Author: Jack Bogart

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Bodies keep surfacing — and so do questions.There’s a dark current in Houston’s bayous this year, with 16 bodies recovered, five of them in the same week last month.City leaders are downplaying speculation about a potential serial killer, but retired NYPD Sgt. Kevin Gannon, who has long espoused the theory that a group known as the “Smiley Face Killers” is responsible for hundreds of suspicious drowning deaths around the U.S., says he believes the deaths may be connected.”We’ve never seen drowning numbers like this before, especially with a drowning occurring every other…

NEED TO KNOW On Wednesday, Oct. 8, Maria Nunez, 86, was found dead having been fatally attacked by two dogs outside her home in Baxley, GeorgiaAccording to the Appling County Sheriff’s Office, Misty Branch, 53, has been charged in connection with Nunez’s deathNunez is survived by three daughters, nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren An 86-year-old grandmother was mauled to death in a “vicious attack” by two dogs in Georgia, according to police. At around 12:00 p.m. local time on Wednesday, Oct. 8, emergency services were dispatched to a residence on Popular Lane in Baxley, where they found 86-year-old Maria Nunez deceased…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At least four people are dead, and 12 others were injured overnight in a shooting in Leland, Mississippi, at a downtown event taking place during Leland High School homecoming weekend, the city’s mayor told Fox News Digital on Saturday. Leland Mayor John Lee said he had no information as to the identity of the shooter, who has not been located as of Saturday morning. He added that, “justice will be served.””I just want to say, you know, our prayers and condolences go out to the family of the deceased and the ones that’s…

NEED TO KNOW Dennis Rader, a.k.a. the “BTK Killer,” has confessed to murdering 10 people over the span of 30 yearsHe was arrested in 2005He’s the subject of the Netflix documentary My Father, the BTK Killer Dennis Rader is still making headlines from behind bars. The serial killer known as the Bind, Torture, Kill (“BTK”) Killer has continued to arouse investigators’ suspicion in several cold case murders since his 2005 arrest. Rader — who killed at least 10 victims over the span of three decades, per The New York Times — famously taunted police with his crimes through letters to…

Late last month, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced that the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed a federal lawsuit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), citing a “pattern or practice of infringing the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens seeking concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits.” The six-month federal investigation found “unreasonable delays” in how the LASD issued CCW permits. Records revealed that only two permits had been approved out of more than 8,000 applications, and in some cases, the department waited over two years to even interview applicants. “The Second Amendment protects the fundamental constitutional right…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The emerging Gaza peace framework crafted by President Donald Trump could reshape regional dynamics, but analysts warn that unless Hamas is fully stripped of its weapons and power, this will amount to little more than a pause for the terrorist group before it renews conflict.Dr. Michael Milshtein, head of the Moshe Dayan Forum at Tel Aviv University and one of Israel’s foremost experts on Hamas, says any plan that assumes the group will dissolve misunderstands its nature.”Forget words like peace and coexistence — that won’t happen,” he told Fox News Digital. Hamas leaders,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When the Biden administration opened the border to millions of illegal immigrants, the broadcast networks ignored the numbers and aired officials like Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calmly insisting, “There is no border crisis.”This wasn’t treated as controversial. What drew criticism instead were Republican “stunts” — when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sent migrants who entered their states illegally to Chicago, Martha’s Vineyard, or Washington, D.C. “It’s inhumane,” said “CBS Mornings” host Gayle King.So when the Trump administration moved to launch mass deportations and deployed the National Guard…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A passenger who rode with the man accused of sparking the deadly Palisades Fire on New Year’s Day in Southern California has spoken out about his unsettling encounter, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles.Officials say 29-year-old Uber driver Jonathan Rinderknecht sparked a small fire after dropping off passengers during the holiday. The blaze later re-ignited on Jan. 7 amid strong winds and grew into the massive Palisades Fire. Brennan White told FOX 11 that him and his fiancée were picked up by Rinderknecht on last New Year’s Eve, describing how the driver came across as “just…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A group of House GOP veterans are pressing Senate Democrats who also served in the military to support Republicans’ federal funding bill and end the government shutdown.U.S. troops are poised to miss their first paycheck of the ongoing shutdown on Oct. 15 with Republicans and Democrats still not able to agree on a path forward by next week.”We are a group of military veterans now serving in the House of Representatives who voted YES for the House’s September 19th Continuing Resolution. We write to you, fellow Veterans now serving…

NEED TO KNOW Iris Stalzer — the newly elected mayor of Herdecke, Germany — told police she was stabbed by her teenaged daughter on Oct. 7Newly released details imply that Stalzer’s 17-year-old daughter kept her in the basement for an “extended period” of time, during which she was tormented and stabbed 13 times, authorities sayStalzer also reportedly suffered several hematomas and fractures to her skull New details have emerged after it was reported that the newly elected mayor of a western German town had allegedly been stabbed by her teenage daughter. Iris Stalzer, 57, was found stabbed in her home…