Ahmed Al-Hassan, an Iraqi Shia Muslim religious leader, became the most prominent of figures after he claimed to have been sent by the Imam Mahdi and that he is "the messianic al-Yamani".

If Mahdi is executed, he would be the fifth person killed by South Carolina since the state resumed execution in September 2024 following a 13 year pause. But experts and recent legal filings have ...

COLUMBIA — A man who shot an Orangeburg police captain nine times and burned his body as part of an East Coast crime spree will die by execution in four weeks, the S.C. Supreme Court ordered ...

The Southern California maps are the last to be published in a series of releases from CalFire looking at areas in the state that are the responsibility of local fire departments. Across Southern ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of Southern California on new state maps published Monday - the first release of its kind in 14 years - as fire officials rush to keep ...

WASHINGTON − Louisiana last year sent two Black representatives to Congress for the first time in almost three decades under a congressional map being challenged as unfair to the state’s non ...

Marin fire officials say the maps, while mostly showing what they already know about fire risks in the county, could have implications for enforcement of state laws on defensible space and real ...

For the first time in at least 14 years, state officials will release updated fire maps for Southern California on Monday, March 24, showing where wildfires are most likely to occur within the ...

(NEXSTAR) — Though some generations of Americans are drinking less than those before them, it is still estimated that one in six adults are binge drinkers, per a newly-released annual report.

The maps are part of a 40-year-old program in which the state Forestry and Fire Protection Department, or Cal Fire, periodically documents areas that are most prone to having a wildfire within the ...

Fire hazard has grown in Los Angeles County over the past decade, according to new state maps. What do the maps show? The Office of the State Fire Marshal found that the land area considered to ...