An alligator on the runway at Southwest Florida International Airport forced American Airlines and Delta arrivals into delay maneuvers late on October 12, with one jet landing 17 minutes late. Controllers at the Fort Myers airport flagged the problem just before 11 p.m. local time. An alligator had ...

President Trump told a Bullhead City crowd he asked Qatar’s emir to lend a 747 as Air Force One while new planes finish, and received an outright gift offer instead. President Trump told supporters in Bullhead City, Ariz., that he personally called Qatar’s leader and asked to borrow one of the c...

An Air Force major who called for President Trump’s impeachment in uniform is held in solitary 24 hours a day, his attorney says, with court-martial charges advancing. Maj. Jason Watson has sat in pretrial confinement since mid-August after publicly urging the president’s removal while wearing h...

A New York man pleaded guilty to murdering and dismembering his ex-girlfriend after she left him, and police found her severed head stored in a suitcase at his home. Damon Foy, 50, entered a guilty plea on Oct. 7 to second-degree murder in the 2024 death of Alberta Dale, 44, in Ulster County, N.Y. P...

The Army ordered a new autonomous systems command a day after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a joint push to scale unmanned warfare across the force. Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle signed an Oct. 1 memo creating the U.S. Army Futures and Autonomous Systems Command, known as FASCOM. The o...

The FBI believes a California firefighter staged his Suisun Bay drowning more than three years ago to avoid child pornography charges, and agents report multiple sightings since. Charles Johnathen Harris, an Alameda County Fire Department firefighter, was reported drowned on April 4, 2023, during a ...

Fugitive businessman Alvaro Pulido is in U.S. custody on long-running bribery charges tied to Venezuelan state contracts, with a first Miami court date set for Tuesday. American officials said Sunday that the 62-year-old Colombian-born businessman had been taken into U.S. custody after years as a wa...

Retired San Francisco sergeant Kevin Mannix fatally shot his wife and daughter before killing himself in Marin County, officials call it a suspected murder-suicide. Marin County deputies answered a 911 call around 5 p.m. Sunday at a family home on Strawberry Circle, an affluent area east of Mill Val...

A Pennsylvania father says the gunman who killed eight at an Erie home, including his 1-year-old daughter, was the family's patriarch and a grandfather. Julius Windham stood Sunday at a memorial outside the Erie house where his toddler Amarianna died, wearing a T-shirt printed with photos of the wom...

A newly public Army investigation concludes that stacked safety layers failed before a Black Hawk and an American Airlines jet collided near Reagan National, killing 67, while families still press for accountability beyond new recommendations. The U.S. Army’s 50-page investigation, dated May 14, 2...