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• Suspect in custody after shooting at Florida State University: AP

  17-04-2025 18:41 via kfor.com
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NEXSTAR/WFLA) – Multiple people are hospitalized and a suspect is reportedly in custody following an active shooter alert at Florida State University.The emergency notification system for FSU had not indicated whether a suspect had been apprehended as of 2 p.m., but law enforcement sources for CNN and the Associated Press indicated that at least one suspect had been taken into custody.A local hospital also confirmed that at least six people had been hospitalized, with on
  
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• Mexican tall ship strikes Brooklyn Bridge, snapping masts and killing 2 crew members

  18-05-2025 07:41 via kfor.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Mexican navy sailing ship on a global goodwill tour struck the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday, snapping its three masts, killing two crew members and leaving some sailors dangling from harnesses high in the air waiting for help.
  New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the 142-year-old bridge was spared major damage but at least 19 people aboard the ship needed medical treatment.
  Two of the four people who suffered serious injuries later died, Adams announced on socia
  
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• The FBI is investigating the explosion at a California fertility clinic as an act of terrorism

  18-05-2025 05:49 via kfor.com
  
  The person believed responsible for an attack targeting a Southern California fertility clinic Saturday posted rambling online writings before an explosion that investigators are treating as an act of terrorism, according to a law enforcement official.
  The suspect, who died in the explosion that tore through the clinic and rattled the upscale California city of Palm Springs, also attempted to record video or stream the attack, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss details of the a
  
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• Baby raccoon in Colorado revived with compressions

  18-05-2025 05:06 via kfor.com
  
  *Video shows a variety of animals on a trail camera.
  DENVER (KDVR) - A baby raccoon was brought back from near death after the newborn fell from a chimney and was separated from its family in Colorado.Last Sunday, Boulder Fire-Rescue said a neonate, or a newborn, baby raccoon fell from a flue shelf in a chimney to the bottom floor fireplace in a Boulder home.Jennie Whittle, an animal protection supervisor for the Boulder Police Department, returned the baby to the shelf, where the mother and oth
  
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• Journalism comes from behind to win the Preakness 2 weeks after finishing 2nd in the Kentucky Derby

  18-05-2025 02:20 via kfor.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Journalism jostled with horses down the stretch, shrugged off the contact, burst through the lane and came from behind to win the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes on Saturday.
  The odds-on favorite was bumped by Goal Oriented near the quarter pole, and it looked like another second-place finish was coming two weeks after being the runner-up to Sovereignty in the Kentucky Derby. Journalism instead ran right by Gosger to give trainer Michael McCarthy his second win in a
  
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• New Oklahoma virtual school option for struggling students

  18-05-2025 01:41 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A new statewide virtual school is officially in the works and it's designed with Oklahoma's most overlooked students in mind."Think about the teenage mom that has a kid and they're still in high school or think about the child that has sensory issues or emotional issues that they can't focus when they're in a classroom," said Former State Senator Clark Jolley, Board of Directors Co-Chair for ThrivePoint Academy of Oklahoma.The Statewide Charter School Board voted una
  
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• ACLU sues Nevada school district over graduation regalia policy

  18-05-2025 01:26 via kfor.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Although Nevada has a law that allows students to wear certain regalia on their caps and gowns at school graduation ceremonies, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a student, stating that the Las Vegas-area Clark County School District isn't following the law.“For the fourth year in a row, we are again hearing stories about CCSD schools enforcing unconstitutional restrictions on students’ decorating their caps and gowns at their
  
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• Severe weather leaves at least 27 dead, including 18 in Kentucky

  18-05-2025 01:01 via kfor.com
  
  LONDON, Ky. (AP) — At least 27 people have been killed by storms systems that swept across part of the U.S. Midwest and South, with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announcing Saturday that 18 of the deaths came in his state and 10 others were hospitalized in critical condition.
  A devastating tornado in Kentucky damaged homes, tossed vehicles and left many people homeless. Seventeen of the deaths were in Laurel County, located in the state's southeast, including Fire Department Maj. Roger Leslie
  
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• Student who was called racial slur on North Carolina school bus speaks out

  18-05-2025 00:42 via kfor.com
  
  CURRITUCK COUNTY, N.C. (WAVY) — The North Carolina girl who was on the receiving end of profanities and a racial slur, while on a Currituck County school bus Thursday said she was shocked by what the woman said to her.The incident, captured on a video obtained by Nexstar's WAVY, shows a woman, later identified by police as Samantha Spoor, 35, yelling at the girl, eighth-grade Moyock Middle School student Savannah Bailey.Savannah said the woman was told by her son that he had been kick
  
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• 4Warn Storm Team tracks severe storms moving across Oklahoma

  17-05-2025 23:34 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - The 4Warn Storm Team is keeping an eye on severe weather into the state over the weekend.According to KFOR Meteorologist Emily Sutton, there is a marginal risk of severe storms in the Oklahoma City metro on Saturday and a slight risk in southeastern parts of the state.The storms are expected to continue Sunday and Monday with all modes of severe weather possible.4Warn Storm Chaser Aric Dickson spots a brief spin-up near I-35 and Paul's Valley at around 5:15 p.m. Saturday.
  
