New York Met cancels opera after suspected cremated ashes sprinkled in orchestra pit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s Metropolitan Opera canceled its Saturday afternoon performance of “Guillaume Tell” after an audience member sprinkled an unidentified powder, which police believe was cremated ashes, into the orchestra pit.
Tribe vows to fight North Dakota pipeline through winter
CANNON BALL, N.D. (Reuters) – Native American leaders vowed on Saturday to protest through the winter against a North Dakota oil pipeline they say threatens water resources and sacred lands, and are weighing lawsuits over police treatment of arrested p…
American Airlines plane engine flung debris in rare failure
(Reuters) – An American Airlines jet engine that failed seconds before takeoff in a fiery runway accident at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport flung broken turbine parts as far as half a mile from the scene, a federal investigator said on Saturda…
Miami baseball star Fernandez was drunk, had cocaine in system at fatal crash
(Reuters) – Miami Marlins star Jose Fernandez, a dominant pro baseball pitcher and hero in Miami’s Cuban community, was legally drunk and had cocaine in his system when he was killed in a boat crash in late September, an autopsy and toxicology report r…
FedEx plane catches fire at airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
(Reuters) – The landing gear of a FedEx Corp. DC-10 cargo plane collapsed on Friday at the main airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, causing a fire that was quickly extinguished, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.
American Airlines jet catches fire on takeoff at Chicago airport
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The engine of an American Airlines Group Inc jet caught fire seconds from takeoff at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Friday, prompting the crew to abort its departure and evacuate passengers via emergency chutes, authoriti…
Three in Florida, Virginia charged with voter fraud
(Reuters) – Officials in Florida and Virginia filed voter fraud charges against three people in apparently unrelated cases on Friday, just 11 days before American voters cast ballots in the hotly contested presidential race.
Honduras arrests man linked to Venezuela drug probe in U.S.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police on Friday arrested a man allegedly linked to two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady who have been charged with drug trafficking in the United States, an official said.
DNA cited to clear JonBenet Ramsey family in murder in question: report
DENVER (Reuters) – The DNA analysis that prompted a Colorado prosecutor to exonerate the family of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey in her 1996 murder was not as clear cut as she portrayed it at the time, a newspaper reported on Friday.
Oklahoma charges man suspected of double murder, attempted decapitation
(Reuters) – Oklahoma County prosecutors filed first degree murder charges on Friday against a man who has been on the run for nearly a week after being suspected of killing two relatives and trying to decapitate them.
