Author: John Bacon, USA TODAY

What kind of mask do you need for wildfire smoke? As wildfires blaze around San Francisco and Los Angeles, here’s how to protect yourself from smoke

The raging Kincade Fire that has forced almost 200,000 people to flee a swath of Northern California has ravaged winery buildings dating to 1869.

A sheriff’s official says two people have been killed in a shooting at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party that left 12 others injured.

After a Bradley Fighting Vehicle crashed, three Fort Stewart soldiers were pronounced dead at the scene; three more were evacuated to a hospital.

An ‘explosive cyclogenesis’ or bomb cyclone hit the Northeast, causing widespread power outages in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire.

Atatiana Jefferson, who was fatally shot in her Texas home, was a college graduate, a pharmaceutical equipment sales rep and a loving daughter.

The lights were back on for more than 2 million Northern Californians after strong winds fueling wildfire concerns prompted a preemptive outage.

The family of a black woman fatally shot by police in her Fort Worth home after playing video games with her nephew is demanding justice.