Exposure to anhydrous ammonia apparently caused the deaths of five people when a tanker truck loaded with the hazardous material overturned September 29 on a highway east of Teutopolis, Illinois.

An explosion inside a container at a Union Pacific railyard prompted evacuations September 14 in western Nebraska due to toxic smoke being generated when one of the chemicals caught fire. One of the containers involved was carrying perchloric acid, which is used in explosives as well as a variety of food and drug products.

Thousands of people were stranded in the Nevada desert after heavy rains swamped the annual Burning Man festival, leaving thick, ankle-deep mud. Burning Man organizers worked to provide cell service and medical resources as attendees sheltered in place.

Retailers say they're seeing theft and rampant crime soar in their stores, prompting them to rethink how they operate, according to a new survey.

Cybersecurity agencies from Japan and the U.S. have warned of attacks mounted by a state-backed hacking group from China to stealthily tamper with branch routers and use them as jumping-off points to access the networks of various companies in the two countries. Targeted sectors encompass government, industrial, technology, media, electronics, and telecommunication sectors.

The Metro Nashville Police Department is investigating two telephone threats made downtown, one a bomb threat and another for an active shooter. A section of Broadway and the area around the AT&T building were blocked off as police investigated the two threats.

Johnson Controls International has suffered what is described as a massive ransomware attack that encrypted many of the company devices, including VMware ESXi servers, impacting the company's and its subsidiaries' operations.

Nine new vulnerabilities have been exposed in Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories' power management products. "The most severe of those nine vulnerabilities would allow a threat actor to facilitate remote code execution (RCE) on an engineering workstation," Nozomi Networks said in a report.

The state is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for help improving the flood-control dams, after historic flooding showed they were “susceptible to a back-to-back storm event.”

Officials say that a new early warning system will be in place by October 18.

For more than 24 hours after its pilot ejected safely, the Marine Corps lost track of an F-35B Lightning II that took off from South Carolina before a wreckage site was found.

The discovery of 7nm, 5G-enabled chips in Huawei’s latest phone has sparked an investigation by the US Commerce Department into how the country was able to acquire the technology.

A suspect in the ambush murder of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer was arrested a day and a half after the deputy was shot in his patrol vehicle, waiting for a red light. The suspect’s mother and sister maintain that the suspect has mental health issues. They say that he's been placed on 72-hour psychiatric holds twice in the past, and they've even called the sheriff's department on him themselves.

A convicted killer was able to escape an exercise yard at Chester County Prison by climbing up a wall and over razor wire, authorities said. The tower officer “did not observe nor report the escape. The escape was discovered as part of the inmate counts that occur when inmates come in from the exercise yard," said the acting warden of the prison. That guard has since been put on administrative leave.

The Texas power grid operator reduced energy flowing along a key transmission line on September 6, exacerbating a power grid emergency. In an email to KUT, ERCOT confirmed that “a transmission limitation in the south Texas region that restricted the flow of generation out of South Texas to the rest of the grid” factored into the emergency.

A man wanted since July after copper wiring was stolen from electric substations in Morganton, North Carolina, was taken into custody on September 27. He was wanted on two counts 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.

Authorities have arrested a man who they say was minutes away from carrying out a mass shooting at a church in Northern Virginia on September 24. The man was taken into custody with a loaded gun and extra ammunition at Park Valley Church in Haymarket.

Congregations in Florida and California joined dozens more that have experienced such threats during services in recent months.

The cybercriminals behind a sophisticated Android banking Trojan called Xenomorph, who have been actively targeting users in Europe for more than a year, recently set their sights on customers of more than two dozen US banks. Among those in the threat actor's crosshairs are customers of major financial institutions such as Chase, Amex, Ally, Citi Mobile, Citizens Bank, Bank of America, and Discover Mobile.

The megabank's global headquarters were briefly shut down as activists blocked employees from getting into work.

An explosion and fire at a soybean processing facility in Decatur, Illinois, has injured eight employees and sent a tower of smoke into the air.

A man was recently charged with felony aggravated cruelty to animals and cruelty to animals after allegedly turning off the water supply to barns housing more than 200,000 chickens at a farm located in Comer, Georgia. The suspect was employed to tend to the chickens but after problems with Pilgrim’s Pride and farm owners — which included drug concerns and threatening messages — he was let go on August 21.

The school day was disrupted for hundreds of thousands of students, and some families wondered whether classes should have been canceled.

A former contractor is accused of leaking tax information to news outlets about a government official and thousands of the country's wealthiest people.

Coastal hospitals in West Tampa, South Pasadena, Tarpon Springs and Trinity closed as area hospitals brace for storm, influx of patients.

HSHS and Prevea hospitals and clinics have access to patients’ records, and their patient-facing portals, including MyChart and MyPrevea, are working again. The hospitals and clinics have been working through a technology outage since late August. They eventually acknowledged it was the result of a cyber attack, which affected phones, internet and communications systems, and clinical and administrative applications at all 15 HSHS hospitals in Wisconsin and Illinois and Prevea Health facilities.

State-backed hacking groups have breached a U.S. aeronautical organization using exploits targeting critical Zoho ManageEngine and Fortinet vulnerabilities, a joint advisory published by CISA, the FBI, and the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) revealed.

Okta’s chief information security officer has confirmed that two cyber attacks targeting Las Vegas casino operators MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment appeared to exploit the company’s technology as an access vector, providing a clue as to how the concurrent cyber attacks began.

The production of high-assay, low-enriched uranium (HALEU), which is used for small next-generation nuclear reactors, will begin in the United States in October, according to U.S. nuclear energy company Centrus Energy Corp. With Russia being the dominant producer of HALEU, the U.S. has been delayed in developing advanced reactors due to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

The Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, located on the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan, could become the country’s first utility-scale nuclear plant recommissioned to help meet demand for zero-emission electricity.

BNSF Railway Co. has informed customers it's not accepting new rail shipments through Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, due to the Department of Homeland Security's decision to close part of the U.S.-Mexico border to rail traffic as a result of a congestion of migrants wishing to enter the United States.

Record-setting rain overwhelmed New York City’s sewer system, sending a surge of floodwater coursing through streets and into basements, schools, subways and vehicles throughout the nation’s most populous city.

The intrusion of saltwater upriver from the Gulf of Mexico is expected to reach New Orleans by October 22 and has already impacted communities below the city. The influx of saltwater has the potential to affect the drinking water of nearly 900,000 Louisiana residents.

Video released to the FOX 8 I-Team shows a driver barreling through a security gate at a Cleveland water plant. Records show no one noticed for about two and a half hours. The incident happened in July at the Fairmount Pumping Station for Cleveland Water.