Authorities have identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant last week.

The Chicago area is facing the prospect of bleak service cuts to public transit if Illinois legislators adjourn this weekend without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget.

The viral video of a 73-year-old man who says he got boarded up inside his low-income apartment is sparking an investigation.

SAN ANTONIO – Update:The Bexar County Medical Examiner has identified a man that was hit and killed by a vehicle while crossing a far West Side street earlier this week. The incident happened around 8 p.m., Wednesday, in the 2400 block of Hunt Lane, just west of Loop 410. Original:A man was hit and killed by a vehicle while crossing a far West Side street, San Antonio police said on Wednesday. Police said the victim, a man in his 30s, was crossing the street, stopped, looked down and kept walking across the street before he was hit by the car. The driver of the car that hit that man stopped to help him and is not expected to face charges.

The unusually high-pitched songs may help the birds woo above background noises in their windy, mountain environment. (Paolo David Escobar/Neoselva Photography via AP)WASHINGTON Perched on a flowering shrub on a windy Andean mountainside, the tiny Ecuadorian Hillstar hummingbird chirps songs of seduction that only another bird of its kind can hear. For the new study, scientists climbed into the Ecuadorian Andes to reach high grasslands called paramos and locate the Hillstars breeding grounds. Humans can hear pitches up to about 20 kilohertz, but lose sensitivity to high-pitch sounds with age. During fieldwork, the younger scientists could usually hear the Hillstar hummingbird songs, but the older participants couldnt, Duque said.