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Authorities in Oklahoma are searching for a suspect after a shooting at a school’s homecoming football game in Tulsa left one person dead and one injured, police said. One victim, 17, was shot and killed and another victim, also 17, was hospitalized with an undisclosed injury following the shooting at McLain High School, according to the Tulsa Police Department. The surviving victim is in stable condition, police said. "Dozens of Officers converged in the area assisting with crowd control and looking for the suspect. Our K-9 Unit and several Officers scoured the nearby neighborhoods as we believe the suspect took off on foot. Unfortunately, the trail went cold," Tulsa police said in a statement. PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DEAD, 4 OTHERS INJURED IN SHOOTING AFTER FOOTBALL SCRIMMAGE  The suspect, believed to be armed and dangerous, is described as "a 17-year-old Black male." "Homicide Detectives are actively working this case. We hope that of the hu...

Areas like Fort Myers have a long road ahead towards their recovery following Hurricane Ian’s initial U.S. landfall along the Gulf Coast Wednesday. Fox News’ Ashley Soriano rode along with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office to see the hard-to-reach areas. The devastation is undeniable and breathtaking. Video shows how widespread the damage is: boats in mangroves, cars completely underwater and shreds of wood remaining where homes once stood. LIVE UPDATES: HURRICANE IAN CONTINUES TO CRAWL TOWARD CAROLINAS, VIRGINIA; OFFICIALS CONFIRM 10 STORM-RELATED DEATHS Lee County, which includes Fort Myers, is one of the biggest counties in Florida with over 1,200 square miles of land. Sheriff Carmine Marceno says they still haven’t been able to reach some of the hardest hit areas . He describes the destruction as being "thrown around like little toys," something like nothing he’s seen before. "I’m a New Yorker transplanted to Florida. I've been in Florida over 20 years,...

California on Friday enacted a new law limiting prosecutors from using rap lyrics as evidence against criminal defendants. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills, including AB 2799, which requires a pre-trial hearing to determine if hip-hop lyrics are relevant to a case. The bill was approved by state lawmakers in August.  "For too long, prosecutors in California have used rap lyrics as a convenient way to inject racial bias and confusion into the criminal justice process," Dina LaPolt, entertainment attorney and co-founder of Songwriters of North America, told Variety in a statement. "This legislation sets up important guardrails that will help courts hold prosecutors accountable and prevent them from criminalizing Black and Brown artistic expression. Thank you, Gov Newsom, for setting the standard. We hope Congress will pass similar legislation, as this is a nationwide problem." PNB ROCK SHOOTING: FATHER, TEENAGE SON CHARGED WITH MURDER IN RAPPER'S KIL...

Los Angeles police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a serial robber known as the "Blue Cloth Bandit." Charles Chukwuma Onwuemelie, 26, is accused of a total 68 armed robberies that have occurred throughout the LA area since October 2021, according to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Onwuemelie allegedly "used a blue cloth to cover the handgun used in the robberies that occurred at gas stations, 7-11s and Walmarts," LAPD said in a press release. "The suspect would conceal himself by wearing different hats, a face mask, and rubber gloves," LAPD said. "The same vehicle was used in many of the robberies, and the same suspect was linked to the robberies based on several factors." LOS ANGELES GANG MEMBERS ARRESTED IN SHOOTING DEATH OF 12-YEAR-OLD BOY Onwuemelie's latest attempt occurred on Sept. 23, when detectives crafted a plan to initiate surveillance and serve a search warrant. WOMAN, TEEN ARRESTED IN FATAL SHOOTING OF RAP...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is offering the people of China a "congratulations" on behalf of the U.S. as the country celebrates the People's Republic of China National Day. The People's Republic of China National Day celebrates the founding of the People's Republic of China, which took place on Oct. 1, 1949. "On the occasion of the 73rd People’s Republic of China National Day, I offer my congratulations to the people of China on behalf of the United States of America," Blinken said in a Friday statement. "As the United States works with the international community to tackle the great obstacles the world faces today, we welcome the cooperation of the People’s Republic of China in addressing global challenges in health, climate change, counternarcotics, and other areas where our interests intersect." "We hope for a peaceful and happy year ahead for the people of China," he added. BIDEN SAYS US WOULD DEFEND TAIWAN IF CHI...

