The justices will consider whether states and localities can try to hold oil companies responsible for damages from climate change. If Boulder, Colo., wins, the companies could owe enormous sums.

The US ⁠Supreme ⁠Court begins its new nine-month term ⁠on Monday with arguments in a major case involving a bid by oil companies ​ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy to scuttle a lawsuit by officials in Boulder,

The Supreme Court is deciding if people in Boulder, Colorado, can sue fossil fuel companies for climate change damages.

The Supreme Court began its new term by hearing arguments in a case skeeing to hold energy companies liable for damages caused by climate change. NBC News' Gary Grumbach has details on the cases presented and potential implications.

Three students were airlifted from the bus to the hospital.

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A high school student was among two people killed Oct. 5 when a school bus was involved in a "horrific" crash, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. The bus, which had 39 people on board, was headed to Winter Haven High School when the crash happened about 6:15 a.

HEARTBREAKING  Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd shared what led to a school bus crash that left a 10th-grade student and another driver dead.

The alleged rape of a young woman at Cornell has spurred an online campaign to shield the identity of "Jane Doe."

Cornell's main administration building has been splashed with graffiti and a glass door was broken

The ⁠woman ⁠who has alleged that she was ⁠drugged and raped by Cornell University students has been the ​target of threats, her lawyer said on Sunday. Thomas Giuffra, who represents the woman identified as "Jane ‌Doe,

The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by multiple Cornell students is being targeted with threats, her lawyer told CNN Oct. 4.

The two people aboard an air ambulance that crashed in the waters off Massachusetts over the weekend while flying from Bermuda to Boston were identified Monday as a mother from Bermuda and her son.Bermuda police said Marilyn Lavonne Bean,

A search has been suspended off the Massachusetts coast for six people on an air ambulance that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston.

A search remains ongoing off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston

Debris from a missing medical transport jet has been found off the coast of Nantucket as the US Coast Guard continues searching for the aircraft and the six people on board after it disappeared early Saturday while en route from Bermuda to Boston, the agency said.

Gunfire erupted early Sunday morning at a neighborhood block party in Vienna, Georgia.

Georgia politicians are speaking out after a deadly mass shooting at a Dooly County homecoming block party left two people dead and hurt 35 people over the weekend. The shooting, which took place on Pine Street in Vienna,

A mass shooting in the small South Georgia town of Vienna left two people dead and injured 35 early Sunday morning, according to the GBI.

A shooting at a homecoming party in Vienna, Georgia, left two people dead and as many as 35 injured, according to local officials.

A tropical depression or storm has a high chance to form in the Gulf this week and breathe life into the tail end of an Atlantic hurricane season squashed by El Niño. The Gulf is often a hot bed for late-season storms.

A trough of low pressure in the southwestern Gulf is likely to become a tropical depression this week, according to the National Hurricane Center on Monday morning. According to forecasters at the National Weather Service in New Orleans,

There’s upped chances for possible tropical formation in the Gulf of America by the later portion of this week. The National Hurricane Center is flagging an area

System in Gulf could develop into tropical depression this week, NHC says