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...

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.

A lifeguard was killed while seven others were injured after lightning struck a beach in Ocean County, New Jersey. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

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 13-year-old boy dies after being struck by lighting on Thursday. Jessica Cunnington reports.

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...