Jason Hanna

A treacherous wintry mix including freezing rain and snow is set to hit parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina from Friday into Saturday, moving the governors of those states declare emergencies as forecasters anticipate poor travel conditions and power outages.

A 22-year-old man was arrested and charged after authorities say he fired a stray bullet that killed a 6-month-old in west Atlanta on Monday -- the third time a child has been shot in the city this year.

Much of the East Coast was covered with a thick blanket of snow Saturday night, with several areas reporting record snowfall totals, and officials across the region urged residents to stay put as the fierce nor’easter made its way through the country’s northeastern tip.

The mayor of Oregon’s most populous city on Friday banned encampments near highways and high-traffic intersections, saying homeless people comprised the majority of pedestrians who were killed in Portland traffic incidents last year.

A jury began deliberations in the federal hate crimes trial of three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery. A prosecutor had said in closing arguments the men pursued Arbery because they saw “a Black man in their neighborhood and assumed the worst.”

It was only a matter time before the water system in Jackson, Mississippi, failed like it did this week, authorities said, leaving residents with no reliable running water to shower or brush their teeth and forcing schools and businesses to close.

A man suspected of abducting and killing a Memphis teacher who was out jogging was temporarily ordered held without bond Wednesday on a murder charge that was added after her body was identified.

LeBron James became the association’s all-time leading scorer in the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday, surpassing the record that six-time NBA MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had held for 39 years.

Investigators have found the remains of a North Carolina woman reported missing last month, and a man who’d been found unresponsive in her vehicle has been arrested on a preliminary charge of murder, authorities said Thursday. The remains of Allisha Dene Watts, 39, have been found, and Charlotte-area police on Thursday arrested James Dunmore on suspicion of killing her, Montgomery County Sheriff Pete Herron told reporters on the grounds of a cemetery near the towns of Candor and Norman. Watts’ r…

Hurricane Norma brought ashore the threat of destructive winds, flash flooding and dangerous storm surge from the Pacific Ocean to a popular Mexico resort area on Saturday as a different hurricane swipes island nations in the Atlantic. Norma made landfall as a Category 1 with winds of 80 mph over the far southern portion of Mexico’s Baja California Sur – which includes Cabo San Lucas – Saturday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said. Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters observed Norma’s ce…