NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A pair of messages that may have been sent by someone with knowledge of Nancy Guthrie’s suspected kidnapping from her Arizona home contain a series of clues about their author, according to retired Colorado investigator Lisa Miller, who said grammatical habits and sentence patterns suggest both notes were likely written by the same person — and could ultimately trigger the tip detectives have been waiting for.Guthrie is the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie. Authorities have said she was taken from her home in northern Tucson in the early hours of Feb. 1, after a masked intruder appeared on her front steps in recovered doorbell camera video.Making them public last month could do more than jog someone’s memory, Miller said. It could also put pressure on whoever wrote the notes, potentially prompting a misstep that exposes the author to someone in their own circle.”The bad guys can’t help but look over their shoulder and wonder, are they onto me? Are they coming? And that pressure creates behavioral leakage that we’re looking for and people around them might see.”NANCY GUTHRIE RANSOM NOTES RELEASE FOLLOWS UNABOMBER ‘PRECEDENT’ THAT CRACKED CASE, EXPERT SAYS But…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! More than a dozen Penn Staters are charged in connection with an alleged massive cocaine distribution ring as one of the alleged ringleaders, Agostino Abbatiello, 24, of Westbury, New York remains at large. Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Abbatiello is among 14 people who are facing charges related to the coke trafficking operation where students and two off-campus fraternities were allegedly involved.”In all, 13 defendants were Penn State University students at or around the time of the alleged conduct, in 2023 and 2024. The 14th defendant, the father of a student, is charged with tampering with evidence and hindering the investigation,” the Attorney General’s office said.SUSPECT ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY RUNNING METH LAB AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY’S LARGEST ACADEMIC BUILDING In the Monday announcement, the AG said suspects Abbatiello and Thomas Robinson were the main coke suppliers. They allegedly made regular trips to Philadelphia and New York to pick up “large quantities” of the illegal drug. Members of the Delta Upsilon and Sigma Chi fraternities allegedly cut and packaged the coke inside their frat houses off campus and distributed it to Penn State students, investigators said.📩 Send me a story idea: kelsie.cairns@fox.com📸…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal appeals court panel on Monday upheld an order that disqualified Sigal Chattah as the top federal prosecutor in Nevada, finding that the Justice Department could not keep her in charge through the appointment and delegation mechanisms it used after her interim term ended.A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judge’s ruling that Chattah ‌was not validly leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada.The ruling disqualifies Chattah from supervising the prosecutions in three criminal cases.Chattah, who served as Nevada’s Republican National Committee member before joining the U.S. Justice Department, was appointed interim U.S. attorney effective April 1, 2025, for a term of up to 120 days.TRUMP-FIRED US ATTORNEY LAUNCHES UNPRECEDENTED COURT FIGHT AFTER 54 MINUTES ON THE JOB As her tenure was about to expire in late July of that year, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi designated Chattah as first assistant U.S. attorney after Chattah resigned from the interim role shortly before the 120-day term expired. The Justice Department argued that the move allowed her to serve as acting U.S. attorney under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act while a permanent U.S. attorney had not been…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Missouri man called 911 after his girlfriend died at a motel, but investigators say a disturbing discovery soon turned the case into a homicide investigation.Nicholas Ayres, 35, is now charged with second-degree felony murder and first-degree domestic assault in the death of 37-year-old Destiny Dunn, according to Columbia Police and Boone County jail records.The investigation began around 3:22 p.m. on Aug. 12, when Ayres called 911 and told a dispatcher that Dunn was lying down, might have a heartbeat and appeared “red and blue,” according to a probable cause statement (PCS) reviewed by Fox News Digital.TEXAS DAD FACES MURDER CHARGE AFTER ESTRANGED WIFE FOUND DEAD AT SUBURBAN HOME: POLICE Ayres told the dispatcher the couple had gotten into an altercation while they were in the shower and claimed Dunn fell after he got out, the court document states.But as the dispatcher pressed him about Dunn’s condition, Ayres allegedly acknowledged they had been fighting and that she was bruised.”It looks like I f—ing beat her up and I promise to God I didn’t do it,” Ayres allegedly told the dispatcher, according to the PCS. The dispatcher then instructed him on performing chest…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Department of Justice launched an investigation on Monday into the College of William & Mary to determine whether certain scholarships and student benefits at the Virginia-based public research institution include unlawful race-based criteria, adding to the Trump administration’s targeting of educational institutions across the country.The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division announced it was opening a compliance review for the college’s potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.”Awarding scholarships or offering coveted opportunities to students based on the color of their skin is illegal and offends the guarantees of our color-blind Constitution,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said in a statement.”We will find out if scholarships or other student benefits at William & Mary favor applicants of certain races. The Department will not turn a blind eye to race-based preferences, however they are packaged or portrayed by universities,” she continued.DOJ OPENS PROBE INTO HARVARD’S FINANCIAL AID FOR ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AMERICAN STUDENTS The “W&M Scholars” program for first-year undergraduate students includes a scholarship that covers…

