted to disrupt and hold hostage parts of the city's networks and computer systems.

Multiple bomb threats in Casper on July 19 interrupted a Gaming Commission meeting and forced hundreds of state employees to evacuate the Thyra Thomson building. Within two hours, an arrest was made.

In December 2022, a series of threats began toward Laguna Hills High School staff and students after a championship football game. These threats spanned through June 2023 and included three false reports of a possible shooter approaching the school’s campus, a bomb threat, a death threat via telephone, and at least ten known death threats via written letters utilizing the U.S. Postal Service.

Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried about what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

Department of Homeland Security agents are warning Metro Detroit businesses and government entities of recent cyber attacks holding their data hostage, according to a press release issued July 12.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a man is in custody after making a bomb threat at the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office.

A U.S. Army soldier pleaded guilty June 14 to terrorism charges for trying to help ISIS attack and kill U.S. forces in the Middle East, and target the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.

The CDC found at least 20 potentially infectious agents at the warehouse in Fresno County. An investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada and unlicensed for business in California. City officials spoke with Xiuquin Yao, who was identified as the company president, through emails included in court documents. Officials were unable to get any California-based address for either company except for the previous Fresno location from which UMI had been evicted.

A major Pfizer pharmaceutical plant was severely damaged after a deadly tornado ripped through North Carolina on July 19. 50,000 pallets of medicine were strewn across the facility and damaged through the rain and the wind. The plant produces anesthesia and other drugs as well as nearly 25% of all sterile injectable medications used in U.S. hospitals.

Police believe that the suspect was a long-term patient of the Campbell Clinic, and the Collierville Police Chief told CBS News "he had visited multiple sites” within the network. It was a one-on-one targeted attack. WREG reported that the suspect had previous run-ins with law enforcement. In one case, he told police he had mental health issues, and was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had been off his medication.

A video issued July 11 by the FBI’s Denver office confirmed that the suspects in last year’s arson at Longmont’s Life Choices pregnancy center have ties to Boulder County, Colorado. The pregnancy center at 20 Mountain View Ave. was set on fire and vandalized the day after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade.

Federal court documents filed July 10 show that a woman who authorities say admitted setting fire to what was to become Wyoming's only full-service abortion clinic has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Over one million patients and staff members were affected by a data breach at Tampa General Hospital (TGH) earlier this year. The hospital announced on July 19 that hackers gained access to the personal information of 1.2 million people during what it described as “a recent cybersecurity event” that lasted 18 days.

Ransomware attackers steal the personal information of more than 600,000 Medicare beneficiaries.

James Lewis, who was convicted of extortion for promising to stop the 1982 Tylenol poisonings for $1 million – but denied he was behind the seven deaths, has been found dead, police said July 10. The Massachusetts man served time for sending Johnson & Johnson a letter in 1982 vowing he’d stop the killings that set off panic. The unsolved Chicago-area deaths occurred after the over-the-counter Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules were laced with potassium cyanide.

Chinese hackers exploited a flaw in Microsoft’s cloud email service to gain access to the email accounts of U.S. government employees, the technology giant has confirmed. The hacking group, tracked as Storm-0558, compromised approximately 25 email accounts, including government agencies, as well as related consumer accounts linked to individuals associated with these organizations, according to Microsoft.

The recently discovered SophosEncrypt ransomware with RAT capabilities is impersonating the cybersecurity firm Sophos.

Security researchers have dissected a recently emerged ransomware strain named 'Big Head' that may be spreading through malvertising that promotes fake Windows updates and Microsoft Word installers.

The Abyss Locker operation is the latest to develop a Linux encryptor to target VMware's ESXi virtual machines platform in attacks on the enterprise.

The radioactive item that went missing in New Mexico the week of June 26 was found July 3. ABC-7 got word from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the gauge was found after Mexican authorities alerted it was lost in Southern New Mexico. The item that contained iridium-192 caused the Mexican government to alert the states of Chihuahua and Sonora of the dangers this item could bring to the region.

The SPEC-150 radiographic camera, used for industrial purposes, was returned to Houston-based Statewide Maintenance Company, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. More than two months after it went missing from the parking lot of a Houston Whataburger, the industrial camera containing radioactive material was found intact and returned to its owner, Houston-based Statewide Maintenance Company.

Gov. Phil Scott on July 11 called the flooding in Vermont historic and catastrophic. The governor himself hiked a VAST trail from his home in order to hold his news conference. Countless roads were washed out -- 78 state roads alone. That doesn’t include local and back roads. President Biden has approved a disaster declaration for all 14 counties in Vermont.

Many roads across central New Hampshire remain closed on July 17 a day after major floods impacted the state. Flash flood warnings were in effect for much of the Granite State on July 16, and two tornado warnings were issued for parts of southern New Hampshire. Alton, located in the Lakes Region, was particularly hard hit, with the Department of Public Works saying Sunday that "most roads" in town were closed due to flooding, washouts and mudslides. They shared photos showing major damage to roads across town.

Brandon Scott pled not guilty to one count of false information and hoaxes on Thursday. The charges stem from his attempt to divert a plane by saying he had a bomb. The man suspected of making a false bomb threat on Alaska Airlines flight 334 on July 5 appeared in federal court July 20 to enter a not guilty plea.

Hazmat crews were called in, but police said there is no known hazard to the public.

A tornado July 19 in North Carolina did damage in the eastern part of the state. Debris on I-95 has closed the interstate.

Tornadoes and thunderstorms battered the greater Chicago area on July 12, temporarily forcing O'Hare and Midway airports to halt all air traffic, officials said, as tornado sirens echoed through the third biggest U.S. city.

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck near the Alaskan coast July 15, prompting the NWS to issue and then cancel a tsunami warning. The center's earlier update had been an advisory, urging locals near the coast to "move off the beach and out of harbors and marinas."

Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies teamed up in June for a unique maritime exercise along the Buffalo River.

A man was arrested after making a false bomb threat at Miami International Airport. He was traveling July 18 on American Airlines Flight 929 bound for Brazil when a dispute arose between him and an American Airlines gate agent.

The port of Nagoya, which is connected to approximately 170 countries around the world, was not operational from the morning of July 4 to the afternoon of July 6. LockBit 3.0, a pro-Russia ransomware group, made a ransom demand in exchange for the system’s recovery. The port was unable to load and unload containers from trailers, due to the ransomware attack.

A Southwest Airlines flight traveling from Las Vegas to Maui diverted to Oakland due to a bomb threat sent by AirDrop, a spokesperson for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office told SFGATE.

Across Vermont, flooding haswsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/passenger-arrested-at-miami-international-airport-after-making-false-bomb-threat-during-dispute affected operations at 33 wastewater treatment facilities, state officials said.

In January of 2021, after the contractor had resigned from Company A, he allegedly accessed the facility’s computer system remotely and transmitted a command to uninstall software that was the main hub of the facility’s computer network and that protected the entire water treatment system, including water pressure, filtration, and chemical levels.

Authorities say evidence seized from a former Oklahoma City Lake Hefner Water Treatment Plant employee shows he was allegedly planning to poison the water supply.

The town's water pumps began to fail over the weekend of July 15.

The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority says the North Rivanna Water Treatment Plant is still closed. The plant was closed at the beginning of July due to harmful levels of bacteria in the drinking water.

July storms and heavy rain caused damage next to the Greenwood City Lake dam, leaving the city unable to treat its drinking water.