A 15-year-old drowned on Sunday at a beach on Sandy Hook in New Jersey. The teen was among a group of six swimmers, five of whom survived after being rescued, who were swimming in an area without a lifeguard.
While Black Friday may no longer look like the crowd-filled, in-person mayhem that it was just decades ago, the holiday sales event is still slated to attract millions of consumers.
A vehicle exploded at a checkpoint on the American side of a U.S.-Canada bridge in Niagara Falls Wednesday, prompting the closing of four border crossings in the area, authorities said.