Two Democratic New York City leaders this week urged small business owners to try to deescalate situations instead of calling the police days before a man stabbed an on-duty EMS worker to death. The public safety tip sheet tweeted by Queens Councilwoman Tiffany Caban and Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a member of the state assembly, urges merchants to dial 311, seek mental health services for people with mental illnesses, and engage in "community mediation" instead of calling authorities. "We’re distributing them to local businesses, so our neighborhood is equipped with better ways of solving problems than simply summoning police every time a challenge arises," Caban tweeted Tuesday.  In addition to calling 311, the poster urges small business owners encountering conflict to use one of the five "Ds" of intervention: Direct, meaning directly intervene by saying no or using "I" and "We" statements, Delegate, Distract, Delay and Document.  NEW...

Paramount Plus has released a four-part documentary series titled "11 Minutes" detailing the events of the deadliest shooting in U.S. history five years after the tragedy left 58 people dead in a single evening. Two additional victims of the October 2017 shooting into a massive crowd of people at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas have died since that day, making officials' total death count 60 people, on top of the some 800 other victims who were injured in the shooting . "As a storyteller, I have often felt disappointed in how that night was shared. It felt like the narrative that was often explored was that of the worst person there and that the story faded fast into the next hard headline," survivor Ashley Hoff, one of the subjects of the docuseries, wrote in a Sept. 13 Facebook post about the series. "As the yearly markers passed, it felt more and more that the world stopped remembering the night 22,000 of us will never forget. I got to thin...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis issued a stern warning to those trying to take advantage of the victims of Hurricane Ian. DeSantis made the comments Friday during a news conference in Fort Myers, Florida . He said that while visiting nearby Punta Gorda, he saw a boarded-up business with a sign that read, "You loot, we shoot." "We are a law and order state, and this is a law and order community," DeSantis said. "So do not think that you're going to take advantage of people who've suffered misery." "Don't even think about looting," he said during another press conference later in the day. HURRICANE IAN IN FLORIDA SPURS FRANTIC MESSAGES ABOUT MISSING LOVED ONES AND WRECKED HOMES DeSantis added that people looking to "ransack people's homes" should beware: Florida is a Second Amendment state. "I can tell you in the state of Florida, you never know what may be lurking behind somebody's home," he said. "And...

A military judge on Friday acquitted a sailor of arson in connection with a fire that destroyed a billion-dollar amphibious assault ship. The ruling in favor of Ryan Sawyer Mays, 21, came after a nine-day trial at the Naval Base San Diego over the blaze aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard. "I can say that the past two years have been the hardest two years of my entire life as a young man," he said in a statement outside the courthouse. "I’ve lost time with friends. I’ve lost friends. I’ve lost time with family, and my entire Navy career was ruined. I am looking forward to starting over." Military prosecutors charged Mays with arson and the willful hazarding of a ship. They said he lit cardboard boxes on fire in a lower vehicle storage area of the $1.2 billion ship, which was docked in San Diego and undergoing maintenance at the time. US DESTROYER AND CANADIAN FRIGATE TRANSIT TAIWAN STRAIT AMID TENSIONS WITH CHINA Prosecutors said Mays was angry and vengeful abou...

Sitting in federal prison, Detrick Saulter wondered if he would have ended up there had he grown up with a father. His mother had Saulter when she was 15 and raised him on her own. Still, Saulter kept on a good path. "She did a great job, actually," the Memphis native told Fox News. "I went to college, I went to trade school, I steered away from all the bad stuff that was going on, the drugs and gangs ." But that changed when Saulter lost his job. MEMPHIS DA SAYS SOME FELLOW PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTORS ‘TARNISHED THE BRAND,’ LEARNED LESSONS FROM THEIR MISTAKES "Me not having a father, I didn't have anybody to lean on once I lost my job and nobody to talk to, so I started talking to the guys that I grew up with," Saulter said. "It was easy for me to fall into the same road that they was on." "If I would have had somebody that I could to talk to about it, kind of steer me … say, ‘You may have lost the job, but it’s another way, you can g...

