In 1994, 11 members of the Branch Davidian religious cult were acquitted of murder and conspiracy charges stemming from a federal raid and siege at the compound near Waco, Texas, the year before.

On April 19, 1995, 168 people were killed when a 4,800-pound bomb detonated at the north entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

1687 – French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the ...

A​ three-day siege of severe thunderstorms and high winds downed trees, knocked out power and spawned tornadoes from the Plains to the Southeast and mid-Atlantic states in early March 2025. T​he ...

At a news conference this afternoon, police confirmed the dead numbered two girls, five boys and the school's headmistress at Jokela High in Tuusula, a quiet town around 50 kilometers (30 miles) north ...

Flags in Finland were flying at half-staff Thursday and government workers observed three minutes of silence a day after a teenager opened fire at his high school, killing eight people before fatally ...

The carnage and the deadly fires that resulted still wound Waco, Texas, over 30 years later ... affair with Lois and drew George’s ire with a an administration building fire that cost the group ...

Waco introduced its new Fire Station No. 15, dubbed The Outpost, on Thursday to serve the rapidly growing Ritchie Road ...

The City of Waco and the Waco Fire Department invited thecommunity to the grand opening of Fire Station #15! The event took ...

Bergerson has been serving as acting Interim Fire Chief since previous Fire Chief Scott Walker stepped down in February to ...