The swollen Mississippi River was pushing downstream at 10 times the speed of the Niagara Falls Saturday.

Put down that drawn butter. A spike in toxins on the California coast has prompted officials to delay the start of crab season.

The mother of the gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon college wrote online years ago that she was a gun enthusiast and her son had a form of autism.

Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez had downloaded audio recordings of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-Yemeni cleric who was a recruiter for al-Qaeda.

District Attorney Andrew Wylie told NBC News Monday afternoon that he has “no comment” on a plot to kill Lyle Mitchell.

The two escaped killers on the run are not equipped to deal with life in the wilderness and are probably “terrifically” stressed, according to an expert.

Escaped murderer Richard Matt is “psychotic,” a former accomplice told NBC News, expressing fears the fugitive could seek revenge while on the lam.

There has been no sign of Richard Matt and David Sweat since they were reported missing on Saturday.

Crowds erupted in cheers Thursday as a teen boy was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building five days after Nepal’s catastrophic earthquake.