Ohio man gets 20 years prison for Islamic State-linked attack plot
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - A southwest Ohio man who admitted to having plotted to execute a U.S. military base employee and then attack a local police station in support of Islamic State was...
View ArticleOlder, poorer U.S. men less likely to read books: survey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Older men earning less than $30,000 a year are most likely to be among the 26 percent of American adults who say they do not read books, a Pew Research Center survey released on...
View ArticleHacker who highlighted notorious Ohio rape case pleads guilty
By Joseph Ax(Reuters) - A Kentucky computer hacker pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to break into a website to draw attention to a notorious rape case in Steubenville, Ohio, as well as to his...
View ArticleNo drugs, alcohol in driver in Tennessee school bus crash; death toll hits six
(Reuters) - No drugs or alcohol were found in the system of the man accused of vehicular homicide in the crash of a Tennessee elementary school bus that killed six children and critically injured...
View ArticleJudge Orders More Avery DNA Testing
UNDATED (WTAQ) - A judge has ordered additional scientific testing in the ongoing appeal for convicted murderer Steven Avery.Online court records show that the judge granted a request for additional...
View ArticleU.S. Powerball lottery players eye $359 million prize
By Rory CarrollSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lottery players checked their Powerball tickets after numbers were drawn on Wednesday for one of the biggest jackpots - $359 million - in U.S. history that grew...
View ArticleSixth child dies as result of deadly Tennessee school bus crash
(Reuters) - Another child has died as a result of a school bus crash earlier this week in Tennessee, police said on Wednesday, raising the total killed to six.Chattanooga Police announced the death in...
View ArticleFour bodies found in California mobile home fire
By Rory CarrollSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The bodies of two males and two females were discovered after firefighters put out a blaze at a mobile home in Modesto, California, police said on Wednesday.A...
View ArticleU.S. Chemical Safety Board to probe Exxon Baton Rouge refinery fire
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board began a probe on Wednesday into a large fire the day before at Exxon Mobil Corp's Baton Rouge, Louisiana, refinery that critically injured four...
View ArticleDetroit officer dies after shooting
DETROIT (WKZO-AM) -- A Wayne State University police officer with southwest Michigan ties is dead after being shot in the head while on duty.The shooting occurred while 29-year-old Collin Rose was...
View ArticleU.S. soldiers celebrate thanksgiving in a military base north of Iraq
By Hamuda Hassan and Thaier al-SudaniBAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops celebrated Thanksgiving at an Iraqi army base in Qayyara, some 60 km (38 miles) south of Mosul, where a U.S.-led coalition is...
View ArticleTwo killed, four wounded in Louisville park shootings
(Reuters) - Two people were killed and four wounded when gunfire erupted on Thursday at a park crowded with people gathered for a football tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, a police spokesman told...
View ArticleThree Thanksgiving Day protests staged in Morton County
MANDAN, N.D. (KFGO) - Thankgiving Day was no holiday for many people in Morton County as there were multiple Dakota Access Pipeline protests. The concern was great enough that authorities sent out a...
View ArticleSouth Carolina church shooting suspect found competent to stand trial
By Harriet McLeodCHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Accused white supremacist Dylann Roof is mentally competent to stand trial for the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church...
View ArticleDozens arrested at Kirkwood Mall
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFGO) - Bismarck police arrested more than 30 people when opponents of the Dakota Access oil pipeline protested at a busy mall on Black Friday.Sgt. Mark Buschena says protesters...
View ArticleGreen Party files for vote recount in Wisconsin: state election commission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The organization behind the presidential campaign for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, along with one other group, on Friday filed a petition with the Wisconsin Elections...
View ArticleWashington zoo's panda cub recovering after emergency surgery
By Gina Cherelus(Reuters) - Bei Bei, a giant panda cub who is a star attraction at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., was in stable condition on Friday after emergency surgery to...
View ArticleVenezuela's Maduro calls nephews' drug conviction 'U.S. imperialism'
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday that the United States convicted his wife's nephews on drug charges last week to weaken his leftist government.Two nephews of...
View ArticleFour dead in Alaska hotel room, police probe as murder-suicide
(Reuters) - Four people, including a 8-week-old girl, have been found shot to death in an Alaska hotel room in what authorities are investigating as a murder-suicide, police said.Fairbanks police were...
View ArticleThree California mosques receive hateful letters mentioning Trump
By Alex DobuzinskisLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hateful letters sent anonymously to three mosques in California with a warning that President-elect Donald Trump would "cleanse" the United States of Muslims...
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