A vast area of the central U.S. was warned to prepare for storms on Monday, after tornadoes killed one and injured 21 in Oklahoma and also hit Iowa and Kansas. “After over 300 reports of severe weather on Sunday, another round of dangerous severe weather is expected Monday with the greatest threat once again in the southern Plains targeting Oklahoma and parts of Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas,” the National Weather Service said. “However, severe weather is possible much further north towards Chicago and Madison as well." Read the rest of this entry »

An Amtrak train traveling from New Orleans to Chicago derailed Sunday with at least 197 passengers on board, according to officials. The City of New Orleans train No. 58 was scheduled to arrive in Chicago, but derailed at 9:30 a.m. just outside Chicago’s Union Station on 16th Street, officials said. Read the rest of this entry »

A US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said. Read the rest of this entry »

The cause of the deadly explosions at a Texas fertilizer plant last month remains undetermined, state and federal officials said Thursday. Robert Champion, the agent in charge of the Dallas office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said at a briefing that investigators hadn't been able to rule out the possibility that the two blasts at West Fertilizer Co. were caused by an intentionally set fire. Read the rest of this entry »

North Texas residents began to take in the devastation on Thursday wreaked by a series of tornadoes that killed six and injured dozens more in what Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds described as a “nightmare” scenario. Read the rest of this entry »

Two adults are dead and a young child hospitalized. The Navarro County Sheriff told NBC DFW that two adults died and a young child is hospitalized after being pulled from a pond in Corsicana Saturday night after their boat capsized. Read the rest of this entry »

A man a woman and four children died after flames tore through a home overnight. Schuylkill County dispatcher Bill Lindenmuph told NBC10 that the fire broke out just before midnight at a home on the 200 block of Pierce Street in Pottsville, Pa. Read the rest of this entry »

A pit bull saved a woman from a fire in her Long Island, New York home on Friday, barking to alert her as the flames began to spread from the front to the back of the house. Read the rest of this entry »

Record-setting temperatures, erratic winds, and a parched landscape spell a dangerous fire season for California, experts said on Friday as firefighters fought to control several large-scale blazes of a kind that usually would not raise thick plumes of smoke over the horizon until late fall. Read the rest of this entry »

A brush-fueled wildfire in California that sparked to life early Thursday grew to more than 8,000 acres -- 12 square miles -- in Ventura County by late afternoon, prompting hundreds evacuation and deep concern among homeowners, NBC Los Angeles reported. Read the rest of this entry »