Police search for gunman who killed five at Washington state mall
(Note: paragraph six contains language that may be offensive to readers)By Matt Mills McKnightBURLINGTON, Wash. (Reuters) - A manhunt was underway on Saturday in northwest Washington state for a gunman...
View ArticleObama says new black history museum tells story of America
By Ayesha RascoeWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday expressed hope that a new national museum showcasing the triumphs and tragedies of the African American experience will help to...
View ArticleBlack man shot dead by police in Oklahoma remembered in music-filled service
By Kurt SteissTULSA, Okla. (Reuters) - An unarmed black man shot and killed by a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was remembered at a funeral service on Saturday as a father of four with a good...
View ArticleEight, including toddler, hurt in Baltimore shooting
(Reuters) - Eight people, including a three-year-old girl, were hurt in a shooting that Baltimore police called an act of "retaliatory violence" on Saturday night, authorities said.A spokesman of the...
View ArticleReport: Steven Avery Engaged
WAUPUN, WI (WTAQ) - A magazine report says Steven Avery has found love and is getting married.The report from People Magazine says wedding bells are in the future for Avery and a Las Vegas-based legal...
View ArticleCanadian diplomat's son in deadly Florida shooting deported home
TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian diplomat’s teenage son has been deported from the United States following his involvement in a fatal drug-related shooting, effectively nullifying the house arrest and...
View ArticleFBI report expected to show violent crime rise in some U.S. cities
By Julia HarteWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Violent crime in certain big U.S. cities in 2015 likely increased over 2014, although the overall crime rate has remained far below peak levels of the early 1990s,...
View ArticleObama avoids pipeline comment but urges tribal sovereignty
By Valerie Volcovici and Julia HarteWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday avoided direct mention of a pipeline that has provoked high-profile protests from Native Americans but...
View ArticleHouston lawyer shoots nine, is killed by police
By Terry WadeHOUSTON (Reuters) - A Houston lawyer whose business was struggling opened fire on morning commuters on Monday, injuring at least nine people before being shot dead by police, authorities...
View ArticleCoast Guard will not reopen search for missing woman after son found
BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard will not reopen a search for a 54-year-old woman whose fishing boat sank last week, despite the discovery of her son alive on a life raft a week after the...
View ArticleWashington Monument closed indefinitely for elevator system overhaul
By Laila Kearney(Reuters) - The Washington Monument will remain closed to visitors until technicians can overhaul its elevator system after a series of breakdowns at one of the U.S. capital's most...
View ArticleSurfing spaniels hit the waves in California
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) - More than 60 dogs gave cats a rest and instead chased waves during the eighth annual Surf City Surf Dog competition at Huntington Beach near Los Angeles.Dogs and their owners...
View ArticleU.S. awards $20 million for body cameras to 106 police departments
By David IngramNEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 100 U.S. police departments and law enforcement agencies will receive $20 million to help buy body cameras, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday, in...
View ArticleWashington state mall shooter had no militant contact: source
By Tom JamesMOUNT VERNON, Wash. (Reuters) - There is no evidence showing that a man charged with five counts of first-degree murder after confessing to a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in...
View ArticleThree Mississippi River locks may close due to flood: Army Corps
(Reuters) - Flooding on the Mississippi River is likely to close three locks on the grain shipping waterway from southern Iowa to northern Missouri later this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
View ArticleCedar Rapids, Iowa, braces for flooding as river expected to crest
(Reuters) - Emergency crews have erected nearly 10 miles (16 km) of temporary flood barricades and laid a quarter-million sandbags in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as residents braced on Monday for what could be...
View ArticleJury selection begins in U.S. case against church shooter
By Harriet McLeodCHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Several hundred people reported to the U.S. courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday for the start of jury selection in the death penalty case...
View ArticleCalifornia man convicted as would-be Islamic State recruit gets 30 years
By Steve GormanLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A would-be Islamic State recruit from California was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison for his conviction on charges he sought to join the militant group...
View ArticleNew Jersey's Atlantic City water utility to buy old airstrip for $100 million
By Elinor ComlayATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Reuters) - Atlantic City, New Jersey's fiscally distressed gambling hub, stands to gain $100 million by selling a defunct municipal airstrip to the city's...
View Article'Bridgegate' witness says Christie campaign manager knew of plot
By Joseph AxNEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - The one-line email to David Wildstein, an executive at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, arrived at 7:35 a.m. on Aug. 13, 2013."Time for some traffic...
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