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A Brandon, Florida, 7-Eleven employee was violently attacked by an armed man Thursday morning, and authorities hope by releasing the surveillance footage, they can catch the culprit. Detectives with the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office released a video of the incident which took place at about 4:41 a.m. at the 7-Eleven at 810 East Brandon Boulevard. The suspect, a Black male wearing red shorts, white sneakers and a multicolored Reebok short-sleeve hoodie with a black long-sleeve shirt underneath, is seen on video walking into the convenience store before walking over to a shelf and grabbing a product. FLORIDA WOMAN IN HOSPITAL GOWN ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY STEALING AMBULANCE He then walks over to the cashier, puts the product down on the counter, leans in to say something and walks behind the counter. The surveillance footage then cuts to a camera pointing to the area behind the counter, and the suspect is seen walking up to the employee from behind and putting his hand on h...

Two people were killed and at least three others were injured after a shooting at a Texas shopping center .  The Austin Police Department said officers responded to the Arboretum Shopping Center shortly after 5 p.m. after shots were fired. "APD resources are working to stabilize the scene," an APD social media post said.  FLORIDA POLICE RESPOND TO STABBING AT TAMPA-AREA HIGH SCHOOL Fox News Digital has reached out to authorities.  The Austin-Travis County EMS said two adults were pronounced dead at the scene and another adult was taken to a hospital with critical, life-threatening injuries. Two other adults were being evaluated for minor injuries. Authorities have not said what led to the shooting .  There was no threat to the public, police said.  source https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-shopping-center-shooting-leaves-least-2-dead-multiple-injured

A woman in Florida was arrested on Wednesday afternoon after allegedly stealing an ambulance from a local hospital. The Port St. Lucie Police Department said in a Facebook post that 25-year-old Marquisa Allen stole an unoccupied ambulance from the HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital in Port St. Lucie, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon. Officials said Allen was sitting on a beach in her hospital gown when she decided to allegedly drive off with the ambulance while personnel were inside dropping off a patient. The ambulance is equipped with a GPS tracker, which allowed police to locate the alleged stolen vehicle and give the location to other law enforcement partners. DESANTIS SAYS 'SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE' IN FLORIDA FROM HURRICANE IDALIA, DOZENS OF RESCUES When Florida Highway Patrol Troopers were closing on Allen, she decided to exit the ambulance and run before being taken into custody, officials said. She was taken into custody and booked on charges of giving false information t...

A passenger on the world's largest cruise ship sailing with Royal Caribbean went overboard on Tuesday. The passenger went overboard on Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas off the coast of Cuba on Tuesday during a seven-day cruise departing from Port Canaveral, Florida, a company spokesperson said. A spokesperson for the cruise told Fox News Digital that the ship's crew immediately began a search and rescue operation and is working with local authorities. "Out of respect for the family, we will not share further details about this unfortunate event," the spokesperson said. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISE PASSENGER WHO ‘COULD NOT SWIM’ GOES OVERBOARD IN SINGAPORE STRAIT Video shared by cruise passengers on TikTok shows a rescue boat near the cruise ship attempting to locate the passenger who went overboard . "We actually have report of a man overboard. We have slowed the ship down. We have turned around and we are heading back to the position that we had at that...

A Texas UPS worker died this week after becoming ill amid an extreme heatwave , the company said.  Christopher Begley, 57, worked for the parcel delivery company for 28 years before he died Monday. He was assigned to UPS' facility in McKinney, a Dallas suburb.  "We are saddened by the loss of our driver Christopher Begley and extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends," a UPS statement to Fox News Digital said. "We are cooperating with the authorities as they continue to investigate the cause of death. We train our people to recognize the symptoms of heat stress, and we respond immediately to any request for help." PHOENIX CONTINUES TO BATTLE EXTREME HEAT AS SUMMER DRAWS TO A CLOSE On Aug. 23, Begley was delivering a package in the heat and eventually called UPS management informing them that he wasn't feeling well, the shipping company said. Temperatures in the Dallas area that day reached up to 103 degrees.  He collapsed outside a cust...

