SATSUMA, Fla. – The reward for information on the disappearance of north Florida girl Haleigh Cummings increased to $35,000. The Jacksonville-based Justice Coalition announced at a news conference Tuesday that it was adding $8,490 to increase the reward to help find the 5-year-old who has been missing for a month. …
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HOHENWALD, Tenn. – Detective Tony Grasson thought he was about to take a deathbed confession when he visited a hospital last month to talk to a man on the run from a murder charge since 1977. James Brewer was lying in a hospital bed in Shawnee, Okla., struggling to speak …
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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” March 5, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: A short time ago, we sat down with former presidential candidate Senator John McCain. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) VAN SUSTEREN: …
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JERUSALEM – The Israeli military on Thursday disputed Palestinian claims that most of the people killed in the recent Gaza Strip war were civilians, claiming the “vast majority” of the dead were Hamas militants. The claims were the latest salvo in what has become vastly different Israeli and Palestinian narratives …
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MORGANTOWN, West Virginia – Environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal, though they have yet to mobilize the millions of supporters they want. The activists have harnessed the power of the Web, social networking …
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DETROIT – A court hearing to determine whether the government can get DNA from a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane has been postponed. The federal court in Detroit says a hearing scheduled for Monday has been delayed until Jan. 8. No reason was given. …
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MADISON, Wis. – Texting while driving, smoking in public and cooking with artery-clogging trans fats will be that much harder under a bevy of state laws set to take effect around the country on Friday. Faced with huge budget shortfalls and little extra money to throw around, state lawmakers exercised …
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SEABROOK, Texas – An explosion at a chemical plant in the Houston area Wednesday shook nearby homes, generated black smoke seen for miles and injured two workers. A tank at the American Acryl plant in the Houston suburb of Pasadena exploded just before 9 a.m., Seabrook police Lt. Sean Wright …
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WASHINGTON – Georgetown University students are slamming an online humor magazine for a satirical piece they say is racist and not funny. The story in the Georgetown Heckler describes the official campus paper, The Hoya, holding a cross-burning on campus and refers to “dark, human-shaped pinatas.” The Heckler seems to …
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ISLAMABAD – Hundreds of rioting Muslims attacked Christians in eastern Pakistan on Saturday, burning and looting homes in a rampage that killed six Christians, including a child, and wounded 10 others in the latest violence against minorities in the conservative Muslim country. The unrest started late Thursday, when members of …
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