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(HOUSTON) -- Over two million Houston residents are under a water boil notice after a power outage Sunday affected a water treatment plant, officials said. The water pressure dropped below the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's required minimum of 20 PSI during a power outage at the East Water Purification…

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- Payton Gendron pleaded guilty Monday to state charges stemming from the May shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Gendron pleaded guilty to 15 charges in all, including domestic terrorism motivated by hate, murder and attempted murder. He still faces more than two dozen federal…

(NEW YORK) -- Ash and lava have begun spewing out of the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island -- the largest active volcano in the world. The activity, which began Sunday and continued into Monday morning, is the first eruption from Mauna Loa in nearly 40 years. The lava…

(LOS ANGELES) -- A Virginia man allegedly "catfished" a teenage girl online before traveling to Riverside, California, and killing her family, according to police. The murders were discovered on Friday after authorities received a report of a girl "who appeared distressed" while getting into a car with a man, Riverside…

(MOSCOW, Idaho) -- Authorities are receiving an influx of 911 calls from the fearful University of Idaho community weeks after four students were stabbed to death in an off-campus house. The students -- Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Kaylee Goncalves, 21 -- were killed in…

(MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md.) -- Two people have been rescued from a small private plane after it struck and got lodged in a high-tension power line tower in Montgomery County, Maryland. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service Chief Scott Goldstein confirmed both the pilot and passenger were transported to local area…

(NEW YORK) -- Merriam-Webster defines gaslighting as "the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage." Now, the term has been dubbed the 2022 Word of the Year, the oldest U.S. dictionary publisher announced Monday. "The increase in dictionary lookups for gaslighting is striking," Peter Sokolowski,…

(BENSALEM, Penn.) -- A Pennsylvania teen has been charged with murder after he allegedly confessed over Instagram to fatally shooting another child, according to police. The Bensalem Police Department received a 911 call Friday afternoon about a possible homicide, with the caller detailing an Instagram video chat she received from a…

(COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) -- One of the two men credited as heroes for stopping the Colorado Springs gunman as he searched for more victims, has spoken from his hospital bed. U.S. Navy Petty Officer, Second Class, Thomas James helped U.S. Army veteran Richard Fierro subdue the alleged gunman, 22-year-old Anderson…

(ATLANTA) -- One person is dead and five others are injured after a shooting that took place near Atlantic Station on Saturday evening in Atlanta, the Atlanta Police Department said. One male was pronounced deceased on the scene and five other victims were shot and later transported to nearby hospitals,…