Charleston airport evacuated for two hours over suspicious laptop
(Reuters) – South Carolina’s Charleston International Airport was evacuated for about two hours before dawn on Friday after screeners found a suspicious package that turned out to be a laptop computer, the airport’s top official said.
Groundhog Phil predicts more cold weather, Chuck says spring is coming
(Reuters) – Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-forecasting groundhog, emerged from his burrow in Pennsylvania on Friday, saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter, despite his rival Staten Island Chuck in New York predicting an early spring.
Charleston airport reopens after evacuation over package
(Reuters) – South Carolina’s Charleston International Airport was evacuated early on Friday morning after police said they found and examined a suspicious package, but it reopened less than two hours later.
Charleston airport evacuated after suspicious package found, police say
(Reuters) – Charleston International Airport in South Carolina was evacuated on Friday after a suspicious package was found at the airport, police said.
More victims of ex-USA Gymnastics doctor to testify as scandal widens
(Reuters) – Dozens of victims of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar are expected to detail their traumatic ordeals in a Michigan courtroom on Friday, as fallout from the sex abuse scandal widens.
Thousands await U.S. groundhog Punxsutawney Phil’s spring prediction
(Reuters) – After record-breaking freezing temperatures across North America and an unusually powerful winter storm known as a “bomb cyclone,” one critter’s annual weather prediction might be the last hope for those itching for an early spring.
A tale of two Guantanamos
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) – On the eastern edge of Cuba, lies the tale of two cities, Guantanamo the city and Guantanamo the U.S. naval base. Both are testament to the gulf between the two countries and their cultures.
Helicopter crash survivor to receive record $100 million pretrial settlement: lawyer
DENVER (Reuters) – A former Colorado flight nurse who survived a helicopter ambulance crash with horrific burns over 90 percent of his body will receive a record $100 million cash settlement from the maker and operator of the aircraft, his lawyer said …
Texas executes man for murdering daughters in killings wife heard on phone
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A man who killed his two young daughters at his Dallas apartment in 2001 while the girls’ mother listened on the phone and heard the fatal gunshots and her children’s screams, was executed in Texas on Thursday, prisons officia…
Girl, 12, arrested in shooting that wounds five at Los Angeles school
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Five people were wounded, including a student shot in the head, when a gun went off in a Los Angeles middle school classroom on Thursday, and a 12-year-old girl was taken into custody, police said.
