Jim Bakker, PTL televangelist convicted of fraud, dies at 86
Lori Bakker announced the death on Oct. 5 without disclosing a cause; the PTL Club once drew as many as 13 million nightly viewers.
Politics
Christa Pike is conscious as lawyers seek execution records
Her attorneys want Tennessee to preserve drug lot numbers and records from the execution attempt.
The Numbers
AllOfficial series, each dated to the observation it comes from.
Inflation3.4%
Unemployment4.2%
30-year mortgage7.28%
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Japan protests to Washington after Marine arrested in Okinawa killing
Prosecutors in Naha began examining the case on Monday and have weeks to decide whether to charge Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20.
Dennis Hastert, longest-serving Republican House speaker, dies at 84
Hastert pleaded guilty in 2015 to concealing hush-money payments to a man he abused as a teenager and served 13 months in prison.
Politics
4 stories · updated 2 OctJudge sets $10,000 bond for Nathalie Belizaire in neglect case
North Miami Beach police say the four children, including a 2-month-old, were found hiding in a bathroom while Belizaire sailed to the Bahamas.
Prosecutors seek $100,000 bond for Sinema's ex-bodyguard
Ammel refused to leave jail for Thursday's arraignment, and a judge ordered him brought to the Oct. 15 hearing by force if necessary.
Tennessee halts executions after Christa Pike survives two doses
Pike was still audibly snoring when witnesses were escorted out at 8:53 p.m., and Tennessee's protocol sets out no step after the second dose.
Milwaukee prosecutors charge Robbiel Stokes, 15, in classmate's killing
The complaint says Stokes's mother identified him in bus surveillance stills, and police found a matching .40-caliber cartridge in her car.
World
2 stories · updated 5 Oct
Latitude Air Ambulance says six aboard missing jet presumed dead
Four Canadian crew and two Bermudian passengers were aboard the Gulfstream G100, which fell from 24,000 feet before vanishing off Nantucket.
New Mexico county lifts four of five McLeod Dam evacuations
Dam operators reported imminent failure of the 25-foot earthen structure, which a 2023 inspection rated in poor condition with no emergency action plan.
Business
6 stories · updated 6 SepArthur Lundeen charged after being duct-taped on American Airlines flight
The flight from Dallas to Newark diverted to Baltimore, where police arrested Lundeen, 67, and his Tucson brokerage later cut ties with him.
Entertainment
6 stories · updated 4 Oct
Health
3 stories · updated 2 OctJudge finds probable cause in federal case against Oxford vape clerks
Investigators seized more than 500 units of kratom products at Puffs Vape, where bank records show one student shopped the day before he died.
Investigators recover kratom at both Ole Miss death scenes
Aidan Hamilton, 18, died in a campus dorm and Robert Strang, 20, at an off-campus house; the cases are being investigated separately.
Coast Guard hoists hypothermic hiker Craig Berg off Isle Royale
Backpackers spotted Berg on an island where overnight lows hit 48 degrees, and troopers and K-9 teams reached him on foot.