A Texas mother is behind bars nearly a year after she gave birth to a baby boy in a shower and dumped him in the trash, according to authorities. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez announced the arrest ...

A waste management worker saved five newborn kittens after he heard them meowing softly under a pile of cardboard in Canada.

A kitten from New Jersey may be short one or two of her nine lives after she was rescued from a waste compactor just in the nick of time. Burlington County Regional Recycling Program employee Mark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michelle Montgomery was found dismembered in a plastic bag in a trash compactor in Brooklyn, New York, on Feb. 1 NYPD Chief of ...

A dog was found abandoned in a trash compactor in Daytona Beach on July 6. The Halifax Humane Society is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person(s) responsible ...

Police were investigating over the weekend after a female dog was found in a trash compactor at a NYCHA development in Lower Manhattan on Friday, according to the NYPD and the American Society for the ...

Firefighters responded to a garbage truck fire in a Target parking lot on the city’s west side Friday morning.

KULPMONT, Pa. — In the lot of the former Kulpmont High School on Spruce Street is a new structure. It houses a new cardboard compactor that the borough is getting ready to put to use in a couple of ...