Although Texas counties are not required to provide ambulance services, many are digging deep to pay for their own fleet or to contract out services.

Abbott confirmed three deaths from the storms, none were recorded from flooded areas.

Forecasters expect storms to begin tapering off but some roads remain closed due to flooding.

Officials say cybercriminals hacked into the Kansas court system, stole sensitive data and threatened to post it on the dark web in a ransomware attack that has hobbled access to records for more than five weeks.

Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline for two weeks a “security incident.”.

Twenty years after a spate of deaths at a rural Missouri hospital, a former worker has been charged with murder.

Authorities say they've arrested a former respiratory therapist who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a patient 20 years ago.

A few weeks into the new school year, growing numbers of U.S. districts have halted in-person learning or switched to hybrid models because of rapidly mounting coronavirus infections.

An avowed antisemite who testified that he wanted to kill Jews and was sentenced to death after he fatally shot three people at Jewish sites in Kansas has died in prison.