U.S. Navy investigator sentenced to 12 years in bribery case
(Reuters) - A former Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agent was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in federal prison for leaking information to a defense contractor in exchange for cash, luxury...
View ArticleWildfire burns 22 homes in Nevada
(Reuters) - A wildfire fanned by high winds destroyed 22 homes in a wooded area of northern Nevada on Friday, among them a mountain property belonging to the owner of a famous brothel in the...
View ArticleGunmen kidnap U.S. aid worker in Niger, take him towards Mali: mayor
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Gunmen raided the house of a U.S. aid worker in central Niger overnight, killing his two guards before driving him off across the desert towards Mali, the mayor of the town said on...
View ArticleTrump GB Event Time Pushed Back
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has changed his plans to campaign in Green Bay on Monday.According to his website, Trump's appearance at the KI Convention Center is...
View ArticleFeingold, Johnson Debate in Green Bay
GREEN BAY, WI (Wisconsin Radio Network) - Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate candidates debated for the first time Friday night in Green Bay.Incumbent Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Russ Feingold answered...
View ArticleFour killed after truck flies off San Diego bridge onto festival below
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Four people were killed on Saturday when a pickup truck hurtled off San Diego's Coronado Bridge, plummeting some 60 feet (18 m)and crashing onto a park where hundreds of people...
View ArticleAfter turbulent week, Trump revisits talk of 'rigged election'
By Steve HollandPORTSMOUTH, N.H. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, fighting to overcome setbacks and polls showing a tough path to the White House, on Saturday doubled down...
View ArticleLocal Soldiers Ready for Deployment
APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - A send-off ceremony was held Saturday for a group of Fox Valley-based Army Reserve soldiers who are deploying to Afghanistan.For some, like Joshua Dubois, this will be his...
View ArticleRepublican office in North Carolina hit with flammable material: authorities
(Reuters) - The local Republican Party headquarters in Orange County, North Carolina, was struck overnight with a flammable material thrown through a front window of the building, local authorities...
View ArticleNorth Carolina estimates $1.5 billion in hurricane damage to buildings
(Reuters) - North Carolina emergency officials have estimated that the destructive and deadly Hurricane Matthew caused $1.5 billion worth of damage to more than 100,000 homes, businesses and government...
View ArticleVirginia trial set to begin over debunked Rolling Stone rape story
(Reuters) - A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine over its debunked story of a University of Virginia gang rape is set to start in federal court on Monday.University administrator Nicole...
View ArticleTestimony to begin in lawsuit related to Penn State molestation scandal
By David DeKokHARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Testimony is to begin on Monday in a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former Penn State assistant football coach who says the university fired him after...
View ArticleThree charged after shooting death of sprinter Tyson Gay's daughter
(Reuters) - Authorities in Kentucky have charged three men, including a father and son, in connection with the shooting death of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay's 15-year-old daughter outside a restaurant...
View ArticleTurkish gold trader loses bid to dismiss U.S. sanctions case
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday rejected a Turkish gold trader's bid to dismiss an indictment accusing him of conspiring to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars in...
View ArticleFergus Falls man sails Red River, sets record in pumpkin
Oslo, Minn. (KFGO) - Rick Swenson has broken a world record.Swenson, of Fergus Falls, sailed 25.6 miles on the Red River, from Grand Forks, North Dakota to Oslo, Minnesota, in a giant pumpkin...
View ArticleFlorida man gets 20 years in attempted murder of George Zimmerman
(Reuters) - A Florida man was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday, media reports said, for shooting at George Zimmerman, who had shot and killed the unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012...
View ArticleMemorial for deadly Rhode Island nightclub fire hits $2 million goal
BOSTON (Reuters) - The organization planning a park to commemorate the death of 100 people in a deadly fire at a Rhode Island nightclub in 2003 said on Monday that it had reached its $2 million...
View ArticleU.S. motor travel increased 3.4 percent in August: DOT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorists logged 284.9 billion miles on U.S. roads in August, the most ever for the month and a 3.4 percent increase over the previous year, according to data released on Monday by...
View ArticleNew Jersey 'Bridgegate' defendant says he was duped
By Joseph AxNEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - After days of complaints about traffic jams at a major New York bridge in 2013, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's associate demanded to know if lane closures...
View ArticleMismanagement cost NY pension $3.8 billion over eight years: regulator
By Suzanne Barlyn and Svea Herbst-Bayliss(Reuters) - Bets on expensive but poorly performing hedge funds have cost pensioners in New York $3.8 billion in the last eight years, according to a report...
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