A massive fire at a chemical plant in rural Texas on November 8 sent a plume of black smoke into the sky as officials closed down a local highway and ordered residents to take shelter for several hours. Officials in San Jacinto County said the explosion took place at Sound Resource Solutions.

CSX is facing a class action lawsuit over the sulfur dioxide that was released into the air when a train derailed in eastern Kentucky the day before Thanksgiving. The lawsuit contends that CSX should have spaced wayside detectors more closely on its network in order to improve detection of a wheel bearing failure.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that it will investigate after a drone briefly delayed the Ravens-Bengals game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on November 16. The Maryland Stadium Authority said Maryland State Police and authority officials found the operator, who was directed to immediately land the drone.

The California Democratic Party convention was abruptly derailed as pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center and forced the party to cancel events for the night, despite enhanced security measures at the convention hall.

Frontier Communications has described an alarming increase in copper wire thefts to Public Service Commission officials. The company claims wire thefts are higher in West Virgina than the other 25 states the company serves. Copper thefts jumped 70% last year and are up another 13% so far this year.

Pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the News Corp headquarters in New York City where Fox News' headquarters are located. A total of 16 people were arrested at the demonstration, according to the New York City Police Department.

A Florida man remains in the Travis County Jail after allegedly making threats against Tesla's Cybertruck delivery event on November 30. Tesla was notified on November 10 about an Instagram group chat where the suspect was allegedly making threats.

General Motors’ Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street in early October.

Rubber bladders designed to alter water levels at the Lewiston Falls dam in Maine were vandalized in early October, said dam operator Brookfield White Pine Hydro. A temporary flashboard system has since been installed which will keep levels at about 6 inches lower than normal.

A federal judge has found the former Edenville Dam owner liable for almost $120 million in damage to Michigan natural resources. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources estimated that the 2020 Edenville Dam collapse and resulting flood caused more than $21 million in damage to state fisheries, and at least $90 million in damage to an ecosystem for freshwater mussels.

General Electric and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have reportedly been breached, according to claims on the Dark Web that the organizations' highly sensitive stolen data is up for sale.

Hypersonic missiles can attack with extreme speed and stealth, be launched from great distances and evade most air defenses. China and Russia have them — but the U.S. doesn’t.

A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter air crew from Air Station Sitka crashed with four people aboard on Read Island during a search and rescue mission.

Derek Chauvin is now the second high-profile federal prisoner to be stabbed in recent months, after Larry Nasser was stabbed in a Florida federal prison in July. Visits at the Tuscon prison, where Chauvin is serving his sentence, were suspended in the aftermath of the stabbing.

Twenty-two crews from NorthWestern Energy are assisting Avista in the largest natural gas outage in the utility company's history. The NorthWestern Energy crew members left from Missoula, Montana, on November 10, to assist Avista crews restore natural gas service for Avista customers in Idaho and Washington.  

The 5.2 magnitude earthquake is tied for the fourth strongest in Texas history. It occurred in an area where oilfield companies have long been injecting wastewater from fracking underground.

Governor Hochul deployed new resources to continue combating the ongoing rise in online hate speech across New York. Data tracked by the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services shows a 425% increase in online hate speech against Jewish communities and a 417% increase against Muslim communities.

The Nashville Police Department has suspended seven detectives amid an ongoing investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of documents written by Nashville Christian school shooter Audrey Hale in which she vowed to "kill those kids."

Fidelity National Financial, one of the largest real estate services companies in the United States, said it “contained” a recent cyberattack that engulfed its many subsidiaries and customers in a state of chaos for more than a week.

Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.’s U.S. unit had been hit by a cyberattack, rendering it unable to clear swathes of U.S. Treasury trades after entities responsible for settling the transactions swiftly disconnected from the stricken systems. The incident spotlights a danger that bank leaders concede keeps them up at night — the prospect of a cyber attack that could someday cripple a key piece of the financial system’s wiring, setting off a cascade of disruptions.

Peaches, plums and nectarines distributed by HMC Farms and sold nationwide are being recalled due to an outbreak of listeria that has resulted in 11 illnesses, including one death and 10 hospitalizations, federal safety regulators said.

Nearly 1 million chickens on a Minnesota egg farm will be slaughtered to help limit the spread of the highly contagious bird flu after it was confirmed there, officials said. The virus was found at a farm in Wright County, Minnesota, as well as in three smaller flocks in South Dakota and Iowa.

Experts say a high-end sex ring busted by the Justice Department could now pose a threat to national security as buyers in their network included politicians, executives, military officers and government contractors with security clearances.

The Idaho National Laboratory suffered a widespread data breach on November 20. The attack affected servers that support the Human Resources department within the lab that use Oracle software. The impacted data included employee information. 

A cyberattack that diverted ambulances from hospitals in East Texas on Thanksgiving Day is more widespread than previously known and has also forced hospitals in New Jersey, New Mexico and Oklahoma to reroute ambulances, hospital representatives told CNN.

In a concerning development, Warren County, Ohio, is grappling with an unexpected and significant outbreak of pneumonia in children. The phenomenon raises important questions about public health preparedness and the potential vulnerability of children in the post-pandemic era.

The FBI revealed that it has dismantled the IPStorm botnet proxy network and arrested a Russian and Moldovan national accused of running the network. The IPStorm botnet first emerged in 2019 and initially targeted Windows systems, until expanding to target other operating systems, including Android, Linux and Mac, in 2020. The main purpose of the botnet was to turn infected devices into proxies as part of a for-profit scheme available through the websites proxx.io and proxx.net. 

Healthcare software-as-a-service company Welltok recently notified 8.5 million individuals of a data breach stemming from the May 2023 MOVEit hack. Threat actors took advantage of a vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer server, impacting MOVEit customers across the country.

A man accused of driving through a fence at Oconee Nuclear Station in South Carolina and trying to hit a security officer with his vehicle was arrested, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office said.

U.S. reliance on Russia’s nuclear fuel poses a critical threat to national security and climate goals, said a senior Biden administration official, who urged Congress to provide funds to rebuild its domestic supply chain and restrict imports from the country.

The California State Fire Marshal’s office released a photo and description of a “person of interest” in connection with the massive arson fire that burned beneath Interstate 10 south of downtown Los Angeles leading to the closure of the freeway.

It took a joint team of local, state and federal investigators less than 12 hours to determine that what had first been reported as a possible terrorist attack on the Rainbow Bridge border crossing was actually a horrific car crash. A 5-second clip of video, released by CBP and taken by a bridge security camera, shows the car speeding onto the entrance of the bridge, striking a concrete barrier and then going airborne.

The U.S. is investigating cyberattacks on American water facilities orchestrated by an Iranian-affiliated cyber group. One such breach gained attention as the Cyber Av3ngers group, linked to Tehran, claimed responsibility for targeting a water authority in Pennsylvania. Authorities are currently examining a “single digit” number of affected facilities nationwide. 

The Baltimore City Department of Public Works needs to inspect more than 275,000 public and private water pipes to see if they contain lead, according to a new map and data obtained by 11 News Investigates.