The death toll in a nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic rose to 226 on Saturday (April 12, 2025), as authorities said they had returned all victims' bodies to their loved ones.

The roof collapse's toll surpasses that of the 136 inmates who died in a 2005 prison fire in the eastern city of Higuey. The president's office had earlier said 189 people were pulled alive from ...

A lightning strike set ablaze the steeple of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. Paul on Thursday evening, but the congregation wasn’t scrambling Friday to figure out where to hold Holy Week ...

Emily Pike was a smiling, cheerful child. Then she was sexually assaulted. And all the tribal agencies involved were unable to protect her.

A JustGiving appeal has been launched to raise money for families left homeless by a devastating fire which destroyed or damaged as many as 30 homes.

The Hartford Fire Department used a crane to retrieve the small dog from the house's roof Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024 ...

A road was closed as fire crews worked to extinguish a blaze at a house with a thatched roof. Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to Hackthorne Road, Durrington, Salisbury ...

Supreme Court rejects appeal from Dylann Roof, who killed 9 people in a Black church The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in ...

SB 468 has passed both the House and Senate but still needs a procedural vote before going to Gov. Bill Lee. The bill requires restrooms and shower facilities in public colleges and universities ...

Tours leave Cape Town four times a day, and the trip includes a bus tour of the island and a visit to the prison. The island was first used as a political prison in the mid-1600s; Dutch settlers ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return to the U.S. from a notorious Salvadoran prison, rejecting the White House's claim that it couldn't retrieve ...

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams arrived in the Dominican Republic on Monday to pay his respects to the 231 people who died last week when the roof of a ...