Chad Daybell, a murder suspect accused with his wife, Lori Vallow, of killing Vallow's two children and collecting their social security benefits in 2019, is asking for his trial to be delayed and separated from his wife's.  The pair at the center of the bizarre murder case involving not only Vallow's two children but both Daybell's and Vallow's deceased ex-spouses were scheduled to appear in court together on Jan. 9 for a joint trial, but now, Daybell is making efforts to sever their cases, according to Tuesday court filings in Fremont County, Idaho . Daybell initially filed a motion to separate his case from his wife's in 2021, which the court denied in March citing three potential sources for prejudice. The murder suspect's lawyers argued that the court's reasoning was an incorrect application of Idaho law. "Mr. Daybell moves to sever his trial from that of his co-defendant based on the change in circumstances over the [10] months since he la...

High speed chases through town and school lockdowns in Uvalde, Texas , are commonplace as the town roughly 60 miles from the southern border continues to struggle with an unprecedented stream of illegal immigration.  On Wednesday evening, a three-vehicle crash downtown killed two people and injured 10 others. The two who were killed were in a pickup truck that Border Protection agents flagged as driving erratically.  The Texas Department of Public Safety, which is leading the investigation into the accident in Uvalde, confirmed on Thursday that it involved a 17-year-old girl who was "involved in human smuggling as she was smuggling nine illegal immigrants from Mexico."  UVALDE FATAL CRASH INVOLVED TRUCK SUSPECTED OF CARRYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, POLICE CHIEF SAYS The girl and an unidentified passenger in the front seat with her were killed after she ran a red light and drove into a 2006 Peterbilt truck. The crash sent the truck into a 2002 Dodge pickup.  The eigh...

Authorities in Minnesota said officers seized what could be the largest fentanyl pills bust in the Midwest when they confiscated 108,943 tablets from a suspected dealer.  Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said the bust stemmed from an Aug. 31 call to investigate a report of financial fraud . "Through some very, very good police work, they ended up getting – this more than likely the largest fentanyl pill seizure in the Midwest," he told reporters. "This is enough fentanyl to kill a fifth of the entire state's population." He said the doses were pressed M-30 pills and intended to appear as oxycodone doses. All in all, police say the total weight of the fentanyl is 24 pounds, Fox Minneapolis reported. FENTANYL IN DISGUISE: EXPERT CALLS DEADLY OPIOID'S PRESENCE A ‘SLOW-MOTION CHEMICAL WEAPON ATTACK’ The suspect, Marcus Trice, 36, has been federally charged with possession of the synthetic opioid, Hodges said. He is not from Minnesota , he said.  Ho...

A prominent Christian pastor in Los Angeles issued an open letter Thursday that rebuked Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his recent multi-state billboard campaign that promoted abortion by quoting Jesus. Pastor John MacArthur, 83, who serves as senior pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, also accused the governor of exhibiting a worldview whose "diabolical effects" have effectively trashed the state, leading to "epidemics of crime, homelessness, sexual perversions (like homosexuality and transgenderism), and other malignant expressions of human misery that stem directly from corrupt public policy." Newsom was met with outrage earlier this month from Christians who took offense when his gubernatorial campaign erected billboards in states where abortion is outlawed or restricted, urging women in such states to come to California to abort their babies. Some versions of the billboards advertised California's easily obtainable abortions b...

Naples Mayor, Teresa Heitmann, says the last 48 hours have been very stressful for her community with many residents still without power and the city in devastation. "[The hurricane] was fierce…fierce and fast. And it just came rushing in. We all knew that there would be a storm surge at high tide, but no one predicted the fierceness of the water and the flow," Mayor Heitmann told Fox News Digital.  Hurricane Ian came with 150 mph maximum sustained winds at landfall. The center of the storm was located about 80 miles north of Naples. City crews were out starting at 5 a.m. Thursday to begin assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Ian , which was later downgraded to a tropical storm before being upgraded to a Category 1 storm as it pushed out into the Atlantic.  "They've been sitting in our facilities and our planning department overnight waiting to be deployed to do exactly what they had to do. And that [is to] make magic happen and clean up the mess that was le...

