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As an extreme weather event stampeded across South Dakota Thursday evening, images that emerged on social media called to mind the 1930s Dust Bowl era. A destructive line of storms rips across Nebraska and South Dakota on May 12, leaving damage scattered all over the region.(Please go to the site to view the video)The multi-day severe weather threat across the Plains escalated on Thursday, with thunderstorms delivering powerful winds and massive hailstones across the region a day after a meteorologist was killed in a crash during a preceding storm. The extreme weather event has been declared a Derecho, a long-lived...

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James this week released police body-worn camera footage from the New York State Police (NYSP) that her office obtained as part of its ongoing investigation into the death of James Huber. Huber died on February 12, 2022, following an encounter with a member of NYSP in Buffalo. Huber was being chased by the Trooper for ‘driving erratically.’

A man who rammed his truck into a woman's vehicle on a highway early Friday told authorities he crashed into her while going more than 100 mph because God told him "she needed to be taken off the road."

Gore: Son's arrest is 'a private family matter' Updated: July 5, 2007 08:08 AM EDT NEW YORK (AP) -- Al Gore says he's dealing with his son's arrest in California "as a private family matter." Al Gore the Third, who is 24, was arrested early yesterday. Sheriff's deputies say he was driving about 100 miles per hour on the San Diego Freeway. They arrested him on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs. The former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee appeared on the "Today" show on NBC this morning. He says he's glad his son is safe and is...

Police Clock Teacher at Over 100 Mph Thu Apr 13, 5:49 PM ET FARGO, N.D. - A teacher on her way to school in South Dakota was caught speeding at more than 100 mph, thanks to a tip from a driver who said the woman had been routinely passing him at triple-digit speeds, authorities say. Heather Jo Smith, 25, of Fargo, was clocked at 102 mph on Wednesday near the Horace exit on Interstate 29, Cass County Sheriff's Capt. Mike Argall said. Smith was driving a car that is owned by the Northeast Educational Co-op in Hayti, S.D., Argall said....