Despite the plethora of well-designed and innovatively engineered modern polymer-framed, striker-fired pistols out there, the seemingly timeless design of the model 1911 is as popular as ever. When gun makers like Springfield Armory broke into the category of double-stack magazine versions of the design, it seemed like a new dawn for the platform. The new Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy 3.5″ AOS pairs a full-size grip frame with a subcompact 3.5″ slide and barrel. Image: Carson McDaniel As a little background, the 1911 DS Prodigy was first launched back in 2022 and quickly became a success with not only competitors and enthusiasts, but even first-time buyers. Its combination of impressive pricing and being backed by the Springfield Armory lifetime warranty drew a lot of people to the double-stack 1911 design. And why not? The allure of the legendary pistol design in modern capacities and a more modern platform has an obvious draw. This means higher capacity-magazines, optics-ready and compensated models, etc. Springfield Armory has, with the Prodigy, made the double-stack 1911 platform more affordable and therefore has had much to do with the increased popularity and availability of the genre. The new Prodigy is a full-featured, 18-round double-stack 1911 that’s short…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! ESPN host and political commentator Stephen A. Smith targeted the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) for what he called a “personal hit job” against him in a lengthy rant during his show on Monday.Smith’s comments came after the NABJ gave him a “Thumbs Down” award at the group’s Saturday night gala in Atlanta over what it characterized as his repeated disparagement of prominent Black women.The sports host felt personally offended by the decision, calling out the moment as a spectacular lack of journalism from a journalism organization.STEPHEN A SMITH ADMITS BYRON DONALDS COULD MAKE HIM A REPUBLICAN, CALLS HIM ‘THE REAL DEAL’ “The reality is that it was a personal hit job,” Smith said. “We can sit up there and lollygag around and act like we don’t know any better. It was a personal hit job. Which, by the way, usually doesn’t phase me. I know you think something phases me, just because you see me commenting on it. No, I’m in this business. I have a platform. I can comment about anything I want to, and I will continue to do so.””That’s not what this is,” he added. “This is different. This…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The mysterious wounds found on one of the world’s oldest orcas have triggered an investigation in Spain and raised questions about whether someone took aim at the famed killer whale amid years of tense encounters between orcas and boats.Toñi, the oldest known Iberian orca, surfaced in the Strait of Gibraltar with multiple fresh marks across her dorsal fin and back that conservationists believe were caused by shotgun pellets. The injuries were not visible in photographs taken just weeks earlier.The orca, known as Toñi, was spotted this week with marks Spanish officials described as compatible with possible pellet shots, according to Spain’s Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO).CALIFORNIA TEEN FACES PRISON AFTER VIRAL VIDEO SHOWS HIM SQUARING UP, REPEATEDLY KICKING SEA LION IN THE FACE The ministry said it learned of Toñi’s injuries on Aug. 11, after receiving information from marine conservation group WeWhale, which operates in the area with government authorization.Officials opened preliminary investigative proceedings the next day to determine what happened and potentially identify those responsible.While Spanish authorities have stopped short of concluding that Toñi was shot, conservation groups WeWhale and Iberian Orca Guardians said their teams…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Virginia man found not guilty by reason of insanity in a 2019 killing fled the United States on a one-way flight to Tajikistan while on an approved 48-hour pass from a state mental health facility, according to court records.Abdulloi Toshpulodzoda left the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute (NVMHI) on July 6 for an authorized 48-hour pass. He was required to return two days later, but he never did, FOX 5 reported, citing court documents.Instead, Toshpulodzoda traveled to Washington Dulles International Airport and boarded a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul before continuing to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, court documents show.”The Acquittee failed to return to NVMHI on July 8, 2026, as required,” the filing states.ICE CALLS OUT ‘DEPRAVED FREAK’ ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT DEPORTED AFTER HEINOUS CRIME IN DEM-RUN STATE Toshpulodzoda was committed to the custody of the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in 2022 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of his landlord, Mohammad Hemmatian, according to FOX 5.His departure came shortly after a judge determined he remained mentally ill and needed inpatient treatment.”On June 29, 2026, this Court found that the Acquittee remained mentally ill…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jordyn Tyson’s start to his NFL career is not going according to plan.The New Orleans Saints receiver, who went in the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft, could miss the next two months after suffering a hamstring injury during training camp, according to NFL Network.The 22-year-old Arizona State product, whom the Saints took eighth overall back in April, suffered the injury during last Thursday’s joint practice with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Saints head coach Kellen Moore, who enters his second season leading the franchise, said one day later that the injury could force Tyson to be sidelined through the start of the season. Now, if the current timeline remains, Tyson is looking at potentially missing at least five games.There were also reports Tyson sought multiple opinions on his hamstring injury, leading to discourse on social media among football fans worried he would be missing more than just a few practices.VIKINGS FEAR WORST AS JAMAL ADAMS, FORMER ALL-PRO SAFETY, SUFFERS KNEE INJURY IN PRESEASON GAME: ‘NOT GOOD’A two-month timeline would mean a return near Week 6, where the Saints would travel to MetLife Stadium to face the New York Giants. Then, they travel…