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Two people are dead after a house fire in Winterport, Maine early Thursday morning, officials say.  The Winterport, Monroe and West Frankfort fire departments responded to the fire on Stream Road around 4:25 a.m. according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. First responders found two adults dead inside the home upon their arrival.  Officials identified the victims as...

The Senate voted Tuesday to extend funding for first responders suffering health problems as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake overnight has rattled the Three Lakes area of Washington state, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The initial temblor, recorded at 2:51 a.m. Friday, was followed minutes later by a 3.5 magnitude aftershock near the city of Monroe, some 30 miles northeast of Seattle.

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake overnight has rattled the Three Lakes area of Washington state, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The initial temblor, recorded at 2:51 a.m. Friday, was followed minutes later by a 3.5 magnitude aftershock near the city of Monroe, some 30 miles northeast of Seattle.

A 6-year-old boy pulled his drowning toddler twin cousins from a backyard pool in Louisiana. Branson Lee pulled his own little brother from the pool’s top step, then saw his 21-month-old cousins floating face-down. He hauled them out and yelled for help, Steven Kelley, the twins’ father, said Wednesday. Kelley says the twins were limp and “blue as a pair...

A Magnitude 2.1 tremor has shaken things up near Bucksport, Maine.

Boats are killing manatees in Florida at a record-setting pace so far this year.

A man jailed in Louisiana on a theft-related charge involving a debit card now faces a capital murder charge in the burning death of a 19-year-old Mississippi woman, authorities said Wednesday. District Attorney John Champion said Quentin Verdell Tellis, 27, was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in the death of Jessica Chambers on Dec. 6, 2014. On that night,...