lightning strike

Two of the four people who were apparently struck by lightning Thursday near the White House have died, Washington D.C. police said.

Two of the victims have died, police said in an update Friday morning. Go here for updates. Four people have life-threatening injuries after they were apparently struck by lightning near the White House in Washington, D.C., Thursday evening, fire officials said. U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Park Police officers rushed to help the two women and two men when...

Rain and storms brought some relief to drought conditions in North Texas on Thursday, but that relief turned into worry in DeSoto after a homeowner tells NBC 5 lightning struck her home on Beverly Drive.

Firefighters are working to quash new fires ignited by lightning after thunderstorms with mostly small but welcome amounts of rain rumbled across drought-stricken Northern California, where forests have been burning for weeks.

Repairs to the monument’s electronic access system were ongoing on Tuesday after the obelisk was hit by lightning Sunday, the National Park Service said.

A North Texas family is picking up the pieces after their home was damaged in a fire caused by a possible lightning strike, according to fire officials.

A camera inside a Florida man’s truck captured a bolt of lightning striking a nearby palm tree – and it wasn’t even raining. Jonathan Moore was working Monday afternoon in Lutz, a suburb of Tampa, when the lightning bolt struck a tree about 75-feet away. A loud boom can be heard in the video moments before the strike, which...