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has added a new high-performance vehicle to its fleet after they seized a 2020 Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye. In a press release, the agency said they engaged "in a multi-agency street racing task force" after the driver of the Dodge was engaged in street racing. Following the investigation, the vehicle was awarded to the department.  TEXAS SHOOTING LEAVES 5 DEAD, SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, AUTHORITIES SAY The muscle car was seized in April 2021 after the driver was arrested following a high speed chase , with the driver hitting approximately 160 MPH and driving erratically in the well-populated areas of Houston, Texas. UVALDE FATAL CRASH INVOLVED TRUCK SUSPECTED OF CARRYING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, POLICE CHIEF SAYS A DPS officer in a patrolling aircraft saw two similar vehicles speeding from above and notified law enforcement in the area. A DPS Trooper attempted to stop the Dodge, but the suspect fled from the officer. Law enforcemen...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) on Thursday announced efforts to hire 25 new forensic analysts in the wake of a rape kit backlog highlighted by Memphis kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher's murder . Cleotha Henderson, the 38-year-old Memphis man charged with kidnapping and killing Fletcher while she was on an early-morning jog earlier this month, was later linked to another previously unsolved abduction and sexual assault from 2021. Officials believe Fletcher's slaying could have been avoided if the first case was processed in a timely manner. "For several years, Tennessee has made historic investments to support the TBI’s mission so that law enforcement can do its job and combat violent crime. As our nation faces rising crime, we are taking this additional step to eliminate bureaucratic hurdles, increase the TBI’s capacity and reduce testing turnaround times as quickly as possible," Lee said in a Thursday statement.  The 25...

A shooting at a Northern California educational campus that injured six people was most likely gang-related, authorities said Thursday. More than 30 shots were fired Wednesday at the campus on Oakland's Fontaine Street, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said during a Zoom news conference on Thursday.  "That is wholly unacceptable," he said. "We do believe that this incident is group and gang-related . We believe that this is related to ongoing conflicts in our city that has driven violence throughout our city." He said investigators believe there were two shooters and one accomplice, but there may have been more. OAKLAND POLICE SAY SCHOOL SHOOTING NOT ‘DELIBERATE,’ STUDENT VICTIM NOT INTENDED TARGET The shooting injured two students, a counselor, security guard and two other employees. As of Thursday, three victims have been released from hospitals. One was in stable condition and two others were listed in critical condition.  The King Estates campus...

A convicted bomb maker was captured by Las Vegas officials on Wednesday after escaping from a Nevada prison last week.  Porfirio Duarte-Herrera, 42, was taken into custody without incident by Las Vegas police on Wednesday night. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said on Twitter that patrol officers found him near Eastern Avenue and Owen Avenue. The Nevada Department of Corrections said that Duarte-Herrera escaped from the Southern Desert Correctional Center in Indian Springs last Friday night. Officials were unaware of his escape until he was found missing from a Tuesday morning headcount at the medium-security prison. Duarte-Herrera, a Nicaraguan immigrant, is serving a life sentence for building and planting a pipe bomb in a Luxor Resort and Casino parking garage on the Las Vegas Strip in 2007.  SWAT ARRESTS CALIFORNIA MAN FOR PLOTTING ‘LAS VEGAS-STYLE’ MASS SHOOTING The attack killed 27-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, who was seeing Duarte-H...

A 20-year-old Southern California woman was charged with murder this week after she ran over a man she accused of attempting to drive over a cat, Orange County authorities said Wednesday.  Hannah Star Esser got out of her car in the Cypress neighborhood of Orange County Sunday evening to accuse Luis Anthony Victor of aiming for a cat with his car in the cul-de-sac on Graham Street. Cypress is west of Anaheim.  Following the heated argument, during which Victor also got out of his car, Esser allegedly got back in hers, made a three-point turn and accelerated into him, launching him onto the hood of her car.  He flipped several times before landing in the street, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s office.  LOS ANGELES WOMAN INJURED BY TEEN HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER BLASTS DA GEORGE GASCON AT EARLY RELEASE HEARING   Esser faces one felony count of murder. She is being held on $1 million bail.  According to his family, Luis was a father to five...