A 20-year-old hiker lost consciousness on Maine's tallest mountain and spent a scary night on the infamous Knife Edge Trail before being airlifted to safety by a Maine Army National Guard helicopter, officials said Wednesday. The hiker began struggling after her group of six reached the summit of 5,269-foot Mount Katahdin around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, and she was unable to go any farther while attempting to cross the Knife Edge, said Kevin Adam, director of Baxter State Park. 13-YEAR-OLD TOURIST SURVIVES NEARLY 100-FOOT FALL AT GRAND CANYON The hiker was airlifted to a hospital Sunday morning in Bangor , Adam said. She was released from the emergency room, but her condition was not known, he said. It was a tense, hours-long situation after the group dialed 911 and a ranger arrived at 11:30 p.m. to find the hiker unconscious, Adam said. PARENTS OF MAINE TEEN WHO DIED ON SCHOOL-SPONSORED HIKING TRIP SUE DISTRICT The other hikers told rescuers the illness came on quickly on the Kn...

Los Angeles police investigators Wednesday said an alleged speeding motorist who collided with an Uber vehicle over the weekend, killing two sisters and their friend inside, is a gang member with an extensive criminal history and was on probation related to a murder case.  Gregory Black, 31, is charged with three counts of gross vehicular manslaughter for the deaths of Juvelyn Arroyo and Veronica Amezola, both 23, and 27-year-old Kimberly Izquierdo. Amezola and Izquierdo were sisters, and Arroyo was a friend. The Los Angeles Police Department said Black was speeding in a white Mercedes-Benz on early Saturday morning, and ran multiple red lights before he T-boned the Uber at the intersection of Century Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. Investigators said Black was traveling at speeds of up to 100 mph in a 35 mph zone.  Arroyo, Amezola and Izquierdo were in the backseat of the Uber sedan and died at the scene. LOS ANGELES-AREA CRIME TASK FORCE MAKES 11 ARRESTS LINKED TO BRAZE...

Tropical Storm Idalia has already caused severe damage and catastrophic flooding as it continues to go through several Southeastern states. Idalia made landfall as a near Keaton Beach in Florida's Big Bend just before 8 a.m. local time as a powerful Category 3 storm with winds up to 125 mph. FOX Weather reported that the storm caused a catastrophic storm surge in Cedar Key, Florida, which stopped reporting at 6.89 feet. The National Hurricane center's forecast for storm surge in the area was nearly 10 feet prior to landfall. Video footage from Keaton Beach, Florida shows storm surge quickly rising up the porch of someone's home and sent waves over its railing. HURRICANE IDALIA MAKES LANDFALL OVER FLORIDA'S BIG BEND AS A CATEGORY 3, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER Pictures from the area taken after the storm passed begin to show the damage caused by Idalia, with portions of entire homes seemingly being ripped to pieces. The storm impacted portions of Southwes...

The man who's been serving as interim police chief in Mississippi's capital was chosen Tuesday to fill the seat on a permanent basis. The Jackson City Council vote unanimously Tuesday to approve Joseph Wade as the city's new police chief. He had been serving as interim chief since June 1 when former chief James Davis retired after three decades of service to the department, five as chief, The Clarion Ledger reported. "I will be the chief for all wards. I will be the chief of North Jackson, Downtown Jackson, West Jackson and South Jackson. I will represent the city of Jackson well and with honor," Wade said before being confirmed. LOCAL MISSISSIPPI NEWS OUTLET ASKS COURT TO THROW OUT DEFAMATION SUIT INVOLVING FORMER GOV. PHIL BRYANT Wade, who has 28 years of service, inherits a police department that has seen its force dwindle in recent years, partly due to a lack of pay and what some say has been a lack of leadership. The average Police Officer salary in Jac...

A Detroit-area man linked to an anti-government group and arrested just before the 2022 election was sentenced to a year in prison Monday for gun-related crimes. Timothy Teagan had attended various rallies with an AR-style rifle while dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, clothing favored by the Boogaloo Boys, a group bracing for a U.S. civil war. Teagan, 23, did not face terrorism charges . But he pleaded guilty to concealing his chronic use of marijuana when applying for a gun purchase and possessing a firearm and ammunition while being a drug user. Both are federal crimes. MICHIGAN MAN, EXTREMIST 'BOOGALOO BOY,' PLEADS GUILTY TO GUN CHARGES U.S. District Judge Sean Cox sentenced Teagan to a year in prison. He'll get credit for time spent in jail since his arrest last November. In a court filing, defense attorney Todd Shanker said Teagan never "raised his rifle or was involved in violence" with the Boogaloo Boys. OHIO MAN WHO IS ALLEGEDLY A MEMBER OF THE 'BOOG...

