Powerful spring storm roars across U.S. midsection
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) – A powerful spring storm swept across the U.S. Midwest and Plains on Saturday, bringing heavy snow and high winds that halted travel and disrupted power supplies following tornadoes that injured four people in the south of the coun…
Forman, Oscar-winning director of ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ and ‘Amadeus’, dies at 86
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who found fame in Hollywood with the Oscar-winning classics “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has died at the age of 86.
Oscar-winning director Forman dies at 86
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Milos Forman, the Czech-born movie director who found fame in Hollywood with the Oscar-winning classics “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Amadeus,” has died at the age of 86, Czech news agency CTK reported on Saturday.
U.S. Coast Guard restricts traffic in Ohio River due to sunken vessel
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard said on Friday a towing vessel with a maximum potential of 1,048 gallons of diesel aboard had sunk in the Ohio River and it issued a waterway restriction between mile marker 979 and mile marker 981.
Trump to lift legal threat to states that permit marijuana use
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will lift his administration’s plans for a possible crackdown on states that have legalized marijuana after talks with a Colorado senator, the White House said on Friday, an action that undercuts U.S. Attor…
Drunken driving found in family’s fatal cliff-side California wreck
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The woman behind the wheel of an SUV that careened off a coastal roadside cliff in Northern California last month, killing her and seven family members, was driving drunk at the time, police said on Friday.
Trump’s personal lawyer attacked by U.S. prosecutor over privacy claim
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. prosecutor on Friday attacked a claim by President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen that many of the materials seized this week in FBI raids on Cohen’s office and home as part of a criminal investigation…
U.S. agency seeks information on Honda Odyssey asphyxiation death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it is in contact with local authorities and Honda Motor Co in an effort to learn more about the death of a Ohio high school student who died of asphyxiation afte…
U.S. Coast Guard reopens Mississippi River near New Orleans
(Reuters) – The United States Coast Guard said on Friday it reopened the Mississippi River near New Orleans after it was closed due to an oil spill on Thursday.
Turkish banker in U.S. case on Iran sanctions: Unfair to single me out
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for a Turkish banker convicted of helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions told a Manhattan federal judge on Friday it would be unfair to subject their client to a long prison stay, given the “leniency” afforded many large banks a…