FIRST ON FOX – A memo circulating among Senate Republicans this week details how the fentanyl crisis continues to worsen across U.S. communities as southern border drug seizures and encounters reach record highs. Those who have witnessed activity at the border believe the crisis at the border and the fentanyl crisis are correlated. "Yeah, I've never seen anything like this. The numbers, the organization, the movement. And the federal government is doing a masterful job of keeping it on the down-low as much as possible — santizing it as much as possible," retired Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent and Texas congressional candidate Frank Lopez Jr. told Fox News Digital. CBP agents seized an unprecedented 10,500 lbs. of the deadly drug in 2021, and seizures have already surpassed 12,000 lbs. so far this year — the most fentanyl ever seized in a single year in the United States. That much fentanyl could kill the entire U.S. population eight times over, the memo circul...

LANCASTER, Calif. - A Los Angeles woman who was mowed down along with her 8-month-old baby by a teen in a stolen car during a hit-and-run blasted Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon over the suspect's light punishment on Wednesday during an early release hearing.  The woman, who has asked only to be identified as Rachel, said she doesn't believe the teen suspect has been rehabilitated in the five months since he was sent to a juvenile probation camp.  "Nobody in the room actually believes that (the suspect) is a good kid," she said via a conference call into a Los Angeles County courtroom in Lancaster, California . "Look at what he did. Nobody changes who they are to the core in four months." Judge Mario Barrera on Wednesday said more evidence was needed before he decides whether to grant the teen's early release request.  CALIFORNIA TEEN SUBJECT OF AMBER ALERT KILLED IN SHOOTOUT BETWEEN HER FATHER AND DEPUTIES, AUTHORITIES SAY Prose...

A previously deported illegal immigrant with a criminal record tried taking a weapon away from a soldier Tuesday after fleeing at the southern border, officials said.  Ricardo Jamie-Ruiz, 45, a Mexican citizen, was part of a large group of migrants that was caught by Border Patrol agents near Bentsen Palm Community Park in Mission, Texas, the Texas Department of Public Safety said Wednesday.  The incident began around 4 a.m. when the migrants were taken into custody. A Texas National Guard soldier was assisting border agents when Jamie-Ruiz allegedly fled.  MAJORITY OF TEXANS, 40 PERCENT OF HISPANICS AND LATINOS SUPPORT MIGRANT BUSSING: POLL After issuing verbal commands to stop, he allegedly grabbed the soldier's M-4 rifle "with both hands in an attempt to seize the weapon for himself," authorities said.  "The soldier was able to maintain possession of his weapon," according to a DPS statement.  Jamie-Ruiz was arrested a short time later and the Texas ...

U.S. Capitol Police arrested two people they believe were involved in a shooting at Union Station on Wednesday.  A Capitol Police officer heard gunshots ring out at Union Station at about 4 p.m., according to a press release. At about the same time, Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police received a call to assist Amtrak police with the incident, according to FOX 5 DC .  VERMONT HUNTER FACES CHARGES AFTER SHOOTING MAN HE THOUGHT WAS BEAR Capitol Police said one of the people they arrested had a handgun.  "Amtrak Police, in cooperation with MPD and Capital Police, is investigating a shooting that took place today at Washington Union Station," Amtrak told Fox News Digital in a statement. "The incident happened in the west wing of station. One person suffered a minor foot injury and was transported to a local hospital. Another person is in custody. The investigation is ongoing." Capitol Police officers found the two suspects near North Capitol Street and H Street. ...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Georgia police have arrested an 82-year-old man in the stabbing death of his 80-year-old wife after he initially reported her death a suicide. Judith Miller and Bruce Miller had been together 56 years when Judith Miller died from an apparent stab wound on Sept. 15. Roswell police responded to reports of a suicide at the couple's home on Oakhaven Drive. Bruce Miller "made the original 911 call and provided a statement to investigators indicating that Judith’s wound was self-inflicted, and that she had taken her own life," Roswell police said in a Wednesday Facebook post. DEBBIE COLLIER MURDER: VETERAN HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS BREAK DOWN KEY FACTS AS KILLER REMAINS AT-LARGE An autopsy and investigation by the Roswell Police Department , however, led investigators to rule Judith Miller's death a homi...

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