Lockheed wins $424 million contract for radar emitter simulation products:...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp has won a $424 million U.S. defense contract for threat radar emitter simulations products and services, and other simulation equipment, the Pentagon said on...
View ArticleMaryland gunman kills woman, wounds man offering aid at high school
By Eric M. Johnson(Reuters) - A woman was fatally shot on the grounds of a Maryland high school on Thursday during a "domestic-related" altercation with a man who left the scene after also shooting a...
View ArticleFormer Texas policeman released after serving 21 years for rape
By Marice RichterFORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - A former Fort Worth police officer who had served 21 years of a life sentence after being convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl was released from prison...
View ArticleWatchdog probes alleged 'profiling' of Somalis at Minneapolis TSA office
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Homeland Security Department watchdog unit is investigating alleged "profiling" of Somali-Americans by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Minneapolis, the...
View ArticleU.S. counter-spy chief cuffs driver who rammed restaurant
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maybe only in the Washington area could you find the U.S. counterintelligence chief handcuffing a suspect after his lunch is interrupted by a car ramming into his restaurant and...
View ArticlePlanning officials hear outline for higher White House fence
By Ian SimpsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A proposal for a higher, stronger White House fence was presented to Washington planning officials on Thursday in a bid to halt fence-jumping security breaches at...
View ArticleFor Derby hopefuls, owning horse like owning team
By Lindsey Buhrmann(Reuters) - For many racehorse owners, it's the experience, more so than making money, that attracted them to the Sport of Kings but they face a tough task to get into the elite...
View ArticlePediatrics association welcomes FDA's e-cig oversight
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - E-cigarettes, cigars and hookahs will be regulated in the same way the government treats cigarettes and smokeless tobacco.Dr. Karen Wilson with the American Academy of...
View ArticlePaterno son denies new allegations about his late father in Sandusky case
By Barbara Goldberg(Reuters) - A son of the late Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno on Friday dismissed as "bunk" a new court document alleging his father knew that his assistant Jerry Sandusky...
View ArticleOfficer arrested after three killed in Washington-area shooting spree
By Ian SimpsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police on Friday arrested a federal officer suspected in a two-day shooting rampage in the Washington suburbs that killed his wife and two apparent strangers and...
View ArticleMother charged for abusing toddlers who were found tied up in Texas backyard
By Jim ForsythAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The mother of two children, aged 2 and 3, who were found chained in the backyard of a neighbor's home in San Antonio last week was charged with child abuse on...
View ArticleObama: new tax rule will fight corruption, help economy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday a long-delayed rule requiring the financial industry to identify the real owners of companies will help fight corruption and tax...
View ArticleObama urges scrutiny of Trump's record: 'This is not entertainment'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged the U.S. media and American public on Friday to examine the "long record" of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and not get distracted by...
View ArticleU.S. anti-hunger group uses playful campaign to fool and educate
By Sebastien MaloNEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Full-page advertisements are popping up in major U.S. newspapers offering to pick up Americans' dinner leftovers and deliver them to the needy,...
View ArticleFlorida mom, shot by four-year-old, won't face charges over gun
By Letitia SteinTAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida mother agreed to store her gun more safely and take other steps to avoid criminal charges after her four-year-old son picked up the gun she kept in her...
View ArticleMachinist union recommends strike at Triumph over contract offer
By Alwyn ScottSEATTLE (Reuters) - The union representing machinists at a Triumph Group Inc factory in Washington state has scheduled a strike vote for Monday and is recommending that its 400 members...
View ArticleRetired circus elephants begin new life at Florida
POLK CITY, Fl. - After a long tradition of entertaining crowds as part of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus the last 11 elephants that toured with "The Greatest Show on Earth" will be...
View ArticleNew Mexico man ordered held in jail awaiting child murder trial
By Alex Dobuzinskis(Reuters) - A federal judge in Albuquerque on Friday ordered a New Mexico man who has been charged with kidnapping and murdering an 11-year-old girl on a Navajo reservation this week...
View ArticleHarvard to ban members of single-sex clubs from leadership roles
BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University will prohibit members of single-sex clubs, fraternities and sororities, from serving in leadership roles beginning in the fall of 2017 in an effort to discourage...
View ArticleNew York man found in bay wearing cement shoes was asphyxiated
By Marcus E. HowardNEW YORK (Reuters) - A man whose face was wrapped in duct tape and feet encased in concrete when his body washed ashore in New York City this week was killed by asphyxia, the New...
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