Joran van der Sloot is headed back to Peru after he confessed to the 2005 murder of Natalee Holloway in Aruba. Almost two weeks after pleading guilty in an extortion case targeting her family, George Patriot Seymore, Beth Holloway’s spokesperson, told Fox News Digital that van der Sloot has left …
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A University of Massachusetts Amherst student was arrested after allegedly punching a Jewish student and spitting on the Israeli flag the student was holding. The incident took place Friday night at the end of a vigil organized by UMass Hillel in which students called for the release of the more …
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Less than two weeks after 18 people were killed by a gunman in their small New England city, residents headed gingerly to polling places Tuesday. The mood was somber. Several shooting survivors remained hospitalized, flags flew at half-staff, and funerals were being held this week for those who died in …
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NORFOLK, Va. – The owner of a small airplane that crashed early Wednesday into a botanical garden in Virginia, killing three people, says the flight originated in Key West, Florida. James Beauchamp of Corapeake, North Carolina, says the 1975 Mooney aircraft was piloted by a friend, Michael Buxton of Portsmouth, …
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ALBION, Pa. – Inmates and staff at a northwestern Pennsylvania prison are using portable toilets and trucked in water after a leak drained the facility of more than 3 million gallons. Water supplies to the State Correctional Institution at Albion have been cut off since a leak was discovered Sunday …
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MILWAUKEE – An Ohio cheesemaker won the United States Championship Cheese with a 200-pound Swiss wheel. Guggisberg Cheese in Millersburg, Ohio, beat out 1,892 entries from 28 states. Out of a possible 100 points, the Swiss wheel scored 98.496 in the final round of judging Thursday. First runner-up was a …
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HONOLULU – A supervisor at the Veterans Administration office in Honolulu was manipulating data to make it look like the agency was processing veterans’ benefits claims faster than they actually were, according to a new report by the VA Office of Inspector General. The data manipulation happened last year when …
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ST. LOUIS – Pornographic magazine publisher Larry Flynt is persevering in his legal fight to publicize details about Missouri’s execution methods. This follows the November 2013 execution of the white supremacist gunman who left him paralyzed. A federal district court judge denied Flynt’s attempt to intervene in a 2013 lawsuit …
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MADISON, Wis. – Gov. Scott Walker is following through on his campaign promise to require drug testing for public aid recipients in Wisconsin and limiting how long they can receive benefits. The potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate on Thursday announced more details about those plans that he first proposed during …
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ABERDEEN, S.D. – Andrew Fischer was a stock clerk earning less than $100 a week in 1963 when a doctor explained why his pregnant wife’s belly had grown so large: She was about to give birth to five babies, who would become the first known surviving quintuplets born in the …
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