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News Summary: Storm drags down airlines' grades

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 11th

By By The Associated Press DELAYED: Only 80.2 percent of flights operated by U.S. airlines arrived on time during October, down from 85.5 percent in October 2011, according to the federal government. GROUNDED: Superstorm Sandy, which battered the Northeast in late October, was blamed for more

Boustany trounces Landry for La congressional seat

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By MELINDA DESLATTEAssociated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana Congressman Charles Boustany, a veteran Republican allied with House Speaker John Boehner, has trounced freshman GOP incumbent Jeff Landry in an attack-heavy runoff race. The two incumbents were forced into the same

Boustany defeats Landry for La. congressional seat

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

By By MELINDA DESLATTEAssociated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana congressman Charles Boustany won a fifth term on Saturday by handily defeating his fellow Republican incumbent, Jeff Landry, in a runoff election. The two men were forced into the same district when Louisiana lost a

Boustany defeats Landry for La. congressional seat

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

FBI says Alaska man killed people for fun

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

By By MARK THIESSENAssociated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Confessed serial killer Israel Keyes admitted he enjoyed killing people, but couldn't or wouldn't give investigators a more meaningful answer when quizzed why he did it. "There were just times, a couple of times, where we

Police Arrest 3 And Seize 64 Pounds Of Marijuana

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) - Authorities in southwest Idaho say three men were arrested and 64 pounds of marijuana seized after a traffic stop earlier this week. Idaho State Police say the three men were apprehended near Caldwell and are being held in the Canyon County Jail on felony

Pearl Harbor survivor helps identify unknown dead

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By AUDREY McAVOYAssociated Press HONOLULU (AP) - Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. And so he set out to restore names to the dead. Emory, a survivor of the attack, doggedly

Officials: Human error caused Atlanta gas leak

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By JEFF MARTINAssociated Press ATLANTA (AP) - Carbon monoxide detectors will be placed in an Atlanta elementary school where dozens of students were sickened after two workers failed to reopen a boiler valve. Associate superintendent Steve Smith says Georgia law does not require the

Wife accused in Mo. sex slave case pleads guilty

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By BILL DRAPERAssociated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A woman accused with her husband of forcing a teenage girl to be a sex slave for years in their mobile home pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal conspiracy charge in a deal contingent on her being sentenced to probation. Marilyn Bagley,

Houston-area town's mayor for 63 years dead at 92

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

RICHMOND, Texas (AP) - Hilmar Moore, who has been mayor of the Southeast Texas town of Richmond since 1949, has died at age 92. Moore died Tuesday night after a lengthy illness, his wife, Evelyn Moore, said Wednesday. Hilmar Moore was the nation's longest-serving mayor of uninterrupted tenure,