U.S. agency probes blimp emergency landing in Philadelphia neighborhood
(Reuters) - The emergency landing of a blimp near a highway in a Philadelphia neighborhood is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency official said on Saturday.The blimp...
View ArticleDJ Calvin Harris suffers minor injuries in Los Angeles crash
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Scottish musician Calvin Harris, one of the world's top earning DJs, sustained minor injuries in a car crash in Los Angeles and was taken by ambulance to a hospital, police said...
View ArticleNY police apprehend suspect in death of woman seen on dolly in Staten Island
(Reuters) - New York police took a suspect into custody on Saturday in connection with the death of a woman whose body was seen the day before being wheeled on a dolly in the Staten Island borough,...
View ArticleWorld's second-oldest female Bornean orangutan dies at Illinois zoo
(Reuters) - A 54-year-old orangutan at the Brookfield Zoo outside Chicago has been euthanized due to worsening health problems, after becoming the second oldest female Bornean orangutan known to exist...
View ArticleSolar plane lands in Dayton, Ohio on latest leg of round-the-world flight
By Chris Michaud(Reuters) - An experimental airplane powered solely by energy from the sun landed in Ohio on Saturday night on the latest leg of its historic bid by pilots and developers to fly around...
View ArticleMassachusetts policeman slain, suspect killed after manhunt
(Reuters) - A central Massachusetts police officer was shot to death during a traffic stop early on Sunday, prompting an exhaustive manhunt that ended when the suspect was killed by officers who found...
View ArticleFormer Megadeth drummer dies after collapsing during Los Angeles gig
By Suzannah Gonzales(Reuters) - Nick Menza, a former drummer for the heavy metal band Megadeth, died at age 51 after collapsing on stage at a Los Angeles club late on Saturday, a family spokesman said...
View ArticleWoman attacked by shark off Florida coast, swims to shore: report
(Reuters) - A woman was attacked by a shark off the Florida coast on Sunday, swimming back to shore for help with a bite in her thigh, ABC News reported.Mary Marcus, 57, was listed in stable condition...
View ArticleBear bites one of two men who broke into North Dakota zoo, police say
(Reuters) - One of two men who broke into a zoo in North Dakota got his hand bitten by a brown bear after sticking his arm through the bars of the animal's enclosure, police said on Sunday.Police in...
View ArticleU.S. states on Zika's frontline see big gaps in funding, expertise
By Julie Steenhuysen(Reuters) - In Mississippi, a small team of entomologists has begun the first survey of mosquito populations in decades. Experts do not believe the kind of mosquitoes most likely to...
View ArticleUber deal shows divide in labor's drive for role in 'gig economy'
By Daniel Wiessner and Dan Levine(Reuters) - The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers trumpeted an agreement reached earlier this month to represent New York Uber drivers,...
View ArticleTwenty injured in southern California bus accident
(Reuters) - Twenty people were injured when the bus carrying them rolled over on a highway in southern California on Sunday, authorities said.The bus was part of a convoy taking about 200 people from a...
View ArticleMaryland judge to render verdict in Freddie Gray death trial
(Reuters) - A Maryland judge on Monday will hand down his verdict on a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, an incident that triggered protests and rioting in...
View ArticleVirginia GOP sues governor over restoring voting rights to felons
By Gary RobertsonRICHMOND (Reuters) - Virginia Republicans on Monday sued to nullify Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe’s order restoring voting rights to 206,000 felons, a move that could affect the...
View ArticleMidAmerican Energy reaches new heights in Iowa
ADAMS COUNTY, IA (KELO-AM) MidAmerican Energy says it's built the largest land-based wind turbine in the United States.The concrete wind turbine at MidAmerican's wind farm in Adams County, Iowa, is...
View ArticleNorth Korean envoy rejects Trump overture to meet leader
By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a "kind of propaganda or advertisement" in his election...
View ArticleAG Jackley still questions if Indian pot is not
UNDATED (KELO-AM) It has been many, many months since the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation near Flandreau South Dakota announced that it had destroyed its $1 million marijuana crop. State Attorney...
View ArticleKansas man pleads guilty to helping with foiled bomb plot at U.S. base
(Reuters) - A man accused of assisting in a foiled bomb plot at a Kansas military base as part of what prosecutors said was an attempt to demonstrate support of the Islamic State militant group pleaded...
View ArticleOn Ivy League campuses, military brass find a warmer welcome
By Yeganeh TorbatiNEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters) - As a young chemistry professor at Yale University in 1969, Gary Haller voted to boot the U.S. military's Reserve Officers' Training Corps program off the...
View ArticleHonduran family seeks dismissal of U.S. money laundering case
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - Two members of a prominent Honduran family accused by U.S. authorities of engaging in a decade-long money laundering scheme are seeking the dismissal of the charges...
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