New Hampshire man changes plea to guilty in teen's kidnapping
By Ted Siefer(Reuters) - A man pleaded guilty on Thursday to kidnapping a 14-year-old girl in a New Hampshire town and repeatedly raping her over a nine-month period of captivity during which local...
View ArticleFire prompts New York City to check properties under rail tracks
By Marcus E. HowardNEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will conduct regular safety checks of its properties under elevated rail tracks after a fire disrupted commuter rail service at Grand Central...
View ArticleAbout two dozen spelunkers escape flooded Kentucky cave
By Steve BittenbenderLOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) - Nearly two dozen spelunkers safely made their way out of a Kentucky cave where they had been trapped on Thursday due to flooding, police said.Kentucky...
View ArticlePittsburgh man gets life term for killings of Iowa lawmaker's sisters
(Reuters) - A Pittsburgh man was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison in the killing of two of his neighbors, the sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker, after the jury deadlocked over whether to give...
View ArticleMother of Texas 'affluenza' teen indicted for money laundering
By Marice RichterFORT WORTH, Texas (Reuters) - The mother of a Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense after killing four people in a 2013 drunken-driving crash was formally charged with money...
View ArticleTornado warning prompts evacuation of Kansas City airport
(Reuters) - The Kansas City International Airport was evacuated briefly on Thursday over a tornado warning, airport officials said, a day after tornadoes destroyed or damaged nearly 30 homes in...
View Article'Freeway Killer' accomplice dies after attack in California prison
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - A California inmate serving two life terms as an accomplice of so-called "Freeway Killer" William Bonin has died after an attack by another prisoner, corrections...
View ArticleSecret Service punishes 41 over leak of lawmaker's data
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Forty-one U.S. Secret Service employees have been disciplined over a media leak of the personal files of a congressman who had criticized the agency's security lapses, the...
View ArticleOhio appeals U.S. court decision in favor of early voting
By Kim PalmerCLEVELAND (Reuters) - The state of Ohio filed a federal court appeal on Thursday seeking to restore a Republican-backed limit on early voting and accelerated voter-registration measures...
View ArticleTwo deputies plead not guilty in videotaped San Francisco beating
By Curtis SkinnerSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Two San Francisco-area sheriff's deputies pleaded not guilty on Thursday to felony assault charges stemming from the brutal beating of a suspect last year...
View ArticleSpellers from Texas, N.Y. state battle to tie in U.S. Spelling Bee
By Ian SimpsonNATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (Reuters) - Nihar Janga, a fifth-grader from Austin, Texas, and Jairam Hathwar, a seventh-grader from Painted Post, New York, were named co-champions of the U.S....
View ArticleTwo Washington state church fires being investigated as arson: sheriff
By Brendan O'Brien(Reuters) - Authorities in southwest Washington were investigating on Thursday fires at two churches they believe were deliberately lit over the past two days and put places of...
View ArticleCalifornia mayors ask for governor's support for highway cameras after shootings
By Brendan O'Brien(Reuters) - Five mayors in northern California on Thursday asked Governor Jerry Brown in a letter to have surveillance cameras installed on state highways in the area after a string...
View ArticleSearch of old computer files allowed by U.S. appeals court
By Jonathan Stempel(Reuters) - Federal agents acted in good faith in executing a warrant to search a Connecticut accountant's records that had been seized 2-1/2 years earlier, a U.S. appeals court...
View ArticleU.S. sailor pleads guilty to taking photos inside nuclear submarine
(Reuters) - A U.S. sailor pleaded guilty on Friday to taking photos of the inside of restricted areas of a nuclear submarine in Connecticut in 2009 and then trying to cover up his actions when...
View ArticleSuspected gunman arrested in 2015 murder of New York governor's aide
By Marcus E. HowardNEW YORK (Reuters) - A suspected gunman is under arrest in the murder of Carey Gabay, an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo who was shot before the 2015 West Indian Day parade in...
View ArticleDetails of sinking of El Faro cargo ship emerge from U.S. probe
By Letitia SteinTAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. investigators on Friday concluded two weeks of hearings into the sinking of cargo ship El Faro in a hurricane last fall that included reports the vessel had...
View ArticleBathroom lawsuit could send transgender rights to Supreme Court
By Daniel Wiessner and Daniel Trotta(Reuters) - A lawsuit brought by Texas and other states against the Obama administration's policy on bathroom access may move the United States closer to a...
View ArticleU.S. judge sentences Vietnamese man to 40 years for al Qaeda affiliate support
By Nate RaymondNEW YORK (Reuters) - A Vietnamese-born man who U.S. authorities say was instructed by a top figure with al Qaeda's Yemen affiliate to carry out a suicide attack at London's Heathrow...
View ArticleTommee Tippee Sippee Cups Recalled
UNDATED (WTAQ) - More than three million Tommee Tippee Sippee spill-proof cups were recalled Friday.The Consumer Product Safety Commission says 5 types of cups that are recalled include: First Sips...
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