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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.

A manhunt was underway for several hours on Wednesday night after a man with multiple outstanding warrants fled from police in Sharon, Massachusetts.

Rescue crews pulled a car out of a creek in Sharon, Massachusetts, Tuesday morning after it crashed.

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,...