Low-cost carrier Skybus Airlines said Friday that it was ceasing operations on Saturday, calling itself a victim of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment.
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Low-cost carrier Skybus Airlines said Friday that it was ceasing operations on Saturday, calling itself a victim of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment.

Police investigating a series of shootings on a stretch of mountain highway in central Virginia executed a search warrant on a home early Friday, a state police spokeswoman said.

Weather permitting, Canada's annual seal hunt will start Friday — this year with a rule requiring hunters to be more humane. But animal-rights activists say the rule just adds "bleeding to the killing process."

The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage had recently "become erratic" after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday.
