Firefighters from North Texas are joining the fight against wildfires in the Texas Panhandle that have killed four people and threatened hundreds of homes.

Four people were killed when a bus carrying senior citizens on a casino outing collided with a freight train Tuesday in Biloxi, Mississippi, officials said.

Wildfires burning in Colorado, Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma have forced evacuations and destroyed several buildings. A pair of fires in the Texas Panhandle burned more than 100 square miles. One of the blazes near Amarillo threatened about 150 homes.

Tornadoes touched down in the upper Midwest and northern Arkansas on Tuesday, killing at least two people, as a spring-like storm system posed a risk to 45 million people.

People sparked most US wildfires in recent decades, causing longer fire seasons and increasing the amount of scorched earth, according to a new study published Monday. Researchers found that humans caused 84 percent -- or four out of five -- of the total 1.5 million wildfires studied between 1992 and 2012.



In addition, human actions tripled the length of the fire season during those two decades and were responsible for 44 percent of the total acreage burned, researchers reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A car plunged from the rooftop of a parking garage and landed onto a shopping center in west Houston Sunday afternoon. The vehicle flipped and landed upside down, causing the roof of the restaurant to cave in.

To be or not to be remains the question with workers’ compensation and gross negligence. Currently, Florida law bars contractors and subcontractors from being sued for gross negligence when another subcontractor employs and insures its own crew.

A strong line of storms ripped through the Austin-area Monday morning, leaving behind damage in its path. At the peak of the storm just after midnight, the Austin Fire Department was called to a single-family home in the 4401 block of Creede Drive after a report of heavy flames.

A massive line of severe thunderstorms blasted San Antonio and most of south Texas on Sunday night into Monday morning, at one point prompting tornado warnings for some counties.

Storm victims anxious to repair and clean-up damage quickly found more help than they imagined with many offers coming uninvited.

A line of severe storms spawned at least six tornados, injured at least seven and caused damage in southeastern Texas Tuesday morning, including near the Houston metro area. In Van Vleck, Texas, recreational vehicles were flipped and structural damage was reported along a path approximately a mile long.

A Texas insurance agent is suing Yahoo over the fallout from two breaches of user data, alleging that his credit card data was stolen in the hacks. Last year, Yahoo announced that it had been the victim of two data breaches — one in 2014 that obtained details of at least 500 million accounts, and one the year before of more than a billion accounts.

The northbound lanes of Interstate 37 were shut down on the Southeast Side Wednesday after a major accident involving two 18 wheelers and up to 20 vehicles, according to authorities.

On February 5, Lady Gaga will headline the Super Bowl halftime show and will require a substantial event insurance policy for the performance. She intends to perform on top of the NRG Stadium cover dome in Houston.

Flames engulfed the Victoria Islamic Center, destroying the building in the predawn hours Saturday as congregation members watched from the curb, overcome with emotion.