As Hurricane Florence threatens to wreak havoc on the East Coast, zoos across the region are taking extra precautions to protect some of their most endangered animals.

Former National Security Agency contractor Reality Winner on Thursday was sentenced to more than five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking a classified report with information on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.

Aviation pioneers are developing a new way to soar through skies using electric-powered planes as a way to battle rising jet fuel prices.

After a bloody Chicago weekend that left a dozen dead and another 62 wounded, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing a mounting political crisis -- with his rivals emboldened as they aim to unseat him in the looming mayoral election.

Broken brick, mangled wire and flooded shells of destroyed buildings are all that is left of the lumber mill built in the 1890s. Ferguson, S.C., is one of dozens of ghost towns across the state quickly fading away due to increasingly wet climates.

In 2016 more than 33,000 opioid related deaths occurred across the U.S., but the town of Cary, located on the outskirts of North Carolina’s capital, is the first to use a special device to test sewer water in an attempt to combat the opioid crisis.

Kayleigh “Buggy” Reinke was only 3 years old when her father Army SSG Gavin Reinke was tragically killed by an roadside bomb during his second deployment to Iraq in 2006.

Henry McMaster took a big leap when he endorsed Donald Trump for president in January 2016. Now, the South Carolina governor is hoping that early support pays dividends.

When he sees his cue, he runs out to the baseball field to deliver water to a sweaty umpire. But this is no ordinary water boy. Phisher is a 1-year-old Boykin Spaniel that is the newest member of the Lexington County Blowfish, a summer collegiate baseball team in South Carolina.

As the number of drone sightings around correctional facilities continues to rise across the U.S., South Carolina prison officials are implementing the first drone program in the country to patrol the perimeters of its high and medium security prisons.