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Highlights of this day in history (Oct 10): Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns; Imperial rule ends in China; Achille Lauro hijackers forced to land; Movie legend Orson Welles dies; Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi born; Actor Christopher Reeve dies.

News for Monday, October 10: Second Presidential debate; Hurricane aftermath in North Carolina; Missiles fired near U.S. navy ship in Red Sea; U.S.-Philippines joint military exercise.
 

A deadly vortex, drowned mole people, and a serial killer gone mad... Dark5 presents the top 5 most shocking tales to ever come out of hurricanes hitting the US.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- How ironic that the parents of 9-year-old Jose Angel Barrios would learn well after the fact that thick grey-colored packing tape affixed to keep windows from breaking during Friday's crush of Hurricane Matthew -- would continue to hold the glass in place three days later as he lay lifeless on his bed in the family's home at 113 Mason Park Drive, the result of acute carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator in another room being used because the electricity had not yet been restored, Daytona Beach cops said.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- He was once an AT&T outdoor tech himself who "retired" or so he claimed in his failed campaign in the August primary for Volusia County chair. And so Greg Gimbert in a social media treatise to linemen, has nothing but admonition and disdain for utility cutomers he dismisses as "eaters" who have been without electricity since Hurricane Matthew's wrath six days ago.

Highlights of this day in history: Cornerstone laid for what becomes the White House; Britain's Margaret Thatcher born; Boston wins baseball's first World Series; TV variety show host Ed Sullivan dies; Musician Paul Simon born (Oct. 13).

Highlights of this day in history: Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier; Britain's Battle of Hastings takes place; Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize; Former President Theodore Roosevelt shot; Singer Bing Crosby dies (Oct. 14).

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- A federal court judge has ordered the voter registration deadline to be extended through Tuesday.

DELAND, Fla. -- Hundreds of students and their parents participated in International Walk/ Bike to School Day on Oct. 5, two days before Hurricane Matthew.