FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The FBI agent who interrogated Saddam Hussein alone for months after the former Iraqi leader’s capture is now leading the investigation into the Florida airport shooting rampage blamed on an Iraq war veteran.
MEXICO CITY — A suspect in the shooting of a U.S. consular official in the Mexican city of Guadalajara was arrested today, the state prosecutor's office said.
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean Buddhist monk is in critical condition after setting himself on fire to protest the country’s settlement with Japan on compensation for wartime sex slaves, officials said today.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Justin Jackson scored 21 points and No. 14 North Carolina ran off a 20-0 first-half run to blow today’s game open and beat North Carolina State 107-56.
LOS ANGELES — Mariah Carey is blaming producers for her bungled performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” saying, “They foiled me.”
COLUMBUS — Ohio State will lose one of its top receiving targets to the National Football League draft — just not the one most expected.
LONDON — London Underground station staff have begun a 24-hour strike that looks set to shut down much of the subway network for the morning rush hour.
LOS ANGELES — “Star Wars” is still dominating the movie universe, with “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” topping the box office for the fourth straight week.
LUDINGTON, Mich. — Moo-ve over: One Michigan city has officially claimed another’s ice cream world record.
OXFORD, Ohio — An Ohio college has pledged $350,000 for an Amtrak train stop to give students, parents and alumni another transportation option.
NEWTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman whose dismembered 14-year-old daughter’s remains were found in the woods last fall has been charged along with her boyfriend with killing the girl in what officials are calling a “rape-murder fantasy” the couple shared, a prosecutor said today.
LAKEHURST, N.J. — The Federal Aviation Administration says someone pointed a green laser at a military transport plane as it flew over New Jersey.
DURHAM, N.C. — The first big snowstorm of the year in the Northeast dumped more than a foot of snow in areas of southern New England after leaving a glaze of ice and snow and bitterly cold temperatures across the South. Below freezing temperatures persisted throughout much of the eastern U.S. today.
BATH, Maine — With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China.
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem today, killing four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said, in one of the deadliest attacks of a more than yearlong campaign of violence.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — At least four of the five people killed in the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting were on vacation, headed for cruises that promised sun, sand and fun. They were collecting their luggage when a gunman opened fired in the baggage claim area of Terminal 2 at the airport — a hub for cruisers headed to Port Everglades.
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has attended church near her rural Sandringham estate, after missing the previous two Sundays due to ill health.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is nothing to a second police investigation into corruption charges.
BEIRUT — Syria’s state news agency says a car bomb explosion in southwest Damascus has killed at least five people and injured 15 others.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — While investigators try to figure out the motive of an Iraq war veteran accused of killing five travelers and wounding six others at a busy international airport in Florida, the suspected gunman was charged and could face the death penalty if convicted.
Whether from inside the arc, beyond the 3-point line, or from the free-throw line, the shots were falling for the University of Toledo men’s basketball team against Miami on Saturday at Savage Arena.
The Toledo Fire Department responded to a house fire after midnight Saturday on Norwood Avenue in Toledo. Neighbors reported hearing an explosion. Reports indicated that three homes had caught fire, but no injuries or fatalities had been reported.
Four members of Wauseon’s wrestling team reached the finals of the Perrysburg Invitational Tournament on Saturday evening.
SEATTLE — The formula that has led the Seattle Seahawks to unmatched success over the past five seasons returned.
The University of Toledo women’s basketball team dominated the fourth quarter against Miami, pulling away for a 64-50 win on Saturday afternoon at Savage Arena.