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• Promoter’s Caution could add random layer of chaos in NASCAR All-Star Race

  17-05-2025 22:04 via kfor.com
  
  The fate of the NASCAR All-Star Race largely rests on the whims of Marcus Smith, who is giving few hints about how he’ll deploy a new “Promoter’s Caution.”It’s the latest goofy gimmick in an event defined by annual format changes designed to goose the competition in the name of fender-banging fireworks. At a randomly selected point Sunday night during the first 220 of 250 laps at North Wilkesboro Speedway, a yellow flag will fly and possibly wipe out a big lead whil
  
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• Missing Guthrie man found dead in single-vehicle crash

  17-05-2025 21:25 via kfor.com
  
  LOGAN COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) — A Guthrie man who was reported missing earlier this week by the Logan County Sheriff's Office has been identified in a deadly single-vehicle crash that happened on Wednesday.According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 44-year-old Brandon Millikan of Guthrie was driving his 2004 Jeep south at the intersection of Douglas Boulevard and County Road 74 in Guthrie on Wednesday when the vehicle left the road and overturned before coming to a stop in a creek.Millikan was
  
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• Trump berates Walmart over price hikes: ‘EAT THE TARIFFS’

  17-05-2025 19:27 via kfor.com
  
  President Trump on Saturday lambasted Walmart over its decision to raise prices this week due to the high costs associated with the Trump administration's trade war. “Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain,” the president wrote on Truth Social. "Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected.""Between Walmart and China they should, as is said, ‘EAT THE TARIFFS,’ and not charge valued
  
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• Severe weather leaves at least 23 dead, including 14 in storm-battered Kentucky

  17-05-2025 19:14 via kfor.com
  
  LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Storm systems sweeping across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado crumbled buildings and flipped over a car on an interstate.In Kentucky, some 14 people were killed by severe weather, and the death toll is likely to rise, according to Gov. Andy Beshear. Local authorities in Laurel County, in the state's southeast, said nine people were killed after a tornado touch
  
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• Iran says it will continue nuclear talks with the US, shrugging off Trump's threats

  17-05-2025 18:54 via kfor.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president said his country will continue talks with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program but will not withdraw from its rights because of U.S. threats.
  “We are negotiating, and we will negotiate , we are not after war but we do not fear any threat," President Masoud Pezeshkian said during a speech to navy officials broadcast by state television Saturday.“It is not like that they think if they threaten us , we will give up
  
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• Donations pour in to Tennessee food pantry after TikTok star's call to action

  17-05-2025 18:05 via kfor.com
  
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Local Knoxville, Tennessee, nonprofit Knox Pride posted on social media Wednesday that their Community and Resource Center's food pantry was practically empty. With no access to funding and funding being cut, the organization was at a loss for what to do."We have always been very transparent here with the community and we were out of just about everything. We needed help real bad," said James Owens, a manager of Knox Pride’s Community Closet.Until one influe
  
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• Trump’s firing of FEMA director unsettles GOP senators

  17-05-2025 16:27 via kfor.com
  
  (The Hill) -- Senate Republicans are unsettled by the Trump administration’s decision to fire Cameron Hamilton, the acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), for speaking out against Trump’s plan to shutter the agency.Hamilton testified to lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee earlier this month that closing FEMA would not be in the best interest of the American people. The next day, he was escorted out of FEMA’s headquarters after losing his
  
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• Wrestling legend Jim Ross diagnosed with cancer

  17-05-2025 13:55 via kfor.com
  
  (WTRF) – Wrestling legend Jim Ross, perhaps best known for his tenure as a play-by-play commentator with WWE, has been diagnosed with cancer, he revealed Thursday on social media.
  "Diagnosed this week with colon cancer," Ross simply wrote in the post. "Surgery being scheduled in the next week or two. I appreciate your concern and support."Jim Ross attends SiriusXM's "Busted Open" on the eve of WrestleMania 35, on April 6, 2019, in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for SiriusXM)Ros
  
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• Thousands of gallons of ice cream, frozen yogurt recalled over possible plastic contamination

  17-05-2025 13:41 via kfor.com
  
  (KTLA) — Wells Enterprises, Inc., the maker of Blue Bunny and other ice cream brands, has issued a voluntary recall of 19 varieties of its 3-gallon ice cream tubs due to the possible presence of plastic material in the products.The recall, initiated on April 25, affects more than 103 distribution centers across the United States. While no injuries or adverse health effects have been reported, the Food and Drug Administration classified the recall as Class II, meaning the products may cause
  
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• PHOTOS: Winds, hail around St. Louis after fatal storms

  17-05-2025 13:40 via kfor.com
  
  ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) — Friday brought a round of severe weather to Missouri's St. Louis region, with extreme winds, hail, and a potential tornado. At least four people were killed in the storms, St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer says.Viewers of Nexstar's KTVI have sent in photos of damage recorded so far. From uprooted trees, roof damages, and more, the storm has been brief but intense.Possible Tornado Photo from Lindy Schoenberger at Saint Louis SLU HospitalDamage near Pershing and Big Bend.
  
