Aircraft Hijacking

Escaped hijacker and killer George Wright wins his bid to remain in Portugal. A court in Portugal has rejected the U.S.' request to extradite him....

American fugitive George Wright has been freed by a Portugese court after it refused a U.S. request to extradite the convicted murderer to complete his 15- to 30-year sentence for the shooting death of a gas station employee during a robbery the day after...

The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has inspired a host of TV tributes, reminiscences and investigations. Here is a guide to some of the 9/11-related programs airing between now and Sept. 11, 2011: “Fox News Special”....

Retired Lt. Colonel Ryan Yantis will never forget Sept. 11. The resident of Kief’s Reef in unincorporated McHenry County was working at the Pentagon in …...

The family of Mark Bavis, one of two Kings scouts killed when United Flight 175 was hijacked and crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, issued a statement Wednesday on its decision to accept a settlement and......

In Friday's episode, we go behind the text and photos of two compelling Los Angeles Times stories this week. On July 15, The Times exposed that in one of the poorest cities in Los Angeles County, city officials were receiving......

In August 2001 Orlando-based immigration officer Jose Melendez-Perez used his decades of experience and training and did his job: concluding that Saudi traveler Mohamed al-Qahtani might be a bad guy, and turned him away from entering the United States....

Two people were killed and three injured Thursday morning when a pickup truck believed hijacked in Imperial Beach collided with other vehicles along the Silver Strand in Coronado during a high-speed pursuit by a sheriff's patrol car, the San Diego......

So, where was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week? Standing up journalists and canceling other appointments, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disappeared from the press' radar for about 14 hours Monday, sparking a brush-fire of...

Scores of residents in the tough Tepito neighborhood of downtown Mexico City clashed with riot police Tuesday night in a chaotic brawl sparked by unconfirmed reports of child kidnappings. The crowds, mostly young men and boys, many with their faces...

Officials were preparing Thursday afternoon to release an American Airlines flight that had been grounded at San Francisco International Airport after local police received a call threatening a hijacking, federal authorities said. Investigators determined...

There may be no place in the earth for Tamerlan Tsarnaev. One of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has been dead more than two weeks after a dramatic showdown with police in Watertown, Mass., on April 19. But officials and his family still don't...