A man accused of stealing a boat for a naked sail on the Hudson River has escaped from a New York City hospital while in custody.

A summer storm was swift but strong in Massachusetts Friday afternoon, leaving damage from Belmont to Fall River.

Visibility was near zero as smoke rapidly filled Gabriel House, an assisted living facility with 69 residents. People were screaming for help; some stayed in their rooms and called loved ones, some invoked the Almighty.

Authorities say three men who were reported missing while fishing and swimming on a sandbar in the Mississippi River have been found dead near Memphis, Tennessee.

The owner of the Gabriel House in Fall River said in a statement Friday that his focus remains on the families who lost loved ones in a fire at the assisted living facility.

So far, Washington's fire season is shaping up exactly as expected. The entire state and Oregon has above-normal fire risk.

The three men had been fishing and swimming south of the boat ramp in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park before being reported missing, officials said.

The United States and Mexico have signed an agreement outlining specific steps, funds and a timetable to clean up the longstanding problem of the Tijuana River pouring sewage across the border and polluting California beaches.

Santa Ana Watershed officials said the four-year program, which began in late 2023, would not be continued due, in part, to wildfires in target regions, including Orange County's Airport fire.

A house in Toms River that sold for $15.4 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Toms River area in the past week.