Four people, including two young children, were found dead Monday in a New York City apartment in a possible murder-suicide, police said.  Officers were called to perform a wellness check in a fourth-floor apartment unit at 328 W. 86th Street just before 3 p.m., the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital. Once inside, the y found a man and woman, 41 and 40, respectiv e ly, and two children, a 1-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl.  JUDGE ORDERS NEW TRIALS FOR MEN CONVICTED OF UPSTATE NY WOMAN'S 1993 MURDER The NYPD did not say whether the four were related. The New York Post reported all four were family members who were stabbed to death, citing law enforcement sources. The man and woman had "trauma" to the neck, police said. The girl was stabbed in her torso while the infant was injured throughout his body. First responders pronounced all four dead at the scene.  Detectives were looking into the deaths as a possible murder-suicide , the NYPD said.  ...

Shuwaski Young, the Democratic nominee for Mississippi secretary of state, will withdraw his candidacy ahead of the November general election as he battles health issues. Weeks before Young's Sunday announcement, he had secured the Democratic nomination to take on Republican incumbent Michael Watson after running unopposed in the Aug. 8 primary election . "Recently, I suffered a hypertensive crisis which placed an immediate and continuous challenge on my ability to campaign for the Office of Secretary of State," Young said in a news release. "My intent was to press forward knowing full-well the risk being placed on my health due to a rigorous campaign schedule. I can no longer take this risk." MULLEN AUTOMOTIVE'S NEW ELECTRIC CAR FACTORY IN MISSISSIPPI MARKS MILESTONE WITH DEBUT OF CLASS 3 EV TRUCK   Young worked in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security during Barack Obama’s presidency and in the Secretary of State’s Office under Democrat Eric Clark...

The retired federal judge leading Georgia's State Election Board is resigning effective Friday from the panel, which sought under his tenure to debunk unfounded claims of election fraud stemming from the 2020 presidential vote. Gov. Brian Kemp made the announcement Monday that William "Bill" Duffey Jr. would be stepping down, although his resignation letter was dated July 18. Duffey wrote that he wanted to step down now that the board has transitioned to a freestanding agency under Georgia's 2021 election law. It previously was chaired by the secretary of state. "Now that a new board structure is in place, it is important to name the next chair in sufficient time for that person to continue to prepare for the 2024 election cycle," Duffey wrote. The board makes rules for state elections and recommends what should be done about people who break rules and laws. GEORGIA JUDGE BLOCKS PROVISION PROHIBITING THE DISTRIBUTION OF WATER AT VOTING POLLS Duffey ha...

Texas coach Steve Sarkisian figures Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark won't be sitting down to break bread with the Longhorns this season, Texas' last in the league . Sarkisian was asked Monday at his weekly news conference about Yormark's recent comment telling Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire that his team "better take care of business" when the Red Raiders play Texas the day after Thanksgiving. While Yormark said he'll be in Austin for the game, Sarkisian said not to expect an invitation to sit down for a Thanksgiving meal. "You know, I got a letter from the commissioner about sportsmanship the day before that speech," Sarkisian said Monday. "So, I’m trying to figure out what are we promoting to our student-athletes and then to go say those type of things. So I’m not guessing that he’s going to be having his Thanksgiving dinner with us the night before that game." BIDEN'S LAWSUIT AGAINST TEXAS' BORDER BUOYS DOESN'T HOLD WATE...

Google will invest an additional $1.7 billion to support three data center campuses in central Ohio , the company announced Monday. VIVEK RAMASWAMY WAS THE MOST GOOGLE-SEARCHED CANDIDATE AT THE GOP DEBATE The tech giant now operates a center in New Albany and announced in May that it would build additional centers in Columbus and Lancaster to help power its artificial intelligence technology and other tools. Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president of government affairs and public policy, said the additional money will be used to complete the Columbus and Lancaster centers and expand the New Albany facility, but did not disclose more specific details. MICROSOFT LAND BUY OUTSIDE MILWAUKEE SLATED TO BECOME $1B DATA CENTER Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who participated in Google’s announcement, said no tax credits or other public incentives were offered to Google for the data-center expansion. Data centers have proliferated across the U.S. and become a welcome revenue source for local gover...

A western Michigan woman whose three young sons drowned last year after her SUV crashed into an ice-covered pond pleaded no contest Monday to several charges in connection with the crash. An Ottawa County judge accepted Leticia Gonzales' no contest plea Monday to operating while intoxicated causing serious injury and three misdemeanor charges of moving violation causing death. MI WOMAN WITHDRAWS PLEA, WILL STAND TRIAL FOR 3 YOUNG SONS' DROWNING DEATHS IN POND CRASH The Holland-area woman is set to be sentenced on Sept. 25. Sentencing guidelines call for an incarceration ranging from seven months to two years. Ottawa County police said Gonzales was driving her sport utility vehicle in February 2022 when she veered off the left side of a road, jumped a curb and the SUV rolled into an ice-covered retention pond. Her sons, Jerome III, 4, Jeremiah, 3, and Josiah, 1, drowned while strapped into their child-restraint seats. MICHIGAN WOMAN WHOSE CHILDREN DROWNED IN ICY POND CRAS...

