Wrestler 'incompetent' to stand trial in 1983 Pennsylvania murder: expert
By David DeKokALLENTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - A Harvard psychologist testified on Friday that former professional wrestler Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka was incompetent to stand trial in the 1983 death of his...
View ArticleTop U.S. auctioneers refused to sell gun from Trayvon Martin shooting
By Daniel TrottaNEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of America's leading auctioneers of guns said they refused on ethical grounds to handle the sale of the 9 mm pistol that George Zimmerman used to kill unarmed...
View ArticleThree killed in California when Amtrak train slams pickup
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Three people were killed on Friday when an Amtrak train slammed into their pickup truck near Fresno, the California Highway Patrol said.CHP Officer Javier Ruvalcaba said...
View ArticleConnecticut lawmakers vote to close $1 billion budget hole
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Connecticut's lawmakers moved to close a projected budget deficit of nearly $1 billion on Friday, the last hurdle for a spending plan that now passes to the governor for signing...
View ArticleSorority apologizes for racist T-shirt made by chapter in Alabama
By Brendan O'Brien(Reuters) - A sorority in Alabama apologized on Friday for a T-shirt that it made depicting a racially offensive image of an African-American person eating a piece of watermelon....
View ArticleU.S. Coast Guard searching for woman who fell overboard from cruise ship off...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said it was searching for a woman who is believed to have fallen overboard on Friday from the Carnival Liberty cruise ship off the coast of Galveston, Texas. The cruise...
View ArticleStolen World War One cannon returned to California veterans hall
By Brendan O'Brien(Reuters) - A Northern California man has returned a stolen World War One-era cannon that he had bought without knowing it had been taken from a local veteran's hall, police said on...
View ArticleSuspect killed, police wounded in Los Angeles shoot-out: media
(Reuters) - Two Los Angeles police officers were wounded in a shootout in Los Angeles in which an armed suspect was shot and killed, local media reported. The shooting began after the police chased the...
View ArticleLimo goes up in flames but students still find their way to the prom
(Reuters) - A group of Boston-area high school students have an indelible prom night memory after their limousine caught on fire on the way to the dance."10 young adults on the way to the Prom had to...
View ArticleChicago mayor to replace police review board with more independent watchdog
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to scrap a police review board and replace it with a more independent and better-funded watchdog to investigate police shootings and other...
View ArticleTexas rollover bus crash kills eight, injures dozens
(Reuters) - Eight people were killed and about 40 others were injured when a charter bus rolled over on a Texas highway on Saturday morning, a state official said.There were no other vehicles involved...
View ArticleClimate activists in New York, Washington state protest fossil fuels
(Reuters) - Hundreds of climate change activists in Washington state and New York mobilized on Saturday as part of a global protest against fossil fuels, event organizers said.The so-called Break Free...
View ArticleFacebook's Sandberg speaks about husband's death, 'brutality of loss'
BERKELEY, Calif (Reuters) - Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg spoke publicly for the first time on Saturday about what she has learned from the sudden death of her husband a year ago, during a...
View ArticleStunt pilot dies in fiery Georgia air show crash
(Reuters) - A stunt pilot died on Saturday when his plane crashed to the ground in a fiery ball at an air show at the DeKalb Peachtree Airport in Georgia, video taken by spectators showed.The pilot was...
View ArticleU.S. investigators probing Texas bus crash that killed eight
(Reuters) - U.S. investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) were dispatched to Texas on Sunday to investigate a charter bus crash that killed eight people and injured 44 on...
View ArticleTrump aide dismisses audio tape as Democrats raise character issue
By Ginger Gibson and David LawderWASHINGTON, 2016 - A top aide to Donald Trump said on Sunday he did not believe the Republican presidential front-runner posed as his own spokesman to brag about his...
View ArticleDozens arrested in Washington state environmental protest
By Kevin Murphy(Reuters) - Dozens of people were arrested in Washington state on Sunday, two days after protesters set up a blockade on railroad tracks leading to a pair of oil refineries as part of a...
View ArticleFacebook's Zuckerberg to meet conservatives on political bias flap
(Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet this week with prominent conservatives in the media, a spokesman said on Sunday, to address allegations of political bias at the popular...
View ArticleTrump, Biden attend same Pennsylvania college graduation
(Reuters) - Presidential politics crept into the graduation ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday, with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic Vice President Joe...
View ArticleCoast Guard calls off search for passenger missing from cruise ship off Texas
(Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday it had called off its search for a woman believed to have fallen overboard from the Carnival Liberty cruise ship off the coast of Galveston, Texas, two...
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