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Prosecutor Joel Seidemann strode briskly up the length of the courtroom’s center aisle with an accordion file under one arm and a line of eight younger colleagues rushing to keep up.

Tropical Storm Fausto formed Sunday well off Mexico’s southwest Pacific coast, while a tropical depression meandering in warm Gulf of Mexico waters south of the Florida Panhandle was threatening to strengthen into a named storm.

The Texas Hill Country has been lashed with another round of catastrophic flash flooding, eerily reminiscent of last year’s devastating inundation over the July Fourth holiday that killed more than 100 people.

When locals think of Horn Island, they think of pristine beaches, summer boating trips and peaceful fishing.

Two U.S. Forest Service employees were rescued with the help of negotiators after being zip-tied and held hostage for nearly 15 hours in Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California, officials said Friday.

Donike “”Donna” Gocaj, who fell into the 10-foot manhole full of scalding steam, suffered “unfathomable” pain, her family said in the suit.

The remains of several geese were found on a New York City sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River last year and killed 6 people, investigators said.

Weeks after a 76-year-old woman was killed when a Tesla, operating on Full Self-Driving, crashed into her Texas home, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the car’s driver overrode the driver assistance mode and accelerated into the building.

The Blue Angels flew a “scary” low pattern over the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday, sending chairs and umbrellas flying as beachgoers got an unexpectedly close look at the elite Navy aviators.

New York City police have taken a man into custody after he shouted a racial slur at “TODAY” co-anchor Craig Melvin near Studio 1A, the morning show’s broadcast headquarters at Rockefeller Plaza, multiple people familiar with the matter said.