A federal jury in San Francisco has found a Michigan man guilty of failing to deliver almost $3.5 million worth of N95 masks to thousands of customers as the COVID-19 pandemic began. DOJ ANNOUNCES CHARGES AGAINST HUNDREDS ACCUSED OF STEALING COVID-19 FUNDS Online court records show the jury found Rodney Lewis Stevenson II of Muskegon guilty of wire and mail fraud as well as money laundering Thursday. DEEP-BLUE STATE DOLED OUT $5.2 BILLION IN 'OVERPAYMENTS' DURING COVID, GAVE MILLIONS TO DEAD PEOPLE: AUDIT Stevenson was indicted in January 2021. According to prosecutors, he advertised N95 masks on a website complete with fake names and photographs of company executives. He sold $3.5 million worth of masks to 25,000 customers between February and March 2020 but never delivered most of them and refused to issue refunds. Stevenson's attorney, listed in online court records as Robert Frederick Waggener, declined to comment. source https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-m...

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Just months after the release of a true-crime book about the disappearance and murder of an 8-year-old Pennsylvania girl, police cracked the nearly 50-year-old cold case. Pennsylvania authorities arrested and charged retired pastor David Zandstra, 83, of Marietta, Georgia, in July, 48 years after he allegedly kidnapped, assaulted and killed Gretchen Harrington while she was on her way to Bible vacation school in Marple Township, according to the Delaware County District Attorney's Office. Joanna Sullivan, who grew up in Marple Township and co-wrote "Marple's Gretchen Harrington Tragedy" with her childhood friend Mike Mathis, told Fox News Digital that the book "definitely" played a role in Zandstra's arrest, adding that local authorities personally shared their belief that the book helped them investigate and eventually close the case. "The book was published, and we started hearing a couple of months later that they were actively looking at a ...

Artificial intelligence could have essentially shrunk the haystack to find the needle after hackers crippled the Colonial Pipeline with a ransomware attack, and minimized the disastrous aftermath, an expert said. The 2021 Colonial Pipeline shutdown was the result of the largest recorded cyberattack on United States critical infrastructure, which is an easy target because of protection systems that are out of date, said Alice Globus, chief financial officer of Nanotronics, which describes itself as an "industrial AI company." "With most critical infrastructure, whether it's manufacturing of some of these other systems like hospitals, they use older technology that's not updated that often," Globus told Fox News Digital. "They're low-hanging fruit for cyberattacks ." Major pipelines are not the only target, Globus said; it's everything from dams to satellites to schools and hospitals, which have captured headlines in recent weeks. DISTU...

A 16-year-old was arrested Friday for allegedly committing a series of armed carjackings and robberies over the span of just a few hours in the D.C. area. D.C.’s Metropolitan Police said a 16-year-old juvenile male of Southeast, D.C. was arrested Friday and charged with armed carjacking and armed robbery along with kidnapping, possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of unregistered ammunition, and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device.  Police said the suspect committed three armed carjackings between 2:44 a.m. and 4:46 a.m. in Southeast, D.C.  The suspect committed an armed robbery and kidnapping just after 10 p.m. later that evening, police said.  OREGON INMATE ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING, LOCKING WOMAN IN CINDER BLOCK CELL TRIES TO ESCAPE JAIL Then, between 4:32 a.m. and 5:20 a.m. the following morning, the suspect allegedly committed six more armed robberies in the Southeast and Northeast, police said.  Though spread out between Wed...

A man accused of kidnapping an Oregon woman and locking her in a makeshift cell made of cinder blocks was allegedly caught attempting to break out of his cell at the Jackson County Jail last week. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon said 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi attempted to break through the reinforced glass in his cell window at the jail. Zuberi was only able to damage the interior layer of the window, according to deputies. TRIAL DATE SET FOR OREGON MAN ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING, ASSAULTING WOMAN IN MAKESHIFT CELL At about 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, a maintenance worker at the jail alerted deputies that a suspicious noise was coming from inside one of the jail cells. Responding deputies discovered Zuberi reportedly standing on his bunk bed near a chipped window. The deputies detained the inmate, put him through the full-body scanner and relocated him to a cell with no exterior windows. JUDGE JUDY RULED IN FAVOR OF MAN NOW ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING, ASSAULTING WOMAN IN MAKESH...