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• Is this the tornado that hit St. Louis?

  17-05-2025 13:40 via kfor.com
  
  ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVI) — A tornado likely rolled through the City of St. Louis, Missouri on Friday afternoon, based on FOX 2 radar indications and preliminary analysis from the National Weather Service.New video appears to show what FOX 2 meteorologists believe to be the radar-detected tornado that moved through the city Friday afternoon.Video footage, shared with FOX 2 by Sean Malone of KMOX News via Storyful, shows dark, churning clouds and an apparent funnel shape visible just beyond sev
  
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• Multiple tenants at apartment complain about mold problem

  17-05-2025 13:30 via kfor.com
  
  DEL CITY, Okla. (KFOR) — News 4 has received several complaints from Oklahomans regarding their apartments being overrun with mold.They say management with the Heights on Forty4 has made temporary fixes, which have only been making it matters worse.That is why they turned to News 4 for help."When we went up there, they had freshly painted everywhere around, and they said it was a no mold and no flooding going on," said Wenoka Williams, a tenant.Williams had believed them when she was told
  
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• Gordon has strained hamstring and availability for Game 7 at OKC is in doubt, AP source says

  17-05-2025 13:26 via kfor.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon has a strained left hamstring and his availability is in doubt for Game 7 against the Thunder in Oklahoma City on Sunday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
  The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Friday night because the extent of the injury has not yet been announced. Gordon clutched his hamstring late in Denver's 119-107 win over the Thunder on Thursday to tie their second-round series.
  The
  
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• One person dead in I-240 auto-pedestrian accident

  17-05-2025 13:24 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY(KFOR) - Oklahoma Highway Patrol responded to a fatal auto-pedestrian accident at W I-240 and S Western Ave Saturday morning.OHP confirmed one female was struck and killed by a vehicle near S Walker Ave exit 2B.Vehicle information is currently unknown.A medical examiner arrived at the scene shortly after.Oklahoma City Police Department was also on the scene to assist with traffic control.The scene of the accident is under further investigation.KFOR will update as more information ar
  
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• Oklahoma law sees changes for using weapons to protect property

  17-05-2025 13:15 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — An Oklahoma law now makes it legally clear you can point or intimidate an individual with a weapon if you are defending your home, private property, or business.Governor Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 2818 on Thursday, which went into effect immediately. Oklahoma already has "stand your ground" laws when it comes to protecting your life, but language in the bill now expands to your property as well.HB2818-ENRDownload"What this bill does is provide some clarity fo
  
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• Severe Weather Weekend Begins Today

  17-05-2025 13:07 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – A quiet start to the day with a mix of sun and clouds, but the threat for severe weather ramps up this afternoon.Clouds will increase through the day as a warm front lifts across the region, bringing the potential for widely scattered severe storms by late afternoon.Storms are expected to weaken overnight, with quieter conditions by Sunday morning.Sunday begins much like today, partly cloudy, but another round of scattered strong to severe storms is possible by the a
  
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• Trump prepares to step into messy fight over GOP tax bill

  17-05-2025 12:00 via kfor.com
  
  President Trump is returning from a Middle East trip where he was feted by foreign leaders to find his legislative agenda on shaky ground on Capitol Hill.Republican lawmakers are squabbling over the details of the massive reconciliation package that contains key pieces of Trump’s agenda on taxes, border funding and spending.On Friday, four conservative lawmakers tanked a key committee vote, stalling the legislation and leaving a slew of the president’s campaign promises in limbo.Whit
  
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• Supt. Walters upset after lawmakers reject several of OSDE's budget requests

  17-05-2025 01:46 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Superintendent Ryan Walters called the media late Thursday for a Friday morning press conference after lawmakers rejected several of his budget requests.The agreed-upon budget from lawmakers this week had the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) realize they wouldn't get $3 million for "Bibles in every classroom" and $500,000 for concealed carry training, among other requests.
  Walters' media gathering had him calling out the proposed income tax cut, but when
  
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• Former federal agents turned beekeepers protecting bees with friendly competition

  17-05-2025 01:25 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - A swarm of bees usually isn’t a sight anyone wants to see, especially in or around their home. Two former federal agents turned beekeepers in Oklahoma City said they’re always buzzing to help remove them safely."I think our issue is don't kill bees,” Beekeeper Mike Favors said.It’s a simple message, and when a swarm is just hanging out on a fence, like they were Wednesday, Favors said they’re generally not a problem."You shouldn't be scared of
  
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• Local nonprofit, company team up to build beds for OKC children

  17-05-2025 01:20 via kfor.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - It's where you start your day and end your day, however you may be taking your bed for granted. Hundreds of children across Oklahoma City don't have one. A local nonprofit and company are working to change that."They could be sleeping on the floor on a pallet of clothes, they could be co-sleeping with family members, or sleeping on the couch because they don't have a bed," said Rich Moio, the OKC Chapter President of Sleep In Heavenly Peace. LOCAL NEWS: New initiative to a
  
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