Alicia Victoria Lozano

The victim, whose identity has not been released, was shot during a fight Friday night, the Bloomington, Minn., police chief said. No other injuries were reported.

Bruce’s Beach was a thriving resort for Black families before a wealthy coastal city seized the land under the guise of eminent domain in 1924.

Another round of heavy rain and snow fueled by atmospheric rivers will pound the drought-stricken state for the next several days.

LAHAINA, Hawaii — A group of farmers, activists and lawyers is rallying behind a top water official who was reassigned after the catastrophic wildfires, saying he has become a scapegoat in the ongoing finger-pointing about how the fires grew out of control so quickly. Kaleo Manuel, who was a member of the state Commission on Water Resource Management when three wildfires erupted on Maui on Aug. 8, has come under intense scrutiny after a land developer wrote a letter to him accusing the water com…

The family of a woman who died trying to flee a wildfire on Maui is suing the county, the state and one of Hawaii’s largest landowners, alleging they neglected to maintain their fire-prone property. The wrongful death complaint, filed Monday in state Second Circuit Court, is the first against the state and the landholder, Bishop Estate, related to the Aug. 8 inferno, which killed 115 people, left more than 300 missing and destroyed the historic town of Lahaina. Hawaiian Electric Co. is also name…

The number of people who remain unaccounted for following a catastrophic wildfire that destroyed the historic Maui town of Lahaina last month has dropped to 66, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said. The announcement comes on the one-month commemoration of the wildfire, which killed at least 115 people and displaced thousands more. Green said additional deaths could be announced in the coming months as Maui police continue to investigate dozens of fatalities. “Some people will hold out hope that their…

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Lahaina resident Erwin Miyamoto squinted as he pointed to a clay-colored speck far in the distance, its light blue roof barely visible against the deep cerulean of the sky. “See that building?” he said, standing on a hill above a Hawaii National Guard blockade near the burn zone. “That was my property.” Its colorful wall and roof are all that remain of the apartment complex Miyamoto managed before an Aug. 8 wildfire tore through Lahaina, killing 97 people and displacing thousa…

Amid the devastating war in Israel, relatives of hostages have had to learn of their kidnappings through frantic, whispered phone calls and videos posted to social media. The stakes rose Monday as Hamas threatened to start executing hostages if Israel bombs civilian targets in Gaza. The exact number of people abducted remains unclear. Militants have claimed more than 100, but the Israeli Defense Forces estimated late Monday that more than 30 people were held by Hamas in Gaza. These accounts of…

Judith Raanan and her daughter, Natalie, had been living a typical American life in the Chicago suburb of Evanston for many years before the unthinkable happened. Judith, a 59-year-old artist, never missed a Sabbath service at her synagogue. Natalie, 17, had just graduated from Deerfield High School and hoped to work in fashion, interior design or tattooing following her summer and fall travel plans, which included visiting Italy before heading to Israel for the Jewish holidays and her grandmo…

LAHAINA, Hawaii — Kekoa Lansford can’t shake the images of glowing skeletons in burning homes and charred bodies in cars. More than two months after a ferocious wildfire burned his West Maui community to the ground, killing at least 97 people, Lansford and other survivors say the trauma is as real now as the day it sent hundreds of people fleeing for their lives as flames chewed through their neighborhoods and thick, black smoke filled the skies. “You just keep moving until you have time to proc…