TYLER, Texas – More than 1,000 mourners gathered Saturday at a funeral service for a Wal-Mart clerk whose chilling abduction was captured on surveillance videotape. Friends and family remembered Megan LeAnn Holden (search), 19, as a beautiful, compassionate young woman known for her smile. Photos of Holden growing up — …
Read More »
BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. military forces experienced their deadliest day in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 war as 31 personnel died in a helicopter crash and another six died in insurgent attacks. Lt. Gen. John Sattler, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (search) in Iraq, said 30 …
Read More »
FORT HOOD, Texas – A Syrian insurgent held at Abu Ghraib prison testified by video Tuesday that Army Spc. Charles Graner (search) merrily whistled, sang and laughed while brutalizing him and forced him to eat pork and drink alcohol in violation of his Muslim faith. An Iraqi detainee later told …
Read More »
KUWAIT CITY – Kuwait (search) pledged US$100 million in aid to victims of South Asia’s earthquake and tsunamis Sunday, increasing its original pledge 10-fold. Thirty percent of the US$100 million will be in cash, and the rest will finance infrastructure projects to be built and managed by the government’s Kuwait …
Read More »
LOS ANGELES – Rain-soaked California (search) got even wetter Monday as another storm dumped heavy snow in the mountains, eroded beaches and shut down a 40-mile stretch of the state’s major north-south highway. Flooded roads turned Southern California’s morning commute into a white-knuckle obstacle course, while mountain snow left the …
Read More »
HOUSTON – A federal court jury Wednesday acquitted three former Enron Corp. (search) broadband executives of some charges but deadlocked on the remaining charges involving them and two other executives. The five were on trial for their alleged roles in making the washout broadband venture appear strong to investors and …
Read More »
ATLANTA – A fuel tanker crashed and sprung a small leak early Tuesday after the driver was hit by a firecracker as he drove past a group of youths, authorities said. The driver was seriously injured, and two or three nearby apartment buildings were evacuated as a precaution, they said. …
Read More »
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – Shasta Groene (search), the Idaho girl found safe six weeks after she was kidnapped, told investigators she and her brother, Dylan, were repeatedly molested during their harrowing ordeal. The 8-year-old’s statements place suspect Joseph Edward Duncan III (search) inside the rural Idaho home where the girl’s …
Read More »
WASHINGTON – The orange alert instituted two weeks ago for U.S. mass transit systems is likely to be prolonged after the latest terrorist attacks in London. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (search) and his staff discussed the mass transit alert levels several times Thursday, before and after the attacks, said …
Read More »
WASHINGTON – Former hostage William Daugherty spoke with FOX News’ James Rosen on Thursday about his recognition of Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (search) as one of the student captors who held him and 52 other Americans hostage for 444 days beginning Nov. 4, 1979. FOX NEWS’ JAMES ROSEN: How certain …
Read More »