Florida sheriff’s deputies confronted chaos as they tried to subdue an attacker biting a victim’s face after stabbing and beating a couple to death in a random assault outside their home, recordings of radio transmissions released Tuesday show. When a dispatcher asks the first Martin County deputy on the scene… Read More

A Hawaii woman has won more than $10 million playing the penny slots in Las Vegas. The Wynn Las Vegas said the unidentified woman from Oahu won a total payout of $10,777,270.51 after betting $3 on a penny slot machine. The jackpot happened about 9 p.m. Sunday at the Strip… Read More

Police are searching for a man who bit off a bartender’s finger after being kicked out of a San Francisco bar at closing time. Officer Carlos Manfredi said Monday that the suspect had been drinking at the bar in the Marina District on July 17 and tried to go back… Read More

Traffic fatalities were up 9 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the same period last year, continuing a surge in deaths that began two years ago as the economy improved and travel picked up, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday by the National Safety Council…. Read More

Less than 24 hours after the close of the Rio Olympics, Ryan Lochte took a major financial hit Monday for a drunken incident he initially tried to pass off as an armed robbery. In quick succession, four sponsors announced they were dumping the swimmer, who has since apologized and conceded… Read More

About 30 people have paid their respects to a woman they never met after responding to a call for attendees for a suburban New York funeral at which no one was expected to show up. The Journal News reports the strangers served as Francine Stein’s pallbearers and also helped bury… Read More

Authorities say an “elderly man” found at a Massachusetts home actually was a 31-year-old fugitive wearing a disguise. Police went to a house on Cape Cod Thursday looking for Shaun Miller, who’d been a fugitive since April when he and several others were indicted on heroin distribution charges. Police say… Read More

Montana wildlife officials indefinitely closed a 183-mile stretch of the Yellowstone River and hundreds of miles of other waterways Friday, barring all fishing, rafting and other activities to prevent the spread of a parasite believed to have killed tens of thousands of fish. Fishing guides and rafting operators who run… Read More

Guitarist Matt Roberts, a founding member of the rock band 3 Doors Down, has died in Wisconsin. The 38-year-old was in West Bend to perform at a benefit. The West Bend Police Department says someone called authorities around 7 a.m. Saturday to report an unconscious man in a hotel hallway…. Read More

Authorities say a drunken driving suspect upset that his vehicle was still impounded a week after his arrest threw pizza and punches at a Pennsylvania police station. Police in the tiny borough of Dallas say 44-year-old Sean Mulloy showed up Thursday and began wrapping a chain around the railing outside… Read More