New Jersey citizen’s ‘Bridgegate’ complaint against Christie can proceed: judge
PRINCETON, N.J. (Reuters) – A citizen’s complaint against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie related to the “Bridgegate” lane-closure scandal can move forward, a judge ruled on Thursday, referring the case to state prosecutors to consider possible crim…
Dylan the odd man out as U.S.-based foreigners take most 2016 Nobels
OSLO (Reuters) – Scientists based in the United States won the lion’s share of this year’s Nobel prizes in science and economics but all of them were immigrants, making literature laureate Bob Dylan the only U.S.-born winner of 2016.
Drownings push hurricane death toll to 19 in flooded North Carolina
KINSTON, N.C. (Reuters) – Rivers swollen by rainfall from Hurricane Matthew rose dangerously higher in North Carolina on Wednesday, prompting officials to go door to door urging residents to leave as a wide swath of the state faced its worst flooding i…
Two Boston policemen wounded in gunfight, gunman shot dead
(Reuters) – Two Boston policemen were in critical condition early on Thursday after they were shot in a gunfight with a man who was shot dead by other police officers, police said.
Survey points to higher U.S. birth rate in future: CDC
(Reuters) – More U.S. women expect to have children some time in the future than they did in 2002, according to a federal study released on Thursday, which could point to a higher U.S. birth rate.
Accused killer of two California police officers charged with murder
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) – The man accused of fatally shooting two police officers and wounding a third in Palm Springs, California, over the weekend was formally charged on Wednesday with murder and attempted murder in what prosecutors described as…
Parolee who robbed Wyoming bank to return to prison gets 6-years
(Reuters) – A transgender parolee who said she robbed a Wyoming bank last summer so she would be sent back to prison was sentenced to six years in a federal women’s lockup on Wednesday, prosecutors said.
Coast Guard responds to diesel spill on Intracoastal Waterway, Texas
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday about 5,000 gallons of low sulfur diesel fuel spilled into the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) near Port Isabel, Texas, on Tuesday.
Connecticut plane crash likely deliberate, motive unclear: officials
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal investigators on Wednesday were trying to determine why a Jordanian flight student may have deliberately crashed a small plane in East Hartford, Connecticut, killing himself and badly injuring an instructor but n…
U.S. judge allows confessions by Venezuela first lady’s nephews
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday declined to throw out the alleged confessions from two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady, ruling they knew what they were doing when they spoke to U.S. agents after their arrest on narcotics charges.