Two suspects in Delaware were arrested for drug-related offenses after one was observed in the driver's seat of an idling car while "not fully conscious." Felton resident Jenny Fagan, 35, was arrested on Saturday, along with Frederica resident Antonio Malloy, 46.  Delaware State Police troopers found the suspects in an idling blue Dodge Caravan in Dover around 8:30 a.m. They noticed that the driver – who was identified as Fagan – was slumped over with a needle in her arm. "Troopers found the Caravan parked and running and contacted driver Jenny Fagan," Delaware State Police said in a statement. "Fagan was not fully conscious and had crack cocaine on her seat." DELAWARE MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR ROLE IN STREET FEUD THAT LED TO WOMAN'S DEATH, SHOOTING OF 6-YEAR-OLD Fagan – who had four active warrants for her arrest – exited the car to receive medical treatment. Malloy, a passenger, also left the car while police investigated. Authorities unc...

The Jacksonville, Florida , sheriff’s office released new video of gunman Ryan Christopher Palmeter entering a Dollar General store before opening fire and killing three Black Americans on Saturday. Palmeter, a White 21-year-old man opened fire at a Dollar General in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Jacksonville with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and a Glock handgun after 1 p.m. on Saturday, according to the sheriff’s office . During the incident, the shooter shot and killed 52-year-old Angela Michelle Carr, 19-year-old Anolt Joseph Laguerre Jr., and 29-year-old Jerrald De’Shawn Gallion. WHO IS THE ‘RACIALLY MOTIVATED’ DOLLAR GENERAL SHOOTER WHO KILLED 3 BLACK AMERICANS? Sheriff T.K. Waters identified the victims during a press conference on Sunday afternoon, while also releasing brief video clips of the shooter before the tragic event took place. "As you'll see from the video footage, the shooter outfitted himself with a tactical vest which he covered with a short sl...

A Louisiana taxi driver turned the tables on an armed man who allegedly tried to rob him early Monday morning. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said an unidentified taxi driver in Metairie was in his cab before 1 a.m. on Monday when a suspect armed with a handgun demanded money from the cabbie, NOLA.com reported. Metairie is located less than 10 miles west of New Orleans. GUN-TOTING DAD WHO THWARTED MASS SHOOTING DESPITE BEING SHOT IN HEAD NOW TRAINING OTHERS ON SELF-DEFENSE The cab driver had his own firearm and shot the suspect multiple times, police said. The suspect, later identified as 23-year-old Gerald Pope, was pronounced dead at the scene, NOLA.com reported. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Jason Rivarde said the cabbie is not facing charges and classified the fatal shooting as a justifiable homicide. ARMED LAS VEGAS WORKER STOPPED LIKELY MASS SHOOTER IN HIS TRACKS BUT RECEIVED LITTLE ATTENTION: EXPERT "The driver was presented with ...

Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh once bonded with a lifelong criminal behind bars who became his mentor. The claim was made in a new book by John Glatt, "Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege and the Murdaugh Family Murders." In it, the bestselling true-crime author explores the prestigious family’s rise to power and the double homicide that rocked a nation. An attorney for Murdaugh didn’t immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment about the book’s publication. The case was recently the subject of a true-crime documentary on Netflix , "Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal." ALEX MURDAUGH JUDGE SAYS HE 'FELT SORRY' FOR CONVICTED MURDERER "A lot of people did not want to talk on the record about things," Glatt told Fox News Digital. "The Murdaughs are known by everybody… in every other way. And a lot of people did not want to comment on what was going on. But I did manage to find some close friends of the Murdaughs. They opened...

GOP presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Saturday for much of his state, as a possible tropical storm brews in the Gulf of Mexico.  DeSantis issued an executive order with the emergency declaration for 33 counties in preparation for the storm currently known as Invest 93L, which is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm in the coming days.  The governor and the Florida Division of Emergency Management "are taking timely precautions to ensure Florida’s communities, infrastructure and resources are prepared, including those communities that are still recovering following Hurricane Ian," the governor's office said.  "I signed an Executive Order issuing a state of emergency out of an abundance of caution to ensure that the Florida Division of Emergency Management can begin staging resources and Floridians have plenty of time to prepare their families for a storm next week," DeSantis said in a statement. "...