A shooting in California at a store selling costumes and decor on the eve of Halloween has left one person dead and six injured, police said. Gunfire rang out inside Spirit Halloween, a store at the Solano Town Center in Fairfield late Friday, the Fairfield Police Department said in a statement posted on social media….
Apple’s first foldable iPhone went on sale on Oct. 23, and some new owners report that their devices are already broken. Within days of the new iPhone Duo hitting stores, photos and videos of cracked screens began popping up online. Consumers said the device’s inner screen broke down the middle near the hinge where the…
Americans are on track to spend a record $13.5 billion on Halloween this year amid rising costs associated with the national scarefest, according to the National Retail Federation. Consumers are forecast to shell out $4.1 billion on candy alone. Cocoa costs remain elevated despite surging over the last two years, with shipping and other expenses…
On the streets of Schenectady, New York, Ron Ladouceur is “ghost hunting” in broad daylight, alongside an old brick wall. “We’ve got a couple of letters we can make out here, right?” he said. “There’s the word ‘service,’ that’s pretty clear. The brand name was here. This was probably an auto service center of some…
Norfolk, Virginia — L. Louise Lucas, a powerful Virginia state senator and vocal Trump critic who played a central role in the state’s redistricting effort last year, has been arrested in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme, a Justice Department spokesperson said Thursday. According to a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District…
Amazon said on Tuesday that it plans to hire 300,000 seasonal, part-time and full-time workers across the U.S. this holiday season, up 20% from the same period last year. Holiday retail sales this year are expected to top $1 trillion for the first time, according to a forecast from the National Retail Federation. In September,…
Major French supermarket chains on Monday said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security. Top retailers E. Leclerc, Intermarché and Cooperative U confirmed to AFP they suffered a cyberattack that…
Train robberies may be a relic of the Old West, but cargo theft is still a big business — and consumers end up paying the price. The Department of Homeland Security estimates cargo theft costs the U.S. between $15 billion to $35 billion a year. In 2025, the FBI says, reported cargo theft losses in…
Thieves stole about 30,000 bottles of some of Italy’s most prized wines worth an estimated $5.8 million from a winery in Tuscany, in what the producer described Friday as the country’s largest wine theft on record. The theft targeted Marchesi Antinori’s facility near Cortona, in the province of Arezzo, where a group of at least…
Security forces in Mexico have arrested an alleged leader of a notorious cartel who is accused by the U.S. of drug trafficking and a large-scale fuel smuggling operation, authorities said Tuesday. Ivan Cazarin Molina (a.k.a. “El Tanque”—meaning “The Tank”), was captured on Monday in the town of Zapopan in Jalisco state, security minister Omar Garcia…
