Mississippi schools back away from adopting U.S. transgender policy
By Letitia Stein(Reuters) - Mississippi's schools chief backed away on Wednesday from federal guidance to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice amid pushback from state...
View ArticlePennsylvania teen hit with new Islamic State-related charges
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania teenager indicted for supporting Islamic State was hit with fresh terrorism charges on Wednesday, as U.S. prosecutors accused him of posting online the...
View ArticleTexas man pleads guilty to sexually abusing orphan boys in Malawi
By Jon HerskovitzAUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Texas man who managed an orphanage in Malawi pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Wednesday to sexually abusing children in his care and giving some of them...
View ArticleMore than 25,000 Madoff victims now eligible for $4 billion fund
By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - The overseer of a $4 billion U.S. Department of Justice fund for victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme said he expected to recommend payouts for at least...
View ArticleLaunching the power of twins in Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls, SD (KELO-AM) Twin doctors at Avera Health in Sioux Falls were the first to join South Dakota's first and only twins register.Drs. Jen and Kim McKay led the way in this new effort at the...
View ArticleBlack bear captured near junior high school in California
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A black bear wandered on sidewalks and climbed trees on Wednesday in the Southern California city of Rancho Cucamonga, causing a scare at a nearby junior high school, police...
View ArticleChicago to pay $3.2 million to settle two fatal police shooting cases
By Justin MaddenChicago (Reuters) - Chicago on Wednesday agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle cases where a black man and a Hispanic man were each fatally shot by police officers who were part of a...
View ArticleKansas man who killed four sentenced to death
(Reuters) - A man convicted of the 2013 killings of four people including a mother and her 18-month-old daughter on a Kansas farm, was sentenced to death on Wednesday, according to court documents.A...
View ArticleNAACP sues Michigan, governor over Flint's lead-contaminated water
DETROIT (Reuters) - The NAACP has filed a federal lawsuit against Michigan and its governor on behalf of the residents and businesses in Flint, where high levels of lead in the drinking water has...
View ArticleColorado babysitter charged in bank robbery with kids in car
(Reuters) - Prosecutors on Wednesday charged a woman with robbing a drive-through bank in a small Colorado town by falsely claiming that a man in her car threatened to harm the two children in her care...
View ArticleNew York City police officers disciplined in ongoing corruption probe
By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - A high-ranking New York City police commander became the latest officer to face discipline as a result of a wide-ranging federal corruption probe that stretches from...
View ArticleCalifornia ends mandatory water conservation rules as drought eases
By Sharon BernsteinSACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California moved on Wednesday to dramatically roll back strict mandatory water conservation rules imposed at the height of the state's multi-year...
View ArticlePost-it note art war engulfs ad agencies on New York City street
By Gina CherelusNEW YORK (Reuters) - A conversation conducted using sticky Post-it notes on the windows of two offices in Lower Manhattan has delighted passersby and drawn a number of neighboring...
View ArticleDemocrats chide Sanders after Nevada mutiny
WASHINGTON | BY DOINA CHIACU AND GINGER GIBSONInfighting dogged the Democrats on Wednesday as Bernie Sanders' campaign accused party leaders of bias against him and many Democrats urged Sanders to keep...
View ArticleU.S. Air Force bomber crashes in Guam, crew of seven safe
(Reuters) - A B-52H Stratofortress bomber aircraft crashed on Wednesday at a U.S. Air Force base in Guam, but all seven crew members survived, military officials said.All seven crew members safely made...
View ArticleColorado movie massacre lawsuit goes to the jury
By Keith CoffmanCENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - The management of a Colorado movie theater where 12 patrons were slain in a 2012 shooting rampage could never have foreseen, nor safeguarded against, such...
View ArticleTheranos voids two years of Edison test results: WSJ
(Reuters) - Blood-testing firm Theranos Inc notified the U.S. federal health regulators that it voided results from its Edison blood-testing devices for two years, the Wall Street Journal reported on...
View ArticleEgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo missing with 66 on board
By Lin Noueihed and Eric KnechtCAIRO (Reuters) - An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's national...
View ArticleJohnson Writes FDA On E-Cig Regulation
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WSAU) -- A Wisconsin U.S. senator is getting involved in the battle over e-cigarette regulation.Ron Johnson sent a letter to the director of the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday...
View ArticleU.S. bill proposed to reform Native American health agency
By Mimi Dwyer(Reuters) - Two Republican Senators introduced a bill on Thursday aimed at improving the Indian Health Service, the embattled federal agency that provides healthcare to Native Americans on...
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