Police: 2 dead, 6 injured in stabbings along Las Vegas Strip

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:36:53 -0400

Police say an attacker has killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip

Hurricane Ian floods leave mess, insurance questions behind

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:17:13 -0400

Christine Barrett and her family had to climb on top of their kitchen cabinets because of flooding that surged into their house during Hurricane Ian

EXPLAINER: Jurors weigh cost of Alex Jones' Sandy Hook lies

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:08:42 -0400

A Connecticut jury is set to resume deliberations on how much conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his company must pay victims’ families for calling the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School a hoax

Sheriff: Killing of kidnapped California family 'pure evil'

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:00:13 -0400

Authorities say the suspect in the kidnapping and killing of a central California family was a former employee who had a longstanding dispute with them

Today in History: October 7, Fox News Channel's debut

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:47 -0400

Today in History Today is Friday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2022. There are 85 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 7, 1991, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denied Hill’s allegations and would go on to win Senate confirmation. On this date: In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England. In 1916, in the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta. In 1949, the Republic of East Germany was formed. In 1982, the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical “Cats” opened on Broadway. (The show closed Sept. 10, 2000, after a record 7,485 performances.) In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) in the Mediterranean. (The hijackers shot and...

Shooting suspect in hotel near Detroit surrenders to police

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:34:29 -0400

An armed man accused of shooting and wounding one person and who then barricaded himself inside a room at a suburban Detroit hotel has surrendered and has been taken into custody

Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:00:45 -0400

The city of Philadelphia issued an apology more than four decades after unethical medical experiments were allowed to be performed on mostly Black inmates at the city's since closed Holmesburg Prison from the 1950s to the 1970s

Ian evacuees return to mud, rubble as death toll hits 101

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:13:45 -0400

Hurricane Ian’s death toll has climbed into the triple digits

Cops: Ex-grad student suspected in Arizona professor killing

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:13:33 -0400

A University of Arizona professor who authorities say was fatally shot on campus by a former graduate student was an expert on desert water issues who faculty and former students described as a kind and brilliant colleague

2 Russians seek asylum after reaching remote Alaska island

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:51:25 -0400

Two Russians who said they fled the country to avoid military service have requested asylum in the U.S. after